[lbo-talk] Re: Blogosphere

Tim Francis-Wright tim at francis-wright.com
Fri Jun 16 16:41:18 PDT 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:

> Well the hell with Mandel - he's a cheerleader. But the rest of

> Business Week is consistently smart & informative.

Yes, much of Business Week is very useful. But when Jack and Suzy Welch are on the back page, their output is good only for black comedy.

(My favorite recently was their condemnation of a "country-club" culture that a hapless small business owner had set up. Jack, of course, knows all about country clubs, since his retirement agreement paid for memberships in five of them.)

> I gotta wonder what "MSM" you read. The much- and often deservedly

> maligned NYT is still a rich source of news, as are the Wall Street

> Journal and Financial Times.

And the FT even speaks sense from time to time in its editorial pages.

--tim francis-wright



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