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Barron's writer needs to stop with Microsoft story

TheStreet.com’s Marek Fuchs wants to know why Barron’s writer Eric Savitz has written the same Microsoft story about the company still being a growth stock three times in the past three years.

Fuchs wrote, “The Business Press Maven has a couple of concerns here. These articles appear written from the same template, without enough new information to merit such repetition, especially this latest one.

“Stop the presses! A company stated publicly that it was still relevant! It is overkill, boosterism. Microsoft has a public relations department that takes care of that; it does not need outside help.

“All articles in this collection (maybe I should market a collector’s edition) start by talking about how Microsoft is misunderstood by investors before going on to make faintly similar cases for why the stock is … c’mon, everyone together this time … a growth stock.

“In his most recent love letter to Microsoft, Savitz leads by saying that, while not many professional money managers seem to agree, ‘the nattering nabobs are dead wrong.’

“Last year, Savitz opened by talking not about nabobs, but for variation ‘the cynics’ who thought Microsoft would keep ‘shuffling along.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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