Noting that Michael Bloomberg won’t be listed in its new billionaires list, Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes that Bloomberg News needs to report on its parent the same way other business media report about themselves.
“As I’ve written with The Wall Street Journal and News Corporation, I’d hardly expect a news organization to go out there and launch muckraking investigations of its parent. I said then that ‘What we should expect is that the WSJ, as a comprehensive business paper, will report the news as it develops, disclose its ownership, and display the story appropriately for its readers.’
“The same goes for Bloomberg.
“You can’t just not cover a major company sitting at the heart of a major beat when you’re a comprehensive news service. Nobody’s that special.”
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