Outing The Fed. Remembering Mark Pittman.

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Who sues the Fed? One reporter on the planet,”
said Emma Moody, a Wall Street Journal editor who worked with Pittman at Bloomberg.

Bloomberg, November 30.

The Pittman Way

A financial reporter who combined data and attitude

By Dean Starkman

Q: Tell me how your cops background plays into what you’re doing now.

A: You end up with a big BS detector as a cops reporter because the cops lie to you, the victims lie to you, the people helping the victims lie to you. And you’ve got to sort through, and there will be a story that seems a certain way, and it just won’t be—and you know it. That’s what this is about.

So Mark Pittman died last week.

The reason this is important is not just that Pittman was a great reporter, though he was that. “One of the great financial journalists of our time,” Joe Stiglitz says. That is true. He did do great stories. He won the Loeb; he had a Pulitzer coming one of these days. That was inevitable. Financial journalism lost a leading practitioner at the worst possible time.

more at CJR: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/what_ill_remember_about_mark_p.php

Remembering Mark Pittman:

Mark Pittman, A Close Friend, Great Reporter, And The First Person To Sue The Fed And Win, Has Died

Tyler Durden on 11/27/2009 21:43 -0500


Mark Pittman, the Loeb Award-winning Bloomberg journalist, a personal friend, a legendary financial reporter and the first person to sue the Fed (in conjunction with Bloomberg News) and win, passed away on Wednesday. He was 52. Our thoughts are with his family.

Bloomberg's brief on Mark's legacy:

Mark Pittman, Reporter Who Challenged Fed Secrecy, Dies at 52

more: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mark-pittman-close-friend-great-reporter-and-first-person-sue-fed-and-win-has-died


What a shame we couldn't have his commentary yesterday on the passage of the Sanders amendment.


Audit Interview: Mark Pittman Feb 2009 (CJR)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x499174#top


At the time of his death, Pittman’s outgoing messages offered a link to a black-and-white photo of folk musician Woody Guthrie. Written on Guthrie’s guitar: “This machine kills fascists.”

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1. Apparently Zero Hedge met with Mr. Pittman just days before he died

Zero Hedge staffers met with Mark days before his death at which point we discovered he was working on a major financial expose. We would be humbled to pick up the torch and bring his last opus to closure.

We are sure Bloomberg News will keep Mark's spirit alive, and will continue his lifelong pursuit of eliminating secrecy and opacity, and bringing truth and justice to all corners of high finance.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/mark-pittman-close-friend-great-reporter-and-first-person-sue-fed-and-win-has-died

May his memory and his legacy to investigative reporting live on.