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Live-blogging GM


Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 - 6:27pm

Now that we have Twitter, I don’t much see the point in live-blogging events if your goal is simply to tell people what’s happening, rather than why or what it means. The New York Times’ Micheline Maynard live-blogged GM’s third-quarter financial report today, but besides telling us what CEO Fritz Henderson said, or how he responded to this or that reporter’s question, there isn’t much that tells us the significance of the information dispensed.

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.

Nitpicking GM’s Third-Quarter Results


Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 - 4:32pm

The Wall Street Journal has a good rundown of General Motors’ third-quarter results, reported today, which have the new company losing $1.15 billion but making money in China as well as achieving profits on some of its new vehicles.

  • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.