TheStreet.com media critic Marek Fuchs writes Thursday that Amazon.com aims to get the business media to play along with its game by issuing a press release stating that its online sales this Christmas season were the highest ever.
“But look at how well Amazon plays the game, which is to say how well it orchestrates the game. In an industry (retail) that is struggling and earning a lot of appropriately negative headlines, Amazon’s mix of preening over how many individual items it sold and insertion of interesting facts about these items carries the day.
“This mix serves as good as dictation for the business media, which is willing to completely ignore how false a mark of accomplishment like a sales record is in a field like online retailing, which is growing by leaps and bounds, without any mention of a bottom line, the only thing that matters to investors.”
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