Bloomberg

Bloomberg   (Corporate media)
Founder	Michael Bloomberg
Headquarters	Bloomberg Tower 731 Lexington Avenue,  New York City,  New York,  United States
Staff	19,000
Media empire owned by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

Not to be confused with its billionaire owner Michael Bloomberg

Bloomberg News was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990, to deliver financial news reporting to Bloomberg terminal subscribers. In 2000, Bloomberg News included more than 2,300 editors and reporters in 100 countries. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through the Bloomberg terminal, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg.com. Since 2015, John Micklethwait has been editor-in-chief.

Propaganda straight from US government

Bloomberg Mockingbird headline on February 25.

In March 2019, the Russian phone pranksters 'Vova' and 'Lexus' managed to deceive the US envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams. They called him and pretended to be the "president of Switzerland" and asked what they should do with the Venezuelan money that was in accounts of a fictitious Swiss bank called "Limpopo", by an equally fictitious "Baidilda"-fund. Abrams fell for it, and wanted to freeze the Venezuelan money in the accounts, or better, transfer it directly to the unsuccessful coup plotter Juan Guaidó.

The "Swiss president" agreed, but he noted that the money was "clean" and there was no legal way to freeze the accounts. Abrams then asked what the "Swiss president" needed. The answer was: "Information that these funds were received by criminal or other illegal means".

They agreed to clarify the details by e-mail and then Abrams offered that Bloomberg would publish an article that would reveal "money laundering" by President Nicolas Maduro, so that Switzerland would then have a legal pretext. Abrams sent the text of the article to the "Swiss President" so that he could make corrections. The article was published by Bloomberg on February 25, 2019. Bloomberg did not even google the name of the bank or the fund, which would have exposed the story as false.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Anatoly Kurmanaev	“"Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense. You’re there to provide information to a particular client that they find important and it's not good or bad, it’s just the way it is...A couple of times from my experience you try to use, I wouldn’t call them 'cheap tricks', but yeah, kind of sexy tricks. Just last week we had a story about condom shortages in Venezuela. At the official exchange rate condoms were at like $750 dollars or something and the headline was something like ‘$750 dollar condom in Venezuela’ and everyone clicks it, everyone is like 'Jesus, why do they sell it for like $750?'" (We don't learn until the ninth paragraph of Kurmanaev's article that a pack of condoms actually cost about the same as it did in the US at the time.)”	Anatoly Kurmanaev	2019

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Leonid Bershidsky	Journalist	2014
Justin Fox	Journalist	2015
Mishal Husain	News presenter	1996	1998
Anatoly Kurmanaev	Economy & Government Reporter	December 2012	October 2015	"Every journalist has an audience he caters for and in my case, it’s the financial community. You are a mercenary in a sense."
Norman Pearlstine	Chief content officer	June 2008	2013
Ailbhe Rea	Associate Editor	February 2024
Adrian Wooldridge	Global Business Columnist.	September 2021		Witnessed a dozen Bilderberg meetings.

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