GreenPeace as attention whore

While green peace has done good things in the past, to fabricate information about anything is contrary to what we think is right. There are a lot of people in business and government each day that feel that they need to fabricate information, the sad side effect of this is that while they grab headlines, the end result is that the organization or group is tarnished because they were unable to tell the truth.

We are used to media spin, and we are used to calling companies to the mat for things that they do wrong, we have no problem pinging on Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple, and the rest of the lot that makes up our current technology base. Nor do we have a whole lot of problems pinging on each other when there is obvious Public Relations mischief happening.

But when Green Peace decides that it wants to be an attention whore and falsify information about the Apple Iphone, well that is below respectability. This will not hurt the Iphone, nor will this hurt Apple, this will make green peace more irrelevant in the future.

While the article, coming from the industry, is as impartial as the Greenpeace Corporation’s report, and only deals with bromine but not the rest of the allegedly hazardous substances present in the iPhone (and other cellphones) according to Greenpeace, it raises reasonable concerns over the organization’s research methodology. Source: Gizmodo

Frankly this is well beneath the level of what is good business management, they lied, lets call the pot black, Greenpeace Fabricated information about the Apple Iphone. It has enough problems, one does not need to complicate matters by inventing information to discredit someone or something. Apple has enough problems, and does enough things that tick off consumers like the Iphone price drop, and the new Ibrick features.

Greenpeace should really admit that they made stuff up, and do like all good bloggers should do, that when they are caught making a misstatement, fix the problem, and then let folks know that the problem was updated or fixed. In the mean time Greenpeace is not doing anything like that, rather they are squirming trying to hold onto an increasingly discredited report and defend the position.