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Buffett corrects Dow Jones story by calling CNBC

Chris Ariens of TV Newser writes Thursday that billionaire investor Warren Buffett called CNBC‘s Becky Quick this morning to correct a misquote in a Dow Jones Newswires story.

Ariens wrote, “Quick interrupted CNBC’s Jim Cramer and Steve Liesman to repeat what Buffett was telling her.

“The Newswires story was headlined: Buffett: Dollar ‘Worthless’ If Acct Deficit Persists.

“Buffett told Quick what he really said was the dollar would be ‘worth less.’ Clearly, a very different meaning.”

Read more here, including the Dow Jones Newswires story.

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.