The normally thorough Howard Kurtz has a piece running entitled Press May Own a Share in Financial Mess. A flavour?
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Now if there were more of this in the new News Corp. Wall Street Journal…Marc Andreessen has a great annotated version of a letter to investors in a collapsed hedge fund. It’s so good, I make no apology for running it in full:
…the letter Sowood [the hedge fund] wrote to its investors is a particularly […]
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The value of financial journalism and high-quality journalism is that you can charge for it. Rupert MurdochHere’s the best take on the Dow Jones bid, written back in January 2007 by David Warsh:
It is the ticker and its history that is the secret of why […]
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Fresh reports of the coming of a Fox News business channel. Of course, Rupert Murdoch has been promising to get one off the blocks since 2004, but now he’s so serious he’s even cracking jokes:
“…we have to recruit some money honeys,” chuckled Murdoch, referring to the now-trademarked nickname of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo.
Slate’s Daniel Gross summed […]
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According to Harvard Business School professor Greg Miller, financial journalists uncover nearly a third of major accounting scandals. He presents this as positive evidence of the business media’s ‘watchdog’ role. In the course of an interview with Harvard’s Working Knowledge he also passes on this nugget:
There’s always going to be someone in the press looking […]
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