[Ipg-smz] Forbes dumps SIliconAngle's John Furrier for lack of disclosure

[David Needle]

https://talkingbiznews.com/1/forbes-takes-down-article-due-to-lack-of-disclosure/

Excerpt: *John Furrier, cofounder and CEO of SiliconANGLE Media who wrote
the article, **said
<http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=676103c7beda9642e3372b3e75ee56ce1ada4404e9f65045c852f56db70620c4c7265e737f0fe664d63bad7211f28c6c>he
was told it was pulled on Tuesday because he didn’t disclose that Oracle
and Amazon are customers of his company.  *

In his defense, Furrier posted the full article on Medium,
https://medium.com/@furrier/yesterday-i-had-a-story-taken-down-on-forbes-for-a-post-about-jedi-dod-33675fd89a01

which to me seems very well reported. He also includes at the end - in the
Medium version - that Amazon and Oracle are both clients. It's not clear to
me that line appeared in the original Forbes post; I suspect it wasn't. And
given the article had an Amazon vs. Oracle theme throughout, it would have
been worth noting their relationship to his company high up in the article,
not just at the end IMO. From an ethics point of view if there is concern
he was influenced by the vendors here, you'd have to assume he's in
Amazon's pocket and doesn't care about Oracle, which comes off much the
"bad guy" in the piece. I don't think that's true, but again, just disclose
everything.
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