Re:Suck It, Wall Street
by tptacek on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:40AM
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He's bad at his job. He's a good writer, but he isn't a decent journalist. Technical finance reporters have made a sport out of pointing out all the times he's embarrassed himself on stories, from TARP to the NYC parking meter story. This is yet another example.
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Re:Suck It, Wall Street
by jessaustin on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:14AM
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A plain reading of the five sentences in which airlines are discussed, in response to Sorkin's previous comparison of GameStop with Delta, makes clear that the flaw you see is an imagined one. Your dredging up of decade-old complaints proves rather than undermines the observations above of your mysterious animus for Taibbi. NYC seems never to have sold off its parking meters at all, since everything on that topic comes from 2012. [0] That being the case, one could believe the claims of Bloomberg apologists that "it wouldn't have been like Chicago", but that isn't obviously true.
Those who don't see TARP as v1.0 and CARES as v2.0 of a giant transfer of wealth from those who can't afford lobbyists to those who can, simply aren't paying attention. One shudders to contemplate the calamity scheduled to justify v3.0.
[0] https://reason.org/commentary/new-york-parking-privatization...
Re:Suck It, Wall Street
by tanseydavid on Friday January 29, 2021 @02:22PM
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Taibbi is awesome at his job and an exceptional journalist.
The intentional misreading of the latest piece (vis-a-vis Airline comments) seems very odd.
You should create some competition for him with your own writings to demonstrate how mistaken my opinion is on this matter.