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What sickens me , is that even though it is mentioned on top of this article that it is a press release, the fact that it is in yahoo finance seems to present it as a legitimate article (however legitimate an article on yahoo finance can be ).
The fact that the article seems to be written by businesswire also adds legitimacy to the "article" as the name of businesswire seems to sound like that of a real newsservice . A slight look at businesswire.com shows me that all it is is a hired gun p.r. (public relations, not puertorican) firm that issued and distributed this press release for its client , fed ex. I don't think most people reading this piece of garbage are going to look that deep. That much being said, this is the internet and people will just go on to the next article, video, piece of porn, email from relatives, and forget all about it. They may not even read the whole thing as there is not a single mention of Myley Cyprus in the opening paragraphs.
One of my emails is * so I went to yahoo and didn't see this "article" on the main page. I then moved my cursor to the "yahoo finance" section and hit click and was taken to that page. I looked all around and did not see any link, reference , to the article or the article itself. And I was looking hard. So I doubt other people are going to view this article. Fed ex and businesswire might have more eyes viewing this article if they had placed it in the local pennysavers throughout the country.
Also notice, if you go to the yahoo link that cheryl provided, right above the title of the article, is a feedback button that is requesting your comments about the reformatted yahoo finance section. I clicked and sent back a comment to yahoo stating that it is wrong to be an outlet for a press release. However, I also fear the more that we access this article, the more likely it is that the article will be promoted out of the depths of obscurity and hence be featured more prominently than it is now .