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Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?

 

Each day, BoDs and executives treat us activist investors worse than the prominent reporters in two major newspapers did last week. We expect it from CEOs and their minions. 

 

We expect writers only to get the facts straight, reach conclusions based on logic and reason, and handle all sides fairly. Neither Dennis Berman in the Wall Street Journal nor Steven Davidoff Solomon in the New York Times did that in their recent hit pieces on activist investing. 

 

Not surprisingly, corporate flunkies such as Stephen Bainbridge loved it. And, Solomon has an unfortunate habit habit when he chronicles activist investing of botching facts, reason, and fairness, so this latest episode doesn't exactly surprise us.

 

See our current blog post for a critique. 

Recent TAI blog posts

 

The New CEO Activist Hedge Fund Makes No Sense (1/29/15)

Shareholder Enragement, Continued (1/22/15 email)

Does Marty Lipton Even Read the Stuff He Sends to Clients? (1/20/15) 

What Did An SEC Commissioner Just Do For Classified Boards? (1/13/15) 

Letter to New York Times writer Gretchen Morgenson on proxy access at Whole Foods (1/8/15)

What Did Whole Foods (and the SEC) Just Do to Proxy Access? (1/6/15)

You can find other useful resources at the TAI website, including our research on "Effective Activism, on the Cheap", our new resource guides on attorneys for activist investors and on activist investing data sourcesour white paper with the basics on activist investing, and our new guides on exempt solicitationconsent solicitation, and special shareholder meetings. 
For further information, please contact:
 
Michael R. Levin
m.levin@theactivistinvestor.com
847.830.1479