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Not a Laughing Matter: The Negative Effects of Satirical News When Jon Stewart announced his retirement from The Daily Show in 2015, headlines lamented the end of reason in the news. A New Yorker article declared that “The last hope for bringing some rationality to the 2016 Presidential field died” (Sorkin). In other instances, Jon Stewart has been compared to Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow, who are famed for not only their voices that reached out to the nation but also their journalism that

It made big news when Jon Stewart announced that he would be leaving “The Daily Show.” His last show is scheduled to be this August 6th and it will undoubtedly have huge ratings as millions watch him for the last time in the hosting role that he honed for two decades. There was endless speculation about who would be replacing him until comedian Trevor Noah was finally announced end of this past March who will be filling his huge comedic shoes this coming September. It is worth taking a look at who

security of her home basement, she’s Martha Stewart. That last bit might sound a little far fetched but it’s true. In fact, Martha Stewart has done more than just that, proving that she is a highly capable and successful entrepreneur. As founder, chairman, and former CEO of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, the author of many books and magazines on cooking, entertaining, and decoration, and the host of her own television programs, she had to begin somewhere. Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on

Martha Stewart scandal was the topic of the century for several months because she received information to sell her shares of stock from a company called ImClone that went belly up before the information was even publicized. As a result of the rejection the company stock prices dropped drastically, but it did not hurt Stewart since she had already sold her stock from receiving inside information to do so, therefore was Martha Stewart guilty of removing her stock when it was not even publicized to

no. 1-0083 Martha Stewart and the ImClone Scandal On January 20, 2004, jury selection launched the trial of Martha Stewart, Chief Creative Officer and former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO). Nine charges filed by the Federal Grand Jury in New York and the SEC relate to Stewart’s personal sale of $228,000 in ImClone Systems, Inc. stock on December 27, 2001, one day before regulators rejected the biotech company’s cancer drug (Erbitux)

Abstract The case is about Martha Stewart, the queen of home improvement in the US. The case highlights the emergence of Martha Stewart as an entrepreneur and the establishment of her company in the late 1990s. The case also outlines the decline of the ‘Martha Stewart’ brand and the subsequent fall in revenues of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia after she was indicted in the Imclone stock scandal. After serving the sentence in 2005, Martha made a comeback with TV shows, a self-authored

Martha Rules follows in the footsteps of Martha Stewart, where she analyzes and suggests many strong features in the business world and in life as well. Looking into the business world, I saw it from a student point of view; scary, intimidating, and uneasy to figure out. Analyzing the title, The Martha Rules, I expected a book with a multitude of rules that would be explained minimally with little experience and background. From watching Martha Stewart, I understood her fame account and her role in

On December 27th, 2001, Martha Stewart sold her stake in a biotech company known as ImClone. Two days later, the Food and Drug Administration said it had rejected ImClone’s main drug, Erbitux, for cancer treatment, causing the company’s stock to drop by 16 percent (Leite, 2012). Sam Waksal, the CEO of Imclone, and Martha Stewart shared the same broker, Peter Bacanovic. Prior to Martha Stewart selling her shares of ImClone, Sam Waksal had let go of his $5 million stake in the company. This information

2001 public celebrity Martha Stewart sold stock in a large biotech company named ImClone. This act landed her in a large amount of trouble with the Federal Government and the SEC. She was held to trial and many things were told and discussed throughout the trial case. Through this research you will see several people’s sides and statements they made during the jury trial and throughout the whole case. On December 29, 2001, just two days after Celebrity Martha Stewart sold her stock in ImClone, the

Martha Stewart, founder and CEO of her own multimillion dollar corporation, Martha Stewart Living Omni media was indicted, on charges of lying to investigators, securities manipulation, and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to five months in a West Virginia state woman’s prison and 5 months on house arrest. Originally it was said that Ms. Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading, however obviously those charges could not be proven. After a year and a half investigation, she was