Plastic: Most Recent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... around the stories of Swift, Hamdan, and a Georgetown University law professor named Neal Katyal. Bryan Burrough's book review for the New York Times paints Hamdan as a narrative dead-ender, a whiny schlub who, like too many of his brethren, appears to have joined Al Qaeda because his VCR broke or he ran out of gum. Whatever. For the entire book he slumps in a cell at Guantanamo,...
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Kaja Whitehouse of the New York Post writes Friday that CNBC staff writers are upset about the Vanity Fair article by Bryan Burrough that implied their reporting was sloppy in covering the downfall of Bear Stearns & Co. Whitehouse writes, “Burrough told The Post he’s been taken aback by the strong reaction, including calls from CNBC [...]
Market Movers (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Bryan Burrough has a compulsively readable 10,000-word blow-by-blow account of the demise of Bear Stearns in August's Vanity Fair. Go read it: it's the best thing yet on what happened. And it does a good job of answering two of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding the episode. First, how and why did a 28-day credit line become a 48-hour sell-or-go-bankrupt deadline? And second,...
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power’ By JONATHAN MAHLER Reviewed by BRYAN BURROUGH An account of the case that forced the administration to try accused terrorists. ‘The Night of the Gun’ By DAVID CARR Reviewed by BRUCE HANDY David Carr sifts through his drug-related past in an attempt to anser the question: What really happened? Related Article: Me and My Girls...
Conglomerate (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This is Joe Nocera's list “in no particular order”: “Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco,” by Bryan...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
MEDIA • Vanity Fair scribe Bryan Burrough says he did not intend to lay the blame for Bear Stearns collapse at the feet of MSNBC. "The idea that CNBC did in Bear Stearns is ridiculous," he said. But in the article, he didn't seem to think the idea was so crazy. [ NYP ] • Bill O'Reilly gets a makeover! Don't get excited, it's just online. [ TVNewser/Mediabistro ] • Why does the ability...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Vanity Fair's recent exposé on the collapse of Bear Stearns seems to be having more of an impact in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, where business news station CNBC is located, than on Wall Street. The article by Bryan Burrough, author of "Barbarians at...
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
CNBC's ticked at Vanity Fair By KAJA WHITEHOUSE July 11, 2008 -- Vanity Fair's recent exposé on the collapse of Bear Stearns seems to be having more of an impact in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, where business news station CNBC is located, than on Wall Street. The article by Bryan Burrough, author of "Barbarians at the Gate," suggests some short-sellers may have intentionally tried to drive...
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Charles Gasparino writes Wednesday that the reporting that he and others did on CNBC before the fall of Bear Stearns & Co. was simply reporting what was happening in the market, and not rumors that took down the company — in contrast to what Bryan Burrough wrote in Vanity Fair. Gasparino writes, “The popular notion is [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
... the film in July of 2009, you can expect a living, breathing document that could even go beyond Bryan Burrough’s book of the same name, which serves as the film’s source material. “Michael is like an incredible private investigator in the way that he approaches his moviemaking,” explained Bale. “[I’m amazed by] the nuances and the details that he’s interested in and does so well.”...
Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
In the July 3 Vanity Fair, Bryan Burrough investigated the collapse in-depth from Wall Street sources -- and questioned whether it died of its own weight: The fall of Bear Stearns wasn’t just another financial collapse. There has never been...
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Bryan Burrough's recent Vanity Fair article named many parties as suspect in the "murder" of Bear Stearns. But while Citadel, SAC Capital, Goldman Sachs, Jimmy Cayne's substance abuse problem, Corey Haim and the entire cast of Parker Lewis Can't Lose really only got quick mentions as possibilities, the pages devoted to CNBC suggested that the bitches over in Englewood Cliffs killed Kenny....
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Greg Newton submits: Bryan Burrough, author of ‘Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco,’ tosses his 10,000 words into the Bear Stearns (BSC) meltdown pot in Vanity Fair this month, featuring a quote from an unnamed vice-chairman of an unnamed investment bank. Complete Story »
DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Earlier this morning we discussed the Bryan Burrough's Vanity Fair article on the downfall of Bear Stearns. Since I am simpleminded and can only focus on one thing at a time-- that god damn breakfast --I thought I'd share this email that's been circulating, which parses the piece in its entirety.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
CNBC's rumor-mongering on March 10 about Bear Stearns' liquidity crisis may have ultimate brought down the investment firm. Or so writes Bryan Burrough in the August issue of Vanity Fair, adding that...
