Categories: OLD Media Moves

“Breaking Bad” shout out for NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin

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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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.