Audit Arbiter

  1. September 28, 2011 01:40 AM

    A Frustrating AP Series on Nuclear Safety

    The industry's blunder-buss response doesn't help; public left confused

    By Irene M. Wielawski


    Editor's note: This is an installment of our Audit Arbiter series, which looks into complaints about business news stories. If there's something we should take a look at, write dean@deanstarkman.com.

    The Associated Press didn’t pick a soft target when it decided to examine potential safety risks associated with the aging of America's nuclear power plants.

    Because of...

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  2. May 31, 2011 03:38 PM

    Apology Due

    Audit Arbiter says Felix Salmon was off-base and needlessly mean in a 2007 post on a columnist

    By Martha M. Hamilton


    Felix Salmon, an Audit contributor, asked for an arbiter to look into the complaints of a writer named Sean Olender. Olender had e-mailed Salmon in May about a Market Mover blog Salmon wrote in 2007, attacking an opinion piece by Olender in the San Francisco Chronicle a few days before.

    "I was certainly too bullish on...

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  3. December 29, 2010 12:15 PM

    Prudential’s Death Benefits for Soldiers: Bloomberg Gets it (Mostly) Right

    CJR's Audit Arbiter finds no merit to many of an insurer’s beefs about the financial wire’s probe

    By Martha M. Hamilton


    The complaint came from Bob DeFillippo, chief communication officer for Prudential Financial, Inc., who fired it off the day that The Audit's Ryan Chittum gave a thumbs up to Bloomberg's David Evans in an Audit Notes.


    Chittum's assessment of "good work" was for Evans' reporting on a life insurance industry practice of retaining...

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  4. April 14, 2010 01:08 PM

    How 60 Minutes Missed on Chevron

    A piece on the oil giant and the rainforest last year relies too much on innuendo

    By Martha M. Hamilton

    "Play CBS Video." The arrow is superimposed on an image of old, rusting oil barrels emblazoned with Texaco's name.

    "Chevron is America's third-largest company, behind ExxonMobil and WalMart," intones correspondent Scott Pelley. "One way it got that big was by buying Texaco in 2001. Now that purchase of Texaco has pulled Chevron into a titanic struggle in the...

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