{"id":231,"date":"2007-01-30T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2007-01-30T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:48:00","slug":"financial-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/01\/financial-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span>ccording to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Harvard Business School<\/span> professor <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Greg Miller<\/span>, financial journalists uncover nearly a third of <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/5591.html\" target=\"_blank\">major accounting scandals<\/a>. He presents this as positive evidence of the business media&#8217;s &#8216;watchdog&#8217; role. In the course of an interview with Harvard&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Working Knowledge<\/span> he also passes on this nugget: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s always going to be someone in the press looking to put out negative spin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Negative spin, eh? Like<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> &#8216;Business journalism fails to uncover 70% of major financial scandals.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can read his whole paper <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=484423#PaperDownload\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and cynicism aside, it&#8217;s actually quite interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s &#8216;watchdog&#8217; role. In the course of an interview with Harvard&#8217;s Working Knowledge he also passes on this nugget: There&#8217;s always going to be someone in the press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-financial-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}