Fortune's Forgiving Instincts (Excerpt)
The Magazine Chooses Not to See
Columbia Journalism Review - January 16, 2009
by Dean Starkman

A Fortune piece this week shows how editorial tasts can differ, to say the least.

When it chooses to explore the extent to which the credit crisis will produce criminal prosecutions, the business magazine looks for reasons why it shouldn't rathter than reasons why it should.

...The Fortune story was too much for Janet Tavakoli...in an email to CJR that inspired this post, she doesn't buy the argument...

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), and
Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons January 2009)

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