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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged ExxonMobil

1. June 28, 2012 11:56 PM

   Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press

   By Ryan Chittum

   Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their chokehold on the government and the economy, writes at Bloomberg View that the U.S. financial system isn't prepared to withstand a breakup of the euro: Very few people seem to have gotten their heads around dissolution risk. Here’s what it...

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2. August 6, 2012 11:00 AM

   Behind Big Oil, the original big business

   A review of Steve Coll’s Private Empire

   By Gloria Dawson

   Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | By Steve Coll | Penguin Press HC | 704 pages, $36 When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010, reporters were thrown into the deep end of the oil and gas industry—again. Twenty-two years earlier, another catastrophic spill shocked the country and changed the industry:...

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