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Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and SmartMoney editor-at-large, recounted spending Valentine’s Day alone in Arkansas while tracking down a story...
...SmartMoney Mortgage Calculator Use this site to decide what you should be paying for your property...
This is mitigated, however, by the fact that GE--again, a partner of Microsoft in MSNBC--is also a partner, with Disney and Hearst (which, along with Dow Jones, owns SmartMoney magazine; more on that later), in A&E, the Arts & Entertainment cable channel, which is showing a made-for-TV movie starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington, which I haven't seen but which is hard not to hold against these companies anyway. What's worse, GE has direct links, via co-ownership of CNBC, the financial-news cable channel, with Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal...
...Well, perhaps I do. Look: this very article you are reading is in a magazine published by a company that owns a cable channel that competes with another cable channel that is half owned by a company (Dow Jones) that also half owns a magazine (SmartMoney) that competes with another magazine (MONEY) owned by the company that publishes this magazine, and half owned by a company (GE) that also half owns a cable channel (MSNBC) that is half owned by the employer of the author of this article, whose CEO (GE's, that is) nevertheless often appears on the cover...
When the 1980s and '90s turned into the age of personal investment--courtesy of the 401(k)--as well as celebrity capitalism--courtesy of Michael Milken's junk bonds and the bull market--MONEY was joined by a passel of rivals, including SmartMoney, Worth and Mutual Funds, each of which made the eternal promise of investment journalism--pssst, you can beat the market...