Chapter 17
Perusing Periodicals, Radio, and Television
In This Chapter
Sifting through financial magazines and newspapers
Surveying radio and television programs
Steering clear of most investment newsletters
Newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and radio and television programs inundate you and other investors with a constant barrage of investing information and advice. In this chapter, I explain what to look for — and what to look out for — when you tune in to these traditional media sources in the hopes of investing better.
In Print: Magazines and Newspapers
Visit a newsstand, and you find many investing publications as well as general interest publications with investing columns. I’ve written investing articles for various magazines and newspapers. Some of the experiences have been enjoyable, others okay, and a few miserable. The best publications and editors I’ve written for take seriously their responsibility to provide quality information and advice to their readers.
Taking the scribes to task
Perusing high-quality publications is fun, but reading those that include tons of hype and inaccurate information is mind-numbing. In the following sections, I discuss the problems with ...
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