Bloomberg Silent On Whether It’ll Still Hire Journo Duped By Teen ‘Stock Whiz’

Bloomberg Tower, center, the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P., is shown Friday, June 12, 2009 in New York. The software, news and data company was founded by current New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and partners in 198... Bloomberg Tower, center, the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P., is shown Friday, June 12, 2009 in New York. The software, news and data company was founded by current New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and partners in 1981. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) MORE LESS
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Bloomberg News was dead silent Tuesday on the employment status of Jessica Pressler, the outgoing New York Magazine writer who fell for a phony story about a teen stock whiz.

Pressler had been slated to join Bloomberg as a reporter on the company’s projects and investigations team early next year.

But when asked whether the bungled story had jeopardized Pressler’s hiring, Bloomberg spokesman told media blogger Jim Romenesko and the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone that the company was declining to comment on the matter.

Bloomberg spokesman Ty Trippet did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TPM.

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  1. Someone who swallowed this ridiculous, impossible story whole is supposed to ferret out lies told by experienced, professional liars (banksters, etc.)? Yeah, right…

  2. Shouldn’t that be Yea! Right!

    Should we expect more from Bloomberg than the other news outlets that are crappy journalists?

  3. Avatar for vonq vonq says:

    So, this is what happens when you destroy journalism. No one, not even the 1%, can trust what they read, see or hear. It’s a wonderful world now isn’t it, Rupert, just so long as you can rake in the bucks that you will never, ever be able to spend?

  4. This amply illustrates the stupidity, ignorance and shallowness of racial profiling.

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