“This morning, BuzzFeed reported on a dinner where an Uber executive suggested spending a million dollars on opposition research on journalists. He even fingered a primary target: the prominent tech writer Sarah Lacy, who has reported on the company’s sexist practices at PandoDaily.
It is bad, very bad, and raises the question of whether Uber’s antagonizing of journalists, drivers, riders, city councils, taxi commissions, and on and on might finally start to hurt its bottom line. (If I were a Lyft executive, I would consider sending the Uber guy in question an Edible Arrangement via pink-mustachioed car.)” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/acting-like-jerks-not-quite-working-out-for-uber.html