here's one. Weiss was very assertive....it took 4 of his sock puppets 2 years of sustained "consensus by sockpuppetry"..... in placing an op-ed piece (curiously devoid of any factual content, lol) by his buddy Joe Nocera into the Byrne-Overstock-Weiss-NakedShorting-etc WP articles. Guess what? Check this out, lol:
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Deep Capture has come to possess a great number of emails between various journalists and miscreants. In one, the former BusinessWeek reporter brags to the crooked mortgage broker of influencing the contents of Nocera’s “Campaign of Menace†article in The New York Times. “This is totally my doing,†Gary writes. “Yuk. Yuk. Yuk.â€
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb...msg&mid=5086308That's Patrick Byrne writing that, and he's not kidding.
this is more about what sort of "journalist" that WP was letting run roughshod over its own rules and taking down the credibility of WP's "leaders" with it:
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In another email, Gary recounts his successful campaign to keep a reporter named Liz Moyer from getting a job at BusinessWeek because she has written favorably of companies victimized by short-sellers. Moyer, who is now with Forbes, is one of the few journalists who have accurately described the phantom share problem.
Oh yeah, these emails are going to find a very popular audience someday. Wonder if it will be via a book or via a court transcript (this fall finds Byrne Vs The Baddies in front of a jury)? Since there's 8000 of them, and only 1864 involve Weiss, I'd say that either the Byrne Vs Rocker-Gradient or the Byrne Vs The Brokerages trials are going to let them see the light.
I would place very high odds on some mentions about WP in these matters going forward, so I feel it's on-topic for WR, so I bring it up here....although IMHO WP is just a small, funny, sideshow in alll this stuff...
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