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Re: jjsmith post# 69152

Thursday, 09/09/2010 11:18:34 PM

Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:18:34 PM

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I love how they quoted my United Nations find. I posted that long before JBI ever mentioned it publically. How funny. I can't tell ya how many times bordynuik has referenced my posts in his articles.



How can you be so audacious? Do you seriously contend that, because a news article referenced a United Nations report in connection with JBI, the CEO of JBI necessarily must have read an internet message board post regarding the report, then conveyed that message board post to the media, which in turn referenced the report in an article on JBI? Does that mean that anytime one posts about a publicly available document on an internet message board, and the media subsequently references the same document in an article concerning a company relevant to such report, it is reasonable to conclude that the CEO of the subject company discovered the report by scouring internet message boards, and then conveyed the message to the media?

Although I don't doubt that substantive message board posts find their way to corporate offices, including those at JBI, I have trouble comprehending why an internet poster should be automatically credited with bringing the findings of a public organization to the attention of a corporation simply because the poster mentioned the information on the internet before the company mentioned it publicly (or the media on the company's behalf, as the case may be). There was no mention of this or any other message board in the article, and, given the company's focus on the environment and advances in technology, I would think the company would be in close contact with governmental bodies and some environmental organizations that attribute to the company's knowledge base.

For whatever it is worth, a shareholder in my presence made a comment to the CEO regarding an apparent topic du jure of the message board crowd during the weekend of the AGM. The CEO (JB)stated that he does not pay attention to the message boards, to which I responded that he had chosen a wise approach. I don't dismiss the value of internet circles for keeping up to date on recent developments (for example, I found the article at issue by perusing the boards), but I think it goes without saying that a CEO's time is best spent elsewhere.