Scott Sexton, a columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal, writes Tuesday about the difficulty one of the paper’s reporters had in getting the exact number of employees work at a Dell plant in the area after layoffs were announced.
“Ask a simple question, and sometimes you get an idiotic answer.
“‘Which is the correct number for Dell employees at the Forsyth plant?’ Richard Craver, a business reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, asked a corporate spokesmen in an e-mail Friday.
“‘We are no longer providing specific site-employment totals,’ replied Dell flack David Frink.
“Pressed a second time, Frink shot this back: ‘We are not engaging in additional dialogue on this subject.'”
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