I thought I had long since heard the last of “The Insurance Hoax,” a pure hatchet job in the September 2007 issue of “Bloomberg Markets” that indicted the entire insurance industry for its claims-handling practices. But much to my astonishment, the skewed diatribe has been chosen as a finalist for a prestigious journalism award. Stop the presses!
Thank goodness, the authors of the controversial piece–Gary Cohn, David Dietz and Darrell Preston–were not nominated for a Pulitzer Prize! But their article was picked with two others for a possible Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting, given out by the New York City Deadline Club–an affiliate of The Society Of Professional Journalists.
As a member of the club (although no longer active) and a proud member of the journalism profession, I am appalled that this article is actually up for an award. (To read the piece, click here. And to read my original blog on the controversy it generated, click here.)
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