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Poynter Online - Enron and the Media Poynter Online - Enron and the Media Posted, Mar. 8, 2002 Updated, Mar. 8, 2002 QuickLink: A5162 The Enron Collapse Enron and the Media By Ellen W Sung (more by author) E-mail this item Print this Page Add Your Comments on this Article Related Resources Full Coverage: Enron (Yahoo! News) Understanding Enron (New York Times) Enron Probe (Washington Post) Enron Statements from accounting firm Arthur Andersen Enron's campaign contributions and lobbying (Center for Responsive Politics)APRIL 4, 2002WSJ's Weil: Lots of People Had Story 'First'Jonathan Weil is thought to be the first reporter to question Enron's earnings. (He wrote a skeptical piece for the Wall Street Journal's Texas Journal insert in September 2000.) Weil tells Eric Celeste: "Look, all sorts of people were 'first' on this thing. When stock was trading for $90 a share, no one reporter could identify every area of corruption in the company... My view is that I wrote this story for a publication with a circulation of 100,000 that was closely read in Texas and on Wall Street, I did this story on one element, I put it in context, and I showed that this accounting technique had been used before and that it was a huge problem." (Dallas Observer) MARCH 8, 2002Enron: Uncovering the Uncovered StoryBefore Fortune's Bethany McLean wrote about Enron, there was a tipster who pointed her toward the story. Scott Sherman deconstructs the press' coverage of Enron. (Columbia Journalism Review) MARCH 4, 2002WSJ: People Are Trying to "Queer" Our Enron Pulitzer Pitch Fortune's Bethany McLean is getting credit for being the first to write about Enron's funny finances, but Wall Street Journal editors and reporters say they deserve it. "The Fortune story basically said this is a company that nobody understands," WSJ deputy managing editor Daniel Hertzberg tells Seth Mnookin. "It didn't show what was wrong with the company. It took (WSJ reporters) to do that." Mnookin says some WSJ-ers wonder whether Pulitzer rivals Washington Post and NYT have gone out of their way to praise McLean. Full Article: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5162 |
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