How Could 9,000 Business Reporters Blow It?

Mother Jones by Dean Starkman | Mar. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)

for casual readers of business coverage—that is, most of us—the past 18 months have been a crash course in things we never knew existed but that, we are told, have already done us all irreparable harm. Not only are the problems catastrophic, goes the somewhat frustrating message, but it is already too late to do anything about them—other, that is, than pay for them.

In looking back on how we got here, the business press assumes a tone of ... Full Story »

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by Tony Litwinko - Mar. 4, 2009

The writer has a background from within the subject area and is aware of the exceptions--very few it should be said--to the general rule of his thesis, but on the whole backs up his ideas with telling examples and personal anecdote for a damning look at the demise of journalism in one of its most important areas: financial affairs.

Well worth reading.