Online circa 2008, date not positive, source no longer visible.
Article: Overstock and Patrick Byrne Continue Naked Short Selling Jihad
Article - Media, PublicationsOverstock and Patrick Byrne Continue Naked Short Selling Jihad
Thomas J. Catino, 08 November 2008
Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) President, Dr. Patrick Byrne, has continued to up the ante in his vocal public battle against a coordinated campaign of short sellers who have allegedly targeted his company’s shares. After appearing over the summer on a CNBC Street Signs segment with anchor Ron Insana, Byrne continued to emphasize that “what’s at stake here is innovation and entrepreneurship in America.” With strong words, Byrne said that his “company has been attacked and I’m not going to take this lying down.” Continue reading “Article: Overstock and Patrick Byrne Continue Naked Short Selling Jihad”
Paper: The Deep Capture Story by Mark Mitchell
PaperThe Story of Deep Capture
By Mark Mitchell, with reporting by the Deep Capture Team
The Columbia School of Journalism is our nation’s finest. They grant the Pulitzer Prize, and their journal, The Columbia Journalism Review, is the profession’s gold standard. CJR reporters are high priests of a decaying temple, tending a flame in a land going dark. In 2006 a CJR editor (a seasoned journalist formerly with Time magazine in Asia, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and The Far Eastern Economic Review) called me to discuss suspicions he was forming about the US financial media. I gave him leads but warned, “Chasing this will take you down a rabbit hole with no bottom.” For months he pursued his story against pressure and threats he once described as, “something out of a Hollywood B movie, but unlike the movies, the evil corporations fighting the journalist are not thugs burying toxic waste, they are Wall Street and the financial media itself.” His exposé reveals a circle of corruption enclosing venerable Wall Street banks, shady offshore financiers, and suspiciously compliant reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNBC, and The New York Times. If you ever wonder how reporters react when a journalist investigates them (answer: like white-collar crooks they dodge interviews, lie, and hide behind lawyers), or if financial corruption interests you, then this is for you. It makes Grisham read like a book of bedtime stories, and exposes a scandal that may make Enron look like an afternoon tea.
Introduction By Patrick M. Byrne, Deep Capture Reporter
PDF (69 Pages): Deep Capture Story
