Paul Smalera of True/Slant has issued with business journalists Matt Taibbi and Chris Lehmann making fact errors in recent stories and downplaying their significance.
“There’s only a handful of institutions that can provide this sort of apprenticeship in the financial media world right now, one of which is the Wall Street Journal. Heidi worked there, and I was lucky enough to work with several smart Journal reporters who imported that climate, for a short time, to my magazine. Even so, I realize that any financially complicated article that I undertake is going to take me three times as long to write as a profile about a tech startup, because there’s very little in the way of opinion that a writer can use to lead a reader through a financial article. Financial articles require analysis, based on facts, that lead a writer to a limited set of possible conclusions. And finally, that’s what’s missing from Taibbi’s screeds and Lehmann’s piece on Taibbi and Moore. In disregard, disinterest, misunderstanding or ignorance of the facts, they tee off on the personalities, the nepotism, the cronyism -– anything but the numbers and analysis that actually tells the story.
“Really, my training was just enough to realize how little I know about financial reporting and to insure I be triply careful when I undertake stories in that area myself.”
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