Rarely have we seen beer-making king Anheuser-Busch hit back so hard against a news piece, says the St. Louis Dispatch on its Lager Heads blog:"We wonder . . . is this part of the company’s stated commitment to "communicate in a thorough and timely manner"? If so, reporters might want to gird up their loins for battle. Or at least for criticism."
More from the post: "The crux of the issue, so far as we can tell, is a trip by 14 Anheuser-Busch managers to meetings and training events at company property at Lake of the Ozarks. The trips, it seems, are cast in the KSDK-TV piece as an example of especially ill-timed corporate greed. A-B strongly objects to that characterization."
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The Lake of the Ozarks is perhaps 120 miles from St. Louis, if that far. Going to a company retreat at a company complex within driving distance of headquarters hardly strikes me as corporate greed. That's WAY short of sending a few hundred people to Vegas.
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