General Motors PR VP Fails To Get Rebuttal To Friedman Published in NYT, Finds 'Rubbish' Banned
Brian Akre, a rep for General Motors, says he’s spent the last week trying to get a letter from GM corporate communications VP Steven Harris — in response to an op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman which likened GM to a “crack dealer” in its dealings of SUVs to Americans — published in the New York Times. He failed.
Writes Akre on GM’s FYI blog:
You’d think it would be relatively easy to get a letter from a GM vice president published in the Times after GM’s reputation was so unfairly questioned.
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