This is “National Enron Media Week.” Now that Ex-CEO Kenneth Law has refused to testify to a Senate committee, we may be facing “National Enron Media Year.” It’s “All Enron, all the time.” The media are on Enron like a dog on a bone. The reporters have one assignment from editors: to expose dirt. They want workers’ empty retirement fund dirt, payoffs to top Republicans dirt, and insider trading dirt. Dirt attracts viewers. Dirt gets the ratings up. Higher ratings allow the media to charge more money to advertisers. This media feeding frenzy is basically reports on an empty barn … Continue reading Enron, Spawn of Business Journalism