Monday, October 20, 2003

David Warsh on Enron and the Press

Boxing the Compass of News

Enron is an especially interesting case for many reasons, not least because the press was so deeply complicit in its rise to prominence as "America’s seventh-biggest company." Early in its fifteen-year history, Enron recognized that glowing press clips, as much as analysts’ recommendations and business school cases, were the royal road to success.

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