Can Business Journalism Save the World?
November 21, 2009 by Editor
From Vanity Fair.com
Can business journalism save the world? Or, to be a bit less grandiose about it: Should business writers concern themselves first and foremost with telling great stories or with educating the public. For Niall Ferguson, the Scottish-born Harvard historian who discovered the subject of finance while investigating the causes of Hitler’s rise in Germany, writing about bank balance sheets is almost a holy mission. The fate of Planet Finance, as he called it in this 2008 article for Vanity Fair, is simply too important to leave in the hands of deeply biased participants. The public must be alerted. The arcane [ read more…]
by Michael Hogan | From: www.vanityfair.com | Posted: 19 November 2009, 12:00 PM
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