Comments on: United Airlines Bankruptcy: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:57:20 +0000

That kind of a situation definitely makes me not want to be a daytrader. With hindsight you think you would have bought it. But what if UAUA had really declared bankruptcy?
For example i believe that the day Enron declared its going under the stock fell from 4.00 to 60 cents before getting halted.

By: nickel

nickel — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:30:41 +0000

Mike: Newsflash. The date is listed in two places. Within the url itself…

/2008/09/09/united-…

and at the end of the article where it says:

“Published on September 9th, 2008″

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:58:41 +0000

I notice that the short article above is, itself, undated. There is a date in the URL window of the web site, but except for this comments section I can’t find a date anywhere on this page.

Newsflash: The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor!

By: art D

art D — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:57:24 +0000

This just an examle what reporting has become, no checks just put it out there without any research themselves, which could of been done very easily. also an example of the crediblity bloomberg reporters have and the paper, is this the way they report on everything?

By: Rich Gordon

Rich Gordon — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:58:04 +0000

This is indeed fascinating, and scary.

Check out this blow-by-blow on the Poynter Institute Web site:

http://www.poynter.org/column......aid=150236

… and this piece I wrote, which may explain how a 6-year-old news article suddenly got enough traffic on a Florida newspaper’s Web site to make the “most popular” list of business stories there:

http://www.readership.org/blog.....nited.html

Rich Gordon
Medill School, Northwestern University

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:25:52 +0000

What if posting the story years later wasn’t really an accident? That would be a great version of a reverse pump and dump if you were already shorting the shares and could react quickly enough.

By: Chris Holdheide

Chris Holdheide — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:19:51 +0000

What a scary site. The airline industry is already in trouble with higher fuel prices and now chargeing for items like pillows, blankets, and food.
On another note though this will the first time in 30 years that Southwest will be taking a loss and not actually make a profit. You know things are getting bad for the airlines when Southwest can’t even make a profit.

By: twenties money

twenties money — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:10:38 +0000

Items like this make me wish I were a day trader. Of course the reality of day trading is events like this don’t exactly happen every day. Day trading will sometimes pay off, this is an example of that, but long term investing and not paying attention to the ins and outs of the market is a much better strategy.

-Cheers

By: MultifolDream$

MultifolDream$ — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:03:31 +0000

The window has been so small from what I see that you should be staying in the online trader all day in order to catch it.
Sometimes you better not follow the market news arround the clock

By: tom

tom — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:24:49 +0000

i wish i bought in at $3

By: MoneyGrubbingLawyer

MoneyGrubbingLawyer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:29:48 +0000

I’d hate to be one of the poor shmucks who sold at $3…