Are news websites selling us short?

"Just about everyone in media agrees these days that new business models are needed if internet journalism is to thrive," writes Jonathan Weber in his column, which appears each Tuesday on Times Online. "But a model in which the owner will make money from the fall of stocks he knows will be the subject of a negative story? Even though Mark Cuban has been clear from the beginning that this was the plan, it still seems odd and vaguely unclean. Can the journalism be trusted if we know that it's intended (or at least expected) to drive the stock down?"

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