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IT Foxconn Drops Lawsuit Against Two Chinese Journalists
Tuan Nguyen (Blog) - September 4, 2006 8:27 AM

15 comment(s) - last by Rage187.. on Sep 5 at 11:17 AM

Response to bad press introduced more bad press

Over the weekend, Foxconn decided to drop its lawsuit against two Chinese journalists that originally published a report on Foxconn's employee treatment. The report caught wind and almost immediately became one of the top headlines across the Web. The news was so great that Apple decided to launch a formal probe into Foxconn.

Wang You and his editor Weng Bao from China Business News was sued by Foxconn several weeks ago. Foxconn claimed that the report heavily damaged its reputation in the industry, causing significant losses. Consequently, Foxconn decided to sue both Wang You and Weng Bao for nearly $3.77 million USD.

The lawsuit provoked uproar in the journalism community and Foxconn was seen as arrogant by a large number of press-bodies. Reporters Without Borders ended up saying that it condemned Foxconn for taking such actions against the two reporters. Foxconn has apologized to China Business News and in return the news firm apologized to Foxconn for the "trouble" that the report caused.

Apple's formal investigation however, stated that there were problematic areas of Foxconn's business facilities that needed to be addressed.

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re:spelling

By thetrial on 9/4/2006 1:48:11 PM , Rating: 1

Why is it that some people feel it necessary to go through every article and point out spelling errors? Wouldn't most people rather read intelligent, and insightful comments about the article instead of spelling corrections? Its either that or people like Tobrien have inadequate size pieces of their anatomy and when the feel like they saved the day from spelling errors they don't feel inadequate. By the way that still doesn't get you a girlfriend.

RE: re:spelling

By PrinceGaz on 9/4/2006 1:55:51 PM , Rating: 1

If nobody corrects your errors, you are likely to go on making the same errors in future.

By the way, you made one error I noticed (the instead of they), but that was probably just a typing error.

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RE: re:spelling

By thetrial on 9/4/06, Rating: 0

RE: re:spelling

By SakuraChan on 9/4/2006 3:50:55 PM , Rating: 1

:Dhihi.... funny ^__^

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RE: re:spelling

By rushfan2006 on 9/5/2006 9:18:43 AM , Rating: 2

This issue is brought up a lot on these boards. I basically think its the coupling of a) the frequency and b) the staff at dailytech never seem to learn that makes it more an annoyance than any of the excuses that its a good thing to point out mistakes.

If it was once in a while -- fine, ok...understood. But its every article, or just about. I think the guy who was saying it distracts from comments related to the context of the story made a valid point. Not only that when its the same people picking out the errors and posting about it -- at least in my POV it makes those people look really absurd, boring and extremely anal and I wonder how they spend their free time...perhaps collecting sand samples from the beach to compare the differences in each grain?

Oh well --- ok....start correcting my spelling and tipos wright know...;)

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RE: re:spelling

By rushfan2006 on 9/5/2006 9:23:20 AM , Rating: 2

4got too + that tis sight is unineek inn that its thee ownly 1 that eye visit that actualee korrects the errors of the staff membrs.

In other wurds gooto a professional site and see how they put up with this stuff....its not like here that's for sure.

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RE: re:spelling

By Loc13 on 9/5/2006 1:04:31 AM , Rating: 2

If I were to write and publish an article on a website where hundreds of people visit daily, I would want to make sure that my article is free from spelling and grammar errors. Because those errors give people a bad impression about the author and the website. I'm sure the author would appreciate it each time someone points out a typo or mispelled word. It's called professionalism.

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RE: re:spelling

By Ksyder on 9/5/2006 2:06:19 AM , Rating: 2

IMO, the spelling errors pointed out in the comments section make the site look more stupid than the actual errors themself. If I were the site admin I would delete any posts related to typographical errors so that people would not even bother with posting them in the comments section. It sometimes seems like people have nothing better to do than post "intelligent" comments about how someone messed up spelling on a word or two in a news article. Wow how impressive.

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RE: re:spelling

By INeedCache on 9/5/2006 2:37:04 AM , Rating: 2

"If I were the site admin I would delete any posts related to typographical errors so that people would not even bother with posting them in the comments section." That would be censorship, so I'm glad you're not the site admin. Also, you don't know if they're typos or flat out misspellings. If they are misspellings, perhaps the author, and others, may learn something, like how to correctly spell a particular word. If it's a typo, maybe they'll learn to use a spell checker. Spelling mistakes in articles like these are unprofessional, and certainly uncalled for in this day of spell checkers. Fortunately, I'm glad acceptance of bad spelling and grammar is only your opinion. Besides, sometimes a spelling mistake is the most exciting part of the article.

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RE: re:spelling

By Loc13 on 9/5/2006 9:53:07 AM , Rating: 2

LOL that's because you never wrote for a newspaper I guess. An article on Dailytech is not different than an article on let's say, NewYorkTimes.

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Nice

By RyanM on 9/4/2006 10:09:52 AM , Rating: 2

The news firm had nothing to apologize for, but at least the lawsuit is off now.

RE: Nice

By bob661 on 9/4/2006 11:45:59 AM , Rating: 3

quote:
The news firm had nothing to apologize for

That's the Chinese way. I wish Americans had a similiar attitude towards each other. There would be a lot less ill feelings.

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RE: Nice

By Rage187 on 9/5/2006 11:17:40 AM , Rating: 2

We should never have to apologize for telling the truth. I for one am glad that we aren't commys.

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spelling

By tobrien on 9/4/2006 10:25:48 AM , Rating: 2

Foxconn was seen as arogant by a large number of press-bodies

should be ar r ogant. :)

lame...

By ChugokuOtaku on 9/5/2006 7:44:35 AM , Rating: 2

c'mon.... they should've just slipped some commie official a check and have them to the dirty work

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