7-1 Worldcom - DISCUSSION
Censoring is the misrepresentation or failure to disclose facts in order to control
someone's reactions. Wanting to take the position can often lead to disaster on a claimant, as it
did for Ebbers, because the jury did not believe his conduct. "Ebbers, who testified in his own
defense, insisted that he knew nothing of WorldCom's shady accounting and that he delegated
much of the technicalities of managing the firm to minions," according to the article (K.
Crawford). Ebbers and Lay exhibit sorting, seeing as they demanded they were entirely ignorant
of the forgery, despite the fact that Ebbers and Lay were well aware of the accounting fraud, but
