This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments.
• Ian Fraser: The British journalist is a one-man clearinghouse for news and analysis on Libor and other banking scandals.
• The Financial Times’s Alphaville: This free blog delivers smart takes for those who want a wonky, deeper dive into financial issues like Libor.
• The Wall Street Journal: Its Libor landing page has backgrounders as well as streaming tweets and less-wonky coverage than the FT.
• The Economist: Its weekly stories have been perhaps the best explainers of the crisis, showing how the format is still valuable amidst a swarm of up-to-the-second information that’s usually detached from context.
• Matt Taibbi: With a muckraker’s view on the scandal, the Rolling Stone writer’s blog zeroes in on why the story matters.
That is the list I would reference if I wanted to construct a dissent-free, pro-FED, anti-capitalist monologue. I.e., if I were an MSM "journalist."
#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Mon 6 Aug 2012 at 01:37 PM
And what would be the reading list showing that Libor is a good thing for ruining world economies? i.e.: A list of fiction pieces.
#2 Posted by Eric Olson, CJR on Mon 6 Aug 2012 at 02:40 PM