Since publicly traded companies opt to shield some negative information about their company from the market, negative information tends to be shared progressively less and in wider communication channels of a company's organization. The public is, therefore, has less negative information about a publicly traded company than do the company's employees of the most private circles, such as the CEO.
The conclusion drawn above is based on the assumption that
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the public obtains negative information about a public company only from sources within that company
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