Well the whole purpose of an IR team/person is to answer shareholder questions the good as well as the bad. I am in the camp with others on the gagged TA, it is done to hide the fact that the share structure Outstanding and float is increasing, personally however I expected that to happen, I mean companies go public to sell shares of stock and use stock to pay debts, aquire things, credit lines
Its a common practice, good companies can withstand that type of thing, companies without merit can not