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Journalists Tried to Be Players But Became Pawns
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Truman Show Moments and Doublethink on the Road to Deep Capture
You may remember Peter Weir’s 1998 film, The Truman Show, in which the protagonist (Jim Carrey) is enjoying…
Fortune Magazine Gets the Vapors Defending Goldman Sachs
“I am really going to enjoy watching Goldman Sachs try to justify its nefarious schemes to a jury…
SABEW Demands Ideological Purity, Membership Conducts Maoist “Self-Criticism” Ritual
I did not really have a burning desire to join SABEW. To steal a page from Groucho Marx, I wouldn't want to join any club that would have SABEW members as members.
Gary Weiss, Psychopath & Scaramouch (Portfolio Magazine)
Summary – For over 10 years Gary Weiss (once a reporter with BusinessWeek, and recently, a columnist with…
Fortune Magazine Stonewalls Exposure of Bethany McLean Perfidy
Summary – This post contains two emails I sent Fortune Magazine regarding Deep Capture’s work documenting an inappropriate…
December 30, 2008
Rocker Partners and Bethany McLean: the smarmiest guys in the room
the evidence shows that Rocker Partners hedge fund first approached Bethany McLean about Fairfax on December 7, 2006. Bethany then met with Rocker Partners employee (and former SEC attorney) Richard Sauer 11 days later, and presumably began work on what would become her March 6, 2007 article The inside story of a Wall Street battle royal shortly thereafter.
Bethany McLean: your benefit of the doubt is hereby revoked
There’s no sense denying it: reporters depend on sources, and in the mind of most business journalists, a…
December 16, 2008
Carol Remond Tells a Joke She Doesn’t Get (DowJones)
Summary – Carol Remond recently wrote a defense of the meltdown of Rocker Partners (a.k.a. Copper River), her…
December 15, 2008
Roddy Boyd Sucks It Like He’s Paying the Rent (Fortune Magazine)
In the adult novelty & video arcade shop that is our New York financial establishment, one of the…
October 10, 2008
David Einhorn, Cheryl Strauss, and the “Unavailable” Bethany McLean
As will be explored in a subsequent piece, it would be fair to describe my relationship with Bethany…