Betaville

The financial PR man with no name ...

Loyal readers will know that little old Betaville has to deal with well paid corporate public relations advisers on a daily basis.

These characters - also known as spin doctors, spinners and flacks - are part of any daily business hack's reporting routine. That's because when you discover a good story you often have to deal a company's PR team ahead of publication.

But little old Betaville's latest experience is perhaps the oddest one I have encountered after twenty years of working as a business reporter...