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The point is to give them a chance to respond. Then they can't come back later and say "why didn't you talk to us?"

It's often not that helpful, but it's standard journalistic practice to give them a chance.




Well then, lets go the other way. It would be nice if standard journalistic practice evolved to evaluating what business drones said rather than just repeating it verbatim. "When asked for comment, <company> responded but said nothing useful"




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