In a time when channels for the distribution of news and commentary are mutating faster than can be tracked, may I offer this suggestion:
The news feed of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group -- here -- gathers thirty sources giving concentrated attention to issues involving securities law, regulation, enforcement and litigation in the United States. It was developed and launched as an extension of the group's base on LinkedIn by Bruce Carton, who goes from strength to strength with his blog, Securities Docket, and his series of always-informative webcasts (latest, here).
The feed is a knowledge tool that would have been unknowable in the world of the old media. I am pleased to be included as a contributor -- and even more enthusiastic to recommend its breadth and depth as a vital resource.
(Note for non-US readers: the on-going deterioration in mainstream ex-US media coverage of these matters in that country makes this compilation all the more valuable for your benefit.)
Being obliged this weekend to say a sad farewell to Walter Cronkite, those of us presumptuous enough to issue our thoughts for public consumption owe his memory the respect of a pause to consider the standards he set and against which we strive.
The gravitas of early broadcast journalism as led by Fred Friendly and Ed Murrow has given way to the bombastic posturing of Lou Dobbs and the politicized ranting of Rush Limbaugh and the sarcastic smirks of Rachel Madow. Just try to picture Walter Cronkite tracking the count of his Facebook friends, or Eric Sevareid reduced to Twitter. Imagination fails.
So -- that's the way it isn't. And we are the poorer.
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