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Category Archives: Media
Labor vs Capital at the WSJ
The Wall Street Journal’s reporters want Rupert Murdoch’s money – and
they’re not shy about asking for it.
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Nostalgia for Glass Steagall
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: Boy, is sentiment changing. The latest indicator: an article in MarketWatch bemoaning the demise of Glass Steagall, the law enacted in 1933 that separated commercial banking from investment banking. The article by Thomas Kostigen … Continue reading
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The Journal Tells Us Quants Have Suffered
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: Readers have probably figured out that I think the reporting in the Wall Street Journal is overrated. We have a prime example on page one today, “How Market Turmoil Waylaid the ‘Quants’.” My understanding … Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal Touts Dubious Research (CEO Performance Edition)
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: Will someone, please, teach the reporters at the Wall Street Journal the basics about scientific research? I know it’s hard finding stuff to write about day in, day out. But the story “Scholars Link … Continue reading
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Cash-Out Refis: The Missing Actor in the Subprime Drama
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: Ah, fall is upon us, and with it comes the spectacle of renewed discussion of what to do about the snowballing subprime/housing mess. Members of Congress will compete for air time to Bemoan the … Continue reading
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The WSJ’s Greg Ip Defends Bernanke Against Martin Wolf
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: Frankly, this is pathetic. If Bernanke and his minions can’t take the heat of some well-deserved criticism from the highly-regarded Martin Wolf of the Financial Times, they don’t belong in public service. To recap: … Continue reading
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How Greenspan Diminished the Fed
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism submits: It must be miserable to be a central banker these days. Not only are they confronted with the worst mess in at least a generation, but too many interested parties, from the financial services … Continue reading
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Press Burnishing of Presidential Image
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism submits: The media is typically kind to newly-elected leaders, so now it’s Sarkozy who is getting favorable press treatment. And when we say “burnishing image,” we mean it literally. From the BBC: The French magazine … Continue reading
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The MySpace-WSJ Barbell
WSJ.com had 4.5 million unique visitors in
July. That’s less than the LA Times, and less than a third of what nytimes.com
gets. Even a second-tier blog like consumerist.com can boast
over 2 million uniques.
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When Dynastic Control Fails
Equity Private says that dual-class share structures don’t
do what they’re designed to do:
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Cramer’s Meltdown Spills Into Print
There’s a school of thought that Jim Cramer just plays a screaming
nutcase on
TV, that in reality he’s actually quite smart and knows his onions.
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Counting Ads in the WSJ
How can the WSJ make itself more attractive to display advertisers?
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Universal Uncripples Music, Cripples Music Retailing
I’m very happy that Universal is experimenting with uncrippling its music. But I do hope it doesn’t cripple online music retailing in doing so.
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Print Bears vs TV Bulls
Brian Wesbury says there are too
many bears on the telly; Barry Ritholtz says there are
too
many bulls.
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Free the NYT’s Archives!
Holly Sanders of the New York Post is reporting
that the NYT is finally going to abolish its idiotic TimesSelect service –
and about time too.
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Melted Cramer on Toast
Jim Cramer is the Britney Spears of the financial
punditocracy: famous for being famous, great at attracting attention in a trainwreck
kind of way, self-destructive and self-loathing,
and completely, utterly out of control.
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Was There a Murdoch “Jerk Premium”?
Dan Gross reckons
that Rupert Murdoch paid a "jerk premium" of "somewhere
between $760 million and $1.22 billion" to take over Dow Jones and the
Wall Street Journal. Anybody else, he says, could have bought it for less:
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Why WSJ.com Should Be Free
Saul Hansell wonders
whether Rupert Murdoch should really make WSJ.com free from
the first day he owns it.
Of course he should.
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Nicholas Negroponte, WSJ Guardian
The (other, London, Murdoch) Times tells us who’s
going to sit on the all-important committee charged with safeguarding the
editorial integrity of the WSJ.
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Rupert Murdoch Gets a Mandate, and a Trophy
Amidst the acres of commentary on the Murdoch-Dow Jones acquisition this morning, there’s precious little in the way of news or original analysis. The WSJ is, as it has been all along, ahead of the game, and reports the most … Continue reading
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Rupert Murdoch, Victorious
It’s
finally happened: News Corp has enough Bancroft votes that it’s going to
go ahead with its acquisition of Dow Jones.
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Rupert Murdoch: Probably Posturing
The Monday-at-5pm deadline has come and gone, and the WSJ, of course, has the
best coverage of What On Earth Is Going On with the Bancrofts and Dow Jones.
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Great Moments in Punditry: Jim Cramer on Housing
If I have any ambitions of being a financial pundit, should I try to come up
with stuff like this, from Jim Cramer?
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Murdoch Says a Majority Isn’t Enough to Buy Dow Jones
Were they talking to me?
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Murdoch-Dow Jones: A Done Deal, Surely
Murdoch is going to go ahead with his Dow Jones acquisition no matter what, since he has substantially more than 50% of the vote behind him.
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