Do they not _have_ a PR department?

When the RIAA decided to sue everybody and their grandmother (literally) for filesharing, we wondered how they missed seeing the public relations backlash it would cause.

When Amazon.com decided to remotely remove the e-book of George Orwell's 1984 from customer's Kindles, we wondered how they failed to recognize that the irony of the situation would make sure the incident was reported on far and wide.

And now (Edit: okay, apparently this article is from back in March, but my argument stands) when the New York Insurance Department tells a doctor that he is charging too little for his services, well given the current emphasis on health care reform, how can they not realize how this will go over in the court of public opinion.


Please note, I'm not saying anything about the legal rights or responsibilities in any of these cases, merely that they should have been able to see the writing on the wall and had some sort of plan in place to try and deal with the fallout.

Via . . . well, a lot of people

I don't know if Constantine Xinos has done anything that he can actually be legally tackled for, but this kind of attitude HAS to be addressed in some way. It seems almost inconceivable that this guy really said "I wanted that kid to lose sleep that night," to a REPORTER.