Top Talkers' Sham Truce
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The peace between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly is nothing more than a forced armistice. Lloyd Grove on why the slapfest will soon be back on-and why the two cable-TV megalomaniacs are essentially the same.
Ever since Jeff Immelt succeeded the legendary Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric, critics have questioned his ability to lead the sprawling conglomerate. Though GE's stocks have tumbled to historic lows, GE's bona fides remain sterling: a rare triple-A credit rating, the last of the original 30 component stocks still in the Dow and a clutch of powerful brands. But on Wall Street, GE's star is fading fast, with a market-value loss of nearly $300 billion and declines outpacing market averages and its troubled peers. By Maureen O'Connor.
Bible Lessons for Business
Eric Dezenhall co-founded the communications firm Dezenhall Resources, Ltd., and serves as its CEO. His first book, Nail 'em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities and Business, pioneered techniques for understanding and defusing crises.
Steering out of this crisis requires the skills of both Moses and Aaron.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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