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Tale of Two Citis

It took an obscure magazine to reveal how Sandy Weill built his empire on subprime lending. Why?

A long time ago, before the turn of the century, subprime lending was a marginal business—economically, ethically, every way. The... More

$70-Million Nit

Los Angeles Times , Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, Fox, CNN, MSNBC make common error in reporting Rather’s lawsuit

Reminder to headline writers and reporters on the Dan Rather-CBS lawsuit story: He didn't file a "$70-million lawsuit" last week.... More

Lovers of the Press, Liberty Must Root for Cubs

A call to patriots everywhere

As a Burkean liberal and paleo-librarian of longstanding, like many of you, The Audit has long understood that the Chicago... More

Our Score: Murdoch 2 - Journalism 0

No Ingrassia book, Varadarajan quits as readers learn to play by Austrialian rules

Kudos to Keith J. Kelly of News Corp.'s New York Post who has more scoops this week. He says Larry... More

Greenspan, Iraq, Oil. How’s that again?

The WSJ and NYT underplay Greenspan role as “behind-the-scenes advocate” for invading Iraq. Woodward and Post get it right.

In the second-to-last paragraph of a story on page A3 Monday, The Wall Street Journal says Alan Greenspan was "himself... More

“The Insurance Hoax” and the Business Press

Bloomberg Markets’s latest cover story and a Times piece perform a valuable service; Forbes and WSJ editorialists blow key Katrina fact

When applying for a grant last year from George Soros's Open Society Institute to report on the insurance industry's response... More

Down With The Conflict-of-Interest Police

Anonymice wrong again: It’s fine for former WSJ-current NYT editor to do a book on his old company

The New York Post's well-sourced Keith J. Kelly published a good item last week saying that a book idea floated... More

Per Suits

The Journal works on Saturday

People familiar with goings-on at The Wall Street Journal tell The New York Times that Wall Street's top watchdog is... More

The Subprime Mess From Mount Olympus

Why James Grant’s long view comes up short

Who’s to blame? The human race, first and foremost. Well-intended public policy, second. And Wall Street, third — if... More

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An L.A. Times story on aging Holocaust survivors

The Los Angeles Times has a poignant story today on research that shows how the long-supressed memories of Holocaust survivors... More

Prime and Subprime

The New York Times and Business Week led on subprime coverage. Others didn’t.

The business press can always be counted on to explain in authoritative detail why we just lost a trillion dollars.... More

Dow Jones Down

The WSJ editorial page launches baseless attacks on its competitors’ motives—it will fit right in at News Corp.

And so Dow Jones & Co., once the proud lion of financial news, goes down instead like a jackrabbit shot... More

Why the Dow Jones Vote Matters

It’s about the stories

NEW YORK -- Last Nov. 14, 38-year-old Martin A. Siegel, one of Wall Street's leading investment bankers, was spending the... More

Don’t Listen to Searby

Or other Wall Street analysts about newspapers

The New York Times Co. reported yesterday that its second-quarter earnings fell from the same period a year ago.... More

What the Bancrofts Owe Dow Jones

In return for a century of dividends, a “no” and a graceful exit

It's on the Bancrofts now. That hard-bargaining Dow Jones & Co. board has agreed to sell the Bancroft's patrimony for... More

The Right Prescription in the Journal

The Wall Street Journal gives Big Pharma’s state house lobbying an MRI

Kudos and a smart salute to Sarah Rubenstein and the WSJ for a tough and intelligent story on Big Pharma... More

Parsing the Anonymice at Dow Jones and the Journal

The Times lets unnamed “senior editors” and a “person close to Dow Jones management” nudge the Murdoch sale along

This New York Times piece from Monday says an unnamed person connected to Dow Jones management and unnamed senior editors... More

Independence Day

No time for sunshine patriots at Dow Jones

Yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. —Tom Paine, The... More

Why News Corp. Can’t Cover the U.S. Business Story

It is the story

The business press, I have to say, has done a terrific job vetting News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch as potential... More

Missing Michael Hastings

One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write

Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies

Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him

Snowden versus the dragons

Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?

Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch

The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase

Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings

“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”

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