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The best addition to the Bloomberg story came in an with Radio Iowa during his pilgrimage in which he mused about his plans for his company, Bloomberg LP, if he ran. He’d either sell it or place it in a blind trust.
“I think at my age, if selling it is possible, I would do that,” Bloomberg said. “At some point, you’re going to die anyway, so you want to do it before then.”“We’ve always had a policy that we don’t cover ourselves. I happen to believe, in my heart of hearts, you can’t be independent and nobody’s going to believe that you’re independent,” Bloomberg, whose net worth of makes him the 11th-richest man in the world.“And quite honestly, I don’t want the reporters I’m paying to write a bad story about me!
I don’t want them to be independent. So you’re going to have to do something,” he added.Spoken like a true oligarch.This lack of faith in Bloomberg News’ ability to report on his candidacy without fear or favor speaks poorly for an organization that Bloomberg built in his own image and from scratch in with the assistance of Matthew Winkler.
The pair was so controlling that Winkler banned the use of the words “but” and “however” because he thought they added only muddle.Two former Bloombergers, Kathy Kiely, former politics editor, and Rich Jaroslovsky, former executive editor, took almost immediate exception to their boss’ belief that his news organization couldn’t readily cover his candidacy. In her Washington Post, Kiely cited the decent job the Post has done in covering Amazon, founded and controlled by Post owner Jeff Bezos.Kiely explained the mindset of journalists that appears to be beyond Bloomberg’s comprehension. “The reporters may get paid by the person with the checkbook, but they work for the readers—or the viewers, or the listeners,” she wrote.Jaroslovsky, who left Bloomberg in 2013, wrote in that when his boss flirted with a White House run in 2008 Jaroslovsky cooked up a plan in which Bloomberg News “could fairly report on his role in the campaign while being transparent about the inherent conflict.”“I had little confidence that I would have been allowed to implement that plan, however, and was frankly relieved when he opted not to run,” Jaroslovsky wrote. “If he had, I strongly suspect my Bloomberg career would have ended five years before it did.”Bloomberg’s disinclination to have the reporters on his payroll write about him comes from the recognition that they know him better than the average journalist. If Bloomberg really thinks that nobody is going to think that his news organization is independent of his influence, he could easily remedy that by placing it in a trust before he announces his candidacy but leaves them with one final order to report the hell out of this Michael Bloomberg fellow. If Bloomberg News reporters were to follow through and break real news on him, these questions of independence would vaporize overnight.
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ByIn hopes that Bloomberg takes my advice, allow me to give his reporters a starter list of story ideas. No Bloomberg profile is complete without noting that he refuses to adhere to any set of political principles. For instance, he was once a vehement of ethanol subsidies.
But in his Radio Iowa interview, he said he now thinks “ethanol and biofuels are a part of the mix.” He was a lifelong Democrat who ran successfully for the New York City mayoralty as a Republican before becoming an independent in 2007 just in time for his last term. In October, he as a Democrat once again! This isn’t a crime. Many politicians have flipped to another party in their careers, but show me somebody who has flip-flop-flipped his way to the presidency.What sort of allegiance to Democratic Party values can Bloomberg claim? During the 2004 Republican National Convention that renominated George W. Bush, he gave a to delegates in which he said, to much applause, “The president deserves our support. We are here to support him.
And I am here to support him.”Unless the Bloomberg campaign slogan is “Pick a Republican for the Democratic Nomination,” Mayor Mike has a lot of explaining to do. Not even our, Donald Trump, has vacillated this vigorously. Like Trump, Bloomberg’s changeability makes him a wild-card candidate, subject to whim. We’ve had two years of that. Who wants four more?.Send your great ideas for Bloomberg coverage to. My will vote for Bloomberg if he hands over $250,000.
My feed can’t be bought. My feed doesn’t vote.
Courtesy Bloomberg BusinessweekEventually, that early crew started to drift away, starting with Turley, in 2014, who left for a plum gig reimagining MTV’s brand. Afterward, under the creative lead of Rob Vargas, the team kept mining the vein they had struck. But soon enough, most everyone else started to leave as well, exhausted by the pace of producing a weekly magazine and knowing that their talents were in demand.
Keegin became photo editor at The Fader. Daniel went on to become the creative director for emoji design at Google. Ma took a big job at the Times. But not everyone left. Steph Davidson remains, designing web features such as the famed “What Is Code?” piece by writer Paul Ford; so does Chris Nosenzo, who came of age at Bloomberg Businessweek and is now its creative director.Today, you don’t much hear about Bloomberg Businessweek covers anymore.
The weirdo sensibility that used to set Twitter ablaze seems to be gone. Except it isn’t. The magazine’s hard working, Swiss grid system is intact, though updated around the edges. There are still slyly clever covers and conceits, and the design team still makes some nutty spreads. But as Nosenzo explains, it’s not the design that’s changed so much as the moment itself.He sees the Bloomberg Businessweek aesthetic as drawing from two buckets: One, the banal world of hyper-rational modern design; the other, a sensibility drawn from punk zines, net art, and Rei Kawakubo—a post-modern embrace of ugliness. “When we launched, we were in the middle of a financial crisis, covering things like credit default swaps. That abstraction needed to be matched with irreverence,” Nosenzo says.
“Now the world has changed. There’s a populist rise. The irony needs to be recalibrated.” Keegin agrees that the Bloomberg Businessweek she worked at reflected a prelapsarian world, unaware of how ugly life was about to get, or how faith in democratic values could evaporate almost overnight.“My last few years at Businessweek were a time when everything was cool, when irony was allowed because things really weren’t so bad,” Keegin says. “We thought the world of twenty-first-century capitalism was pretty funny. Now we’re like, ‘Oh shit, it’s not so funny.’”.