Henry Blodget's view of the BW/Overstock online battle
We all know who Henry Blodget is. The disgraced former Wall Street analyst now has a Web site called Internet Outsider where he posts comments about Internet stocks. Blodget took at look at the Overstock.com/BusinessWeek tussle between President Patrick Byrne and e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney. Here are his decidedly anti-journalist comments: “Well, first, he takes […]
The name "business section" implies conservative coverage
Eric Alterman, author of “What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News,” believes that the name of the section in which most readers receive their business news implies a conservative bias, according to this story in the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper at UCal-Santa Barbara. The story states: “Alterman also contended that, even […]
Financial Times will break even in 2005
That’s according to a statement released by parent Pearson Plc posted on its Web site today. The entire release can be read here. In relation to the Financial Times, the release states, “the Financial Times sustained its advertising revenue growth and will reach breakeven.” This Bloomberg story states that the Financial Times lost money each […]
More from The Sanity Check: Jim Cramer is mad now
I’ve been posting about how Overstock.com’s President Patrick Byrne has been having a public discourse with BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney by posting his answers to Mullaney’s questions on a Web site called www.thesanitycheck.com. The web site was created to battle the threat of naked short sellers on the market and to fight its belief […]
UPDATE: BusinessWeek reporter calls and is mad; Overstock head responds on Internet again
The exchange between BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Tim Mullaney and Overstock.com president Patrick Byrne continued on late Friday, with Mullaney apparently calling the company’s Salt Lake headquarters upset that Byrne had posted his responses to Mullaney’s e-mail questions on the Internet. Apparently Mullaney didn’t learn his lesson the first time. Byrne has again responded online, on […]
Another one bites the dust: Newsday becomes big latest paper to cut stock listings
Newsday joins the Chicago Tribune and Providence Journal, which both announced in the past week that they were cutting the stock listings provided in the newspaper on a daily basis. Newsday made its announcement in this morning’s newspaper. Again, rising newsprint costs are being blamed. Here is what Newsday said: “We’re reducing our stock and […]
Soft coverage of tech from the Geek Fest
I have never been a big fan of the Consumer Electronics Show, and saw it first-hand when it was in Atlanta in the 1990s and I was a business reporter for the Journal-Constitution. It seemed to be a way for the computer and technology companies to get free publicity. That has apparently continued, says William […]
New editor in chief at Smart Money
His name is Jonathan Dahl, and he previously had been executive editor of the personal finance magazine, which is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and Hearst. Dahl also worked at The Wall Street Journal. He succeeds Ed Finn, who becomes editorial director. Dahl, a Columbia University grad, served as a reporter in […]
Update on trial of men who allegedley killed Forbes editor
The latest is that one of the attorneys representing one of the defendants on trial for killing Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov has been accused by the judge in the case of misonduct. An update to the trial can be found here. What I am finding interesting in following the coverage is that the trial is […]
Changing how proxy stories are written in the future
I envision a change in the basic way that executive compensation and proxy stories are written in the future if the proposed SEC rule mentioned in this morning’s USA Today makes its way into an actual regulation. In short, the SEC is considering requiring companies to report a single compensation number for its executives. Here […]
