Setty in full rant mode is a force of nature. A thing of beauty. A real joy.
Do not miss his epic takedown of the appalling Derwick fluff piece Hilary Kramer perpetrated on Forbes’s website yesterday. The offending piece is now taken down from the Forbes site but, of course, nothing is ever really deleted from the internet, and this one’s still live on the Chicago Tribune’s website.
A taste,
The issue here isn’t that she offended anyone. It’s that she supported a group of people who have made it their business to attack her fellow members of the press. That she ignored legitimate, well documented criticism. That she didn’t seek the slightest bit of outside comment. In short, she disappeared the facts that those of us in investigative reporting have dug up at our own expense, on our own time, in order to help the country she claims to love, this raped place called Venezuela. Instead of helping us expose the facts about what is happening there, she participated in a fraud, she participated in the cleansing of the reputations of a few of the thousands of people who have diverted billions of dollars from the people of Venezuela into the pockets of a very few rich bullies. If she really loves Venezuela, as I do, maybe she will make it right. Not by retracting this half-assed, poorly researched article, but by devoting much more effort to finding the truth about that place and helping the country recover.
But this snippet hardly does it justice. Just go over there and read it.
Then do your civic duty: take 30 seconds to go on Twitter and tell @Forbes what you think of @HilaryKramer.
What Wharton School did she go to? or that is a new Cereal where she got a degree? maybe she intern at ENRON? Does she even Google something about anything? What a disgrace…
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From a Kramer post of July 2013: “If you like profiting from strong trends as much as I do… “
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Apparently she had something similar with Azerbaijan.
Perhaps we could send tweets to Forbes with cc to Forbes’ competition (names?). That tends to be more effective.
Kudos to Setty and Alek.
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Other recent FORBES/Venezuela posts:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2013/09/09/water-costs-more-than-gas-in-venezuela/
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45eiil/venezuela/
and…
http://www.sibci.gob.ve/2013/05/forbes-magazine-praises-venezuelan-electoral-system/
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the chicago tribune is not available in europe it seems….
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I save it in my computer because there is no way i am forgetting. Now every time I have to here, that due diligence is better to read these people in Forbes etc…I would pull out that article!
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And she apologizes, not for getting it wrong, but for “offending” people!
Ms. Kramer,
When you have done wrong (and from both and ethical and professional perspective, you have) you must acknowledge your error AND make restitution. In this case, the best restitution is to do your original job, do the research, and expose these scumbags for what they are. Your readers, and your employer deserve nothing less.
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Where did you find her apology?
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her twitter account
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Amen to that Roy, well said. I’ll add this to fray by stating, in the event you’re reading this Ms. Kramer….”Should you have any self-worth left, redeem yourself, redeem”.
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May I suggest?
Also send the message to @FortuneMagazine and @BloombergNews, @forbes ‘ competition.
Then Forbes will feel more compelled to do something real about this.
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Useful wikipedia item: “Forbes currently allows advertisers to publish blog posts on its website alongside regular editorial content through a program called AdVoice, which accounts for more than 10 percent its digital revenue.” See: http://www.emediavitals.com/content/forbes-gives-advertisers-editorial-voice. Perhaps CC wants to give this some consideration and allow enthusiastic government marketers/admirers/adherents an opportunity to pay for their trolling?
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This unhinged right wing brand is brought you by…SUNDECOP… :P
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Nothing cleanses like unacknowledged whitewash jingoism, unless you’re onto Boraxo…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9IcbVDTVls
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But seriously, I don’t think that’s what this is about. AdVoice landing pages look like this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/
http://www.forbes.com/northwesternmutual/advoice.html
They’re for big companies and they’re clearly labeled “AdVoice” or “BrandVoice”.
Dodgy? Slightly. But not on the level of outright Palangre Kramer exhibits.
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Understood. Although it would spice things up a bit if you allowed these sorts of things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftSkj85gXc
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I gotta plug Setty here in more ways…… check out his website. Here’s one of my favorite links. He’s a very talented guy.
http://stevenbodzin.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/merluza/
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Click the photo for a photographic tour
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I am very sorry to see that blog posted to smear’s Setty’s name (same way they have been doing with Alek and I am sure they have tried with Coronel and others), however it only shows that he is ruffling some feathers, Soprano style but in much bigger scale.
And you, Hillary Kramer, shame on you. Seems to me she is getting too accustomed to trips and expensive gifts from foreigner “business” people, surely she thinks they are handsome too. I honestly don’t want to know what’s going on in there. But one thing I can tell you for sure, won’t feel sorry for her when her friendship with the gangsters go sour and she will be subpoaned on a rico case.
Very disgusting what’s happening. Kuddos to all of you behind exposing the mega billionaire corruption that is happening in the country, Coronel, Setty, Alek Boyd, Quico, Miguel, Daniel and everybody else.
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for those who are having a hard time getting to the tribune site, here is another option: http://web.archive.org/web/20130926235818/http://www.forbes.com/sites/hilarykramer/2013/09/26/changing-balance-of-power-may-unlock-venezuelas-markets/
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