There's a bit of a brouhaha brewing at the tip of Africa. It shows how a company is using the Web to hit back at an investigative journalist who is probing its affairs.
The company,
Elan Suisse Capital, is being investigated by a journalist from the niche South African business website,
Moneyweb. It has registered and created a website in the journalist's name,
juliuscobbett.com, attacking his credentials.
According to
an article on
The Media Online, the company published executives' replies to a list of questions by the journalist and posed their own questions back -- giving him a deadline. The site appears in the form of a letter in which the directors of the company focus on the journalist's age, qualifications, and experience. Moneyweb has called the website a "highly focused smear campaign."
