Why Objective Business Journalism is Impossible (except for Doug of course)

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Jan 11 09:17:23 PST 2000


Did you see the Sunday NYT front page article on how conflicts of interest are rife among top partners in PriceWaterhouse ?

CB


>>> "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> 01/10/00 06:55PM >>>


>From SLATE magazine today, a rather fun honest conflict of interest disclosure
that says a lot about why all business journalism probably needs a strong does of skepticism: -- NN ------- More on the AOL-Time Warner Deal By: James Surowiecki

Some further notes on this AOL-Time Warner blockbuster (multiple conflict-of-interest note: I write for Fortune, which is owned by Time Warner; I actually owned shares of AOL until around lunchtime, when I sold them; and I'm writing this column for Microsoft, which is probably affected by this deal in some way):



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