Jeffrey Peek & The WSJ
The CEO Left Off the Lifeboat
CIT’s Peek Staked It All on a Bailout from Washington
The article is linked in this post, you can go there to read all about all the details and the downright embarrassing behavior of another white man in a suit. Basically it looks like Jeffrey Peek’s CIT will be the fifth largest bankruptcy in US history and according to the WSJ article (and the US Government), all CIT did to avoid it was ask for a bailout.
* – update: it now appears CIT will get their BAILOUT. I am done with this story, I think, you want/need this image however, please contact me….
I photographed Jeffrey Peek in 2003 just before he left one large place for another.
Dear Wall Street Journal,
I understand the who made what and why is not important to you, it’s all about the story. Yet when you spell the name of a photographer’s credit incorrectly (who you’ve published before correctly) it calls into very serious question the fact checking of your entire article.
Sincerely,
Jonathan – (that’s JONATHAN SAUNDERS – in case anyone is checking).
It was spelled wrong in both the print edition (page 1) and online.
About 20 days ago, yes days ago, the NY Post did the same thing by spelling my name wrong on another big story. I would of by nature given the Wall Street Journal a leg up on the Post, but maybe it’s just a newspaper thing?
The very morning of the request for the Jeffrey Peek image I photographed a portfolio manager. He was a very nice man and we had a good shoot. As I was leaving he made a remark about the Madoff debacle at which point I confessed that the image that was floating around out there of him was mine…. He laughed and then I told him to behave himself, I now had an image of him too. I think he thought that was funny but I really cannot be sure.