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Serious question
@BenDWalsh, is your piece an opinion piece or Objective Reporting on the News?Show this thread
Typically the authors don't write the headlines, its a great way for rag people to pass the buck and say it was somebody else's fault.
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In this case, the content is strictly worse than the headline, so I will actually credit the editor for toning it down!
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In the late 90s and early 00s, Barron's was a spot that fund managers would write guest articles or do interviews on to pump their holdings (or pump things they'd want to short or just unload). Sad to see not much has changed:https://twitter.com/vikramQL/status/1040252462555455493 …
90s redux. Hedge fund managers in their heyday make contentious statements to . . . 1.
Dump a position on the public
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Talk up a stock of something they want to short
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Get more attention to raise $$$
A thread, but TLDR: Be skeptical when someone talks their book. https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1039942962195644417 …Show this thread
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Headline writer here. “Journalists” and content writers are generally awful at writing headlines (they don’t understand marketing/people). For most of the big rags headlines are written by copywriters!
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