Sunday, July 14, 2002

On the other hand, I heard Daniel Schorr's commentary this morning and it made me retch, I almost wet my pants with anger. All the cries for reform from the journalists are a convenient form of finger-pointing that draws the attention away from them. Yeah, sure the boards of directors of the companies should have been watching management more carefully, it was their job to do that and they fell down. It wasn't really Dubya's job, as the governor of Texas, to be watching this. Sure he's a dirty man, he's profited from the slackish rules. But the press was supposed to be blowing the whistle then, and instead were playing footsy with the CEOs just like the board members and the accounting firms. That came home to me, reading the latest issue of Fortune with Bill Gates on the cover (they say he's achieved serenity, oh sure, give me a fucking break). The journalists of the 1990s were lapdogs for the CEO du jour, they still are, even though the CEOs are going down down down. [Scripting News] 10:36:44 AM

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