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1. July 29, 2011 06:00 AM

   Almost Famous (2000)

   Who's afraid of Rolling Stone?

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   Beware, beware, Rolling Stone magazine... Music, inarguably, is the hero, the emotional engine in Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe-written, -directed (and -lived, as the story is autobiographicalish) film set in early 1970's San Diego. (Don’t deny you got goose bumps, in spite of yourself, during the Tiny Dancer sing-along-on-the-tour-bus scene. Maybe you teared up during the Tangerine-soaked happy ending?) Rolling...

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2. November 28, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: FT’s Fairhead is out; BofA CEO stonewalls; Rent a Quote

   But Pearson says the paper is not for sale.

   By Ryan Chittum

   FT Group CEO Rona Fairhead got denied the top job at Pearson and so is stepping down as chairman and CEO of its unit the FT Group, with a $1.8 million exit package. The Guardian's Nils Pratley asks a good question: "Why is Pearson paying Rona Fairhead to go?" The New York Times reports that the new Pearson CEO visited...

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3. December 6, 2010 04:59 PM

   Can Rolling Stone Claim Blankenship’s Scalp?

   By Felix Salmon

   Can Rolling Stone claim another scalp? Six months after ending the career of Stanley McChrystal, Rolling Stone published Jeff Goodell's blistering, 7,600-word profile of Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy. Entitled "The Dark Lord of Coal Country," it's powerful stuff: Unless you live in West Virginia, you've probably never heard of Don Blankenship. You might not know that he...

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4. August 19, 2011 10:58 AM

   Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC

   Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop

   By Felix Salmon

   Matt Taibbi’s 5,000-word exposé of the SEC’s document-shredding is a magnificent piece of journalism, and is the first and last place that you should look to understand what’s going on here. After the piece came out, Senator Chuck Grassley—who’s quoted in the article—made growling noises in the general direction of the SEC, which is now very much on the back...

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5. April 26, 2012 05:26 PM

   Obama promises climate talk

   But reporters will probably have to keep asking

   By Curtis Brainard

   Three cheers to Rolling Stone cofounder Jann S. Wenner for getting President Barack Obama to utter the words “climate change” for the first time in a long time. In a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday, Obama used the term six times in responses to three different questions, surprising many pundits and environmentalists who’d come to believe that the chief executive had...

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6. April 12, 2011 02:11 PM

   Taibbi on a Fed Bailout the Business Press Buried

   By Ryan Chittum

   Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone zeroes in on an interesting detail from the Federal Reserve's bailouts: The Fed lent big bucks to an investment vehicle led by Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack's wife and the widow of a Morgan Stanley executive—people Taibbi reports have no "serious" business experience: But if you want to get a true sense of what the...

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7. June 23, 2011 12:48 PM

   The Crazy Book-Banning Lady Who Wants to be President (UPDATED)

   Matt Taibbi’s colorful takedown of “Mad” Michele Bachmann

   By Joel Meares

   Last week, The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg authored what one might have reasonably expected would be the most vicious takedown of GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann we would likely see before the primaries began. From the mainstream press, at least. Opening with the increasingly infamous tale of Bachmann screaming in a bathroom that she was being held against her will...

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