In Sunday night’s episode of AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” Charlie Rose, portraying himself, cites a fictional column by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times business section about a $28 million charitable donation that is made after news linking a drug company’s founders to a meth dealer.
“Mr. Rose, interviewing the characters of Elliott and Gretchen Schwartz about their $28 million grant for drug and treatment centers throughout the Southwest, said, ‘Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times wrote a column suggesting that the grant was a kind of publicity maneuver to shore up the stock price of Gray Matter Technologies because of your association with Walter White.'”
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