SLT - "and I can't see how these endless slanging matches serve anyone or anything."
Dont know about you but the spats and slanging matches are from people passionate about their beliefs and feelings. In this case someone has quoted an article and articles like this are for the benefit of investors with scant little regard for the company or more importantly there employees and famalies.
How many times have we all seen a company spiral into bankruptcy from ill founded stories in the paper.
The spats we all read (and have to admit, I personally do think they add to the thread) are 9/10 someone defending their beliefs and the odd 10% are just rhetoric.