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Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall
November 30, 2012 06:50 AMThe investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus is a multilevel marketing company that promises ordinary folks a shot at financial success based solely on their skill... Continue reading
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The Audit
Hot air Rises Above on CNBC
November 30, 2012 12:41 AMRise Above, if you're among the 99.95 percent of the country who don't watch CNBC on a given day, is the network's campaign against the government for not putting "politics" aside to come to a budget agreement that's... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: WaPo on Avandia, giving away the store, plutocrats
November 29, 2012 06:50 AMThe Washington Post's Peter Whoriskey has another outstanding story in his series on the Avandia drug scandal at GlaxoSmithKline and what it says about the corruption of our system for testing the safety and efficacy of drugs. Years ago,... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: FT’s Fairhead is out; BofA CEO stonewalls; Rent a Quote
November 28, 2012 06:50 AMFT Group CEO Rona Fairhead got denied the top job at Pearson and so is stepping down as chairman and CEO of its unit the FT Group, with a $1.8 million exit package. The Guardian's Nils Pratley asks a... Continue reading
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The Audit
Amazon sharecroppers
November 27, 2012 06:50 AMThe Seattle Times has another good story on Amazon, this time reporting on the hometown giant's lopsided relationship with its third-party retailers. Amazon's Marketplace is a digital consignment store that allows merchants to sell their stuff on Amazon.com... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: not Fortune tellers; Foursquare, two million; Big Ten
November 23, 2012 06:50 AMFortune peered into its crystal ball for the October 29 issue and came up with four "best bets" on who's in line to replace four tech CEOs, presumably years down the road (although it's a wonder how Steve Ballmer continues... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: the free model, Coulson and Brooks, another DOJ stunt
November 21, 2012 06:50 AMThe free model isn't just a failure for newspapers. It doesn't work in music either, as this terrific Pitchfork piece by former Galaxie 500 co-founder Damon Krukowski shows. Krukowski discloses some of his band's royalty payments from Pandora... Continue reading
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The Audit
Rise Above, CNBC’s move into advocacy
November 20, 2012 02:57 PMAny time you see Wall Street CEOs and CNBC campaigning for what they call the common good, it's worth raising an eyebrow or two. So it is with CNBC's "Rise Above" crusade, which has blanketed its airwaves and adorned its... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: marginal taxes, a redesign for core readers, Murdoch
November 20, 2012 06:50 AMThe New York Times flubs some reporting on how investors and well off people are bracing for higher tax rates: Kristina Collins, a chiropractor in McLean, Va., said she and her husband planned to closely monitor the business income... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: hustled, Brauchli fallout, NYT’s Walmart impact
November 19, 2012 06:50 AMProPublica's Paul Kiel reports (with an assist from TheStreet) that the JPMorgan Chase executive in charge of its program to pay foreclosure-scandal victims was implicated by the feds last month in their fraud case against Countrywide. The executive,... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting
November 16, 2012 03:08 AMPapa John's CEO John Schnatter has been carping for some time that Obamacare will add 10 to 14 cents to the price of a pizza. That sounds like an argument for the health care law rather than against it (a... Continue reading
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The Audit
Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task
November 15, 2012 06:50 AMI can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry more than Marcus Brauchli's. Brauchli got the top job at The Wall Street Journal hours after learning that Rupert... Continue reading
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The Audit
Apples and oranges on Google and publishers
November 14, 2012 06:50 AMSlate tells us that "Google ad revenue tops entire US print media industry" in the first six months of the year, based off this chart from a German outfit called Statista: Business Insider makes... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: WaPo on the Bain thing, deadbeat Forbes, hamster wheel
November 13, 2012 08:06 PMThe Washington Post apparently doesn't understand just how toxic Wall Street and its even more rapacious cousin, private equity—not popular in good times—really is now. The paper actually thought it might have been an error for Obama to attack... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: Whinin’ Dimon, Elizabeth Warren, WSJ on Petraeus
November 13, 2012 06:50 AMI got a chuckle from Mark Gongloff's Huffington Post piece on Jamie Dimon taking his anti-administration whining to the friendly confines of CNBC: Dimon on Friday afternoon did his whining on CNBC, which has become a sort of Dr.... Continue reading
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The Audit
Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive
November 12, 2012 06:50 AMThe stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report, the testing ground/early-warning system for right-wing memes, put the Dow as its top post-election story, telling Obama to "own it":... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: low-info billionaires, Trump the taker, Elizabeth Warren
November 9, 2012 06:50 AMOne of the things this election proved conclusively is that even billionaires can be low-information voters. Here's Bloomberg BusinessWeek on billionaire David Siegel, the guy who's building the a 90,000 square foot house and who all but told... Continue reading
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The Audit
WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign
November 8, 2012 06:50 AMThe Wall Street Journal fronts an interesting but seriously flawed story this morning headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney." You can probably see the conceptual problem here right away: When was it Romney's to lose? He led in... Continue reading
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The Audit
Audit Notes: FT denies Bloomberg report, Drudge stats, financialization
November 7, 2012 06:50 AMBloomberg News reports that Pearson is considering putting the Financial Times up for sale, as Michael Wolff predicted a month ago. Pearson Plc is planning to explore a sale of the Financial Times newspaper as the company... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists
November 6, 2012 06:50 AMThis New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers for selling ads against their headlines. But this stat from the head of France's newspaper and magazine association caught... Continue reading
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