Last week, JPMorgan agreed to a $722 million settlement with the SEC stemming from a risky derivatives deal that drove Alabama's most populous county to the brink of bankruptcy. As part of the settlement, JPMorgan neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing -- despite ample evidence that it had engaged in plenty of wrongdoing. This is what passes for justice on Wall Street: regulators give a company a ding...
I've just finished attending Day 1 of the PRSA International Conference in San Diego . Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post , was the Sunday keynote speaker. Katie D. Paine, CEO of KDPaine & Partners , discussed Social Media Measurement: Establishing ROI. And Peter Himler, founder and principal of Flatiron Communications , Rick Clancy, former senior vice president of corporate communication...
The PRSA National Conference got off to a good start in San Diego yesterday with a thought-provoking keynote session. Arianna Huffington spoke about her views on new media, old media and the need for ethics in PR. Then she interviewed Wendell Potter about his change of heart and the decision to embrace transparency and honesty. Arianna opened [...]
William D. Cohan profiles Larry Summers in the December issue of Vanity Fair and confirms what we've long known: the star economic counselor has been his own worst enemy. The whole thing is worth a read, but here are some highlights: Iris Mack , a former derivatives specialist at the Harvard Management Company (responsible for investing Harvard’s endowment) claims that a betrayal by Summers...
Ithacan Online | Cornell SunArianna Huffington also told the young audience at Ithaca College: "What your generation does with these new tools and this new media is going to define what happens in journalism, politics and the rest of our culture." || More on her talk.
I’ve been saying this for about eight months. Now Arianna Huffington says it yesterday. This is what I’ve been feeling and writing about Plouffe’s book arrives at a crossroads moment for the administration — exactly one year after the election, and one year before the 2010 midterms. A lot has happened in that year, as the [...]
Over 100 newspaper and magazine publishers and broadcasting chiefs bfrom 48 African countries have arrived the country for the two-day African Media Leaders Forum (AMFL) which begins today in Lagos.The keynotes will be delivered by the famous former ABC Nightline Anchor, Mr. Ted Koppel; co-founder of Huffington Post in the US , Arianna Huffington; Publisher of Next newspaper, Dele Olojede; and Dean...
IMHO, last night's losses to Republicans were indeed a referendum on President Obama--who is being punished because he has not kept his campaign promises, as Arianna Huffington argued the other day. To turn the situation around, the Democrats need to go back to basics, and to the principles upon which the President campaigned, as Arianna noted: "Change We Can Believe In" and "Yes, We...
Forget Tinky-Winky, or whatever his name was. Meet Oscar the Grouch. A conservative blogger at Andrew Breitbart's website -- the onetime right-hand man for Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington -- is now targeting Sesame Street for its "unfair" portrayal of Fox News as "trashy news show." Evidently, Oscar the Grouch's "GNN" is not trashy enough. (Oscar, the [...]
As Year One of the Obama Era draws to a close, the recent Arianna Huffington/David Plouffe exchange illustrates a structural defect in the coalition Obama's seeking to build. And make no mistake: Some might call it The Year of Living...
President Obama - The State of the Moment A new poll released today shows that one year after Barack Obama was elected, his approval rating stands at 54 percent, with 45 percent saying they disapprove of how the president is...
Arianna Huffington posted “Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs. The Timidity of Governing. HuffPost asked for replies. Mine is here and below. I welcome your thoughts. My bottom line: On climate and clean energy policy, he has been anything but timid! Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: [...]
Arianna Huffington : I often found myself wondering what Candidate Obama would think of President Obama. Would he look at what the White House is doing and say, "that's what I and my supporters worked so hard for?" How did the candidate who got into the race because he'd decided that "the core leadership had turned rotten" and that "the people were getting hosed" become...
In a power move sure to rock the universe of self-absorbed Westside LA liberal showbiz activists, Arianna Huffington has grabbed Billy Silverman, producer Brian Grazer's former "cultural attaché" to...
From NBC's Mark MurrayEarlier today, Arianna Huffington had quite the conversation starter: that after reading Obama campaign manager David Plouffe's new book, "The Audacity to Win," she believes the first year of Obama's presidency can be summed up with this title instead -- "The Timidity to Govern." She wrote: Indeed, reading the book, I often found myself wondering what Candidate...
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