Informative article about New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo's efforts to prevent AIG from paying bonuses or other deferred compensation payments to its former executives. This article is largely based on a single source, Andrew Cuomo, which limits its reliability. However, this is important breaking news which the public needs to know about.

This New York Times story is representative of what many of us have been reading in metro and national newspapers about the state of the economy: the one-source article based on a transcript or a statement with scant indication of additional reporting. Moreover, the Times writer in this dispatch doesn't record negative results, such as noting whether calls and/or efforts were made to contact Martin J. Sullivan, the company’s former chief executive, and Joseph Cassano, who directed AIG's financial products division. Even Reuters in a short dispatch made attempts to contact Sullivan and Cassano (see link below). Worse, this Times article is unclear as to the status of Cassano who announced his retirement last February. There is ... More »

Perhaps this is more of a twisted "feel good" story than breaking news. Glater gives a delicious report of the legal moves by New York's attorney general to ensure that the AIG executives whose management practices bankrupted the company don't benefit from their malfeasance.

Not too great, because they use mostly quotes, instead of actually molding a story from the information. It seems cut and paste to me.

It provides a lot of the facts that have already been reported, but doesn't go much beyond that.