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NYT biz columnist Nocera takes aim at former NYT boss Raines
August 6, 2008
New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera thinks that the criticism former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines levied in his latest column in Conde Nast Portfolio at business journalists for letting the oil companies off easy is malarkey.
“Well, yes, malarkey is the right word — but it’s a word that more appropriately describes Raines’s column. He seems to believe that the big problem in the United States is that the oil companies are not exploring enough ‘on the vast, unused acreage in existing oil leases.’ Apparently he hasn’t been to Fort Worth recently, where companies are drilling for natural gas in people’s backyards — literally. He sloughs off the tens of billions Big Oil spends each year exploring for oil — and doesn’t even seem to realize that the $25 billion Exxon Mobil paid last year ‘to foreign governments’ is money that makes such exploration possible. He flicks aside the notion that the oil companies want to build more refineries — ignoring the fact that the lack of new refinery capacity is a huge bottleneck that helps push up prices. He mocks ‘network TV anchors and correspondents’ for portraying big oil companies as ‘powerless victims’ to supply and demand. Never mind that Exxon Mobil, for instance, controls less than 2 percent of the world’s oil supply. Most of the world’s oil is controlled by countries, not companies — and they tend to be pretty unabashed about wanting higher prices.”
Read more here. Nocera was not at the paper when Raines ran the shop.
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