Bloomberg: Unmasking the Men Behind Zero Hedge, Wall Street's Renegade Blog
The veil is lifted on a secretive website.
Colin Lokey, also known as "Tyler Durden," is breaking the first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. He’s also breaking the second rule of Fight Club. (See the first rule.)
After more than a year writing for the financial website Zero Hedge under the nom de doom of the cult classic’s anarchic hero, Lokey’s going public. In doing so, he’s answering a question that has bedeviled Wall Street since the site sprang up seven years ago: Just who is Tyler Durden, anyway?
The answer, it turns out, is three people. Following an acrimonious departure this month, in which two-thirds of the trio traded allegations of hypocrisy and mental instability, Lokey, 32, decided to unmask himself and his fellow Durdens.
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Update: Zero Hedge responds to Bloomberg .... The Full Story Behind Bloomberg's Attempt To "Unmask" Zero Hedge (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: I have been reading Zero Hedge since the beginning .... it is one of the 100 odd news websites and blogs that I read daily. I read it because of its content .... not because of its internal politics or agenda. Bloomberg labels Zero Hedge as "secretive" .... but that has never been the case. Its founders and writers are well known, and all you have to do use Google if you want to know more. But the Bloomberg post is revealing on how the mainstream media views web sites like Zero Hedge .... and how they try to paint it. In short .... the rise of independent media is making a difference .... and the mainstream media does not like it.
Yup,
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, it was "you are referencing a blog",
Now of course, it's "You are referencing the NYT? You know Judith Miller's partner in crime, Gordon wrote that, right?".
For me, back in the day, it was the alt Papers like the Mercury Times, then bloggers like Steve Gillard, ( sadly, he died).