Andrew Ross Sorkin Called "Financial Equivalent" To Judy Miller By NYT Colleagues

New York Magazine:

Some of his antagonists in the newsroom wonder what, in the end, his privileged access is in the service of. "It's the Jon Stewart question," one senior Times staffer said, referencing Stewart's memorable takedown of CNBC's pre-meltdown boosterism. The squawking, which is loudest among the reporters on the business staff and not among higher-ups, has lately gotten louder, and meaner. As Sorkin's career has burgeoned, he's developed another audience of close readers: his colleagues, who comb the column for evidence of favor-trading. In conversations with me, several compared Sorkin's relationship with the Wall Street elite to disgraced former Times reporter Judith Miller's alliance with Bush-administration officials peddling bogus intelligence in support of the Iraq War. "She got too close to her sources," a veteran Times staffer told me. "It was disastrously wrong and we let our readers down. This is the financial equivalent of that."

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Comments

[GQTaste]

Should have known this was a rich kid nepotism type of deal w/ all the times he's on Charlie Rose.

[InfinteShibumi]

Why "rich kid nepotism"? Charlie Rose has his favorites like all the rest, some pretentious and hard to take (Bernard-Henri Lévy and his wife Arielle Dombasle) and others not (Senator Clyburn). Charlie too has to pay the piper for access to wielders of power and information inside the NY "beltway."

[raker]

Sorkin is bad, but Miller was worse. By all indications, she wasn't just used and led astray by her sources, she was a co-conspirator.

[Donatella]

He's had good tutoring. His father and Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, was head enforcer for the SEC in the New York area. As so many do, he left government "service" and now defends the sharks that got us in this mess.

[MadeandBakedintheUSA]

always on that am show -msnbc

[CanHandleTheTruth]

Concurred on Sorkin, who has no conscience as a 'business' journalist.

Read Judith Miller's past books to gauge a sense of her personal wider agenda, and why she (and Michael Gordon, mind you) played lackeys to Cheney on Iraq.

These hacks are tactically deployed, and are plentiful. Best to approach foreign press for some viable perspective on current and world affairs.

[larce1948]

Amazing! Miller is still considered some sort of "journalist" and Kramer still has a show after his total smackdown by Stewart. The incestuous love between Wall Street, government and Corporate media make everything suspect and probably a load of hooey.

[urnumbersix]

Well - at least some of his colleagues are "dropping a dime" on him.

We can't say we weren't warned.

[factotem]

NYT is off my reading list for the last 8 years. I don't read irresponsible hawkish propaganda from a paper too dumb to parse basic ethcial questions.

[1dogs2]

The problem with Judith Miller was not simply that she was "too close to her sources." More importantly, she saw her role as a journalist as indistinguishable from that of a stenographer or a tape recorder. By her own admission, she did not believe that she had any obligation to fact-check what her sources told her, or even to signal her reader that her source was unreliable.

[LincolnBrigader]

Judy Miller allowed herself to be the conduit for Cheney's disinformation campaign. She published what she was told, and then Cheney et al. would go on news programs and cite those stories as corroborating evidence to support their lies in order to wage aggressive warfare under false pretenses. Miller knew this was going on, but said nothing. Those facts she didn't think important enough to divulge. One might say she did these things to maintain access to the White House. Or one might say she did these things because she was an agent provocateur before she was a "journalist." She has been disgraced, but the perpetrators have suffered no consequences. They sacrificed the blood of our brave soldiers to pursue their accursed and perverse agenda. Maybe one day we'll know the complete truth of how they played us, and they will at last suffer the consequences of their infamies.

[banja]

Sounds like a young guy on the way up being beaten down by the old guard at the times, Congs Andrew on a great book. Any movie or documentary deals....Too big to fail. I can only imagine the high stress radical decisions Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner had to make in those dark hours. frankly there is a lot of revisionist history going on these days that needs to be corrected.

[dennissinned]

It doesn't seem like he really paid his dues. But life has a way of humbling everyone.

[Arrech]

Andrew Ross Sorkin is intelligent, handsome and successful.

They are jealous...

[winningticket]

I still wouldn't pay two cents to read his Wall Street fluff book.

[ByersL]

They are right, Sorkin has gotten too sweet with those who know, for a story. Now he's protecting them. Too bad, he had a lot of potential.

[december30]

He is a loud mouth priviliged. Give me a break. LOL

[HC4BO]

NYT Hacks ... !