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By William K. Black

I have concluded that the journalists who write for the New York Times’ “Deal Book” are incapable of embarrassment or introspection.  I have waited in vain for Andrew Ross Sorkin to make a New Year’s resolution to make 2014 a fresh start.  There are scores of Deal Book article that drive a white-collar criminologist and a (real) financial regulator to despair.  I focus here on one article by Sorkin on October 14, 2013 entitled “The Bloodlust of Pundits Swirls Around Jamie Dimon” that exemplifies how much harm Deal Book does because of its pandering to the elite financial CEOs who became wealthy from the frauds that drove the crisis, its ethics-free approach to financial fraud, and its analytical ennui.  Deal Book could be a national asset, but it is a net liability.  This first installment discussing their “Bloodlust” article analyzes Sorkin’s use of the world “bloodlust.”

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