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Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront
March 26, 2012 02:48 PMBusiness Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront. It doesn't run them to debunk them, mind you, but to back up its thesis that "The Media... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)
March 23, 2012 07:35 PMBloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey was the least corrupt state in the country—a result that should have flagged to CPI that something had gone... Continue reading
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The AP’s Weak Coverage of Its New Boss
March 23, 2012 03:07 PMThe Associated Press has a new CEO. So how does the AP cover it? Not very well. AP hired McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt to be its new CEO, which raises a couple of obvious questions. First: The AP hired... Continue reading
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The WSJ on the GOP’s $36 Million Man
March 22, 2012 06:10 PMThe Wall Street Journal has an excellent page-one story today on a billionaire you've probably never heard of who's become the biggest campaign donor in this election cycle, giving $18 million to GOP SuperPACs and candidates. By the time... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Skynet News, Gawker’s High-Low Strategy, Oil Speculators
March 22, 2012 03:13 AMEvgeny Morozov has a must-read piece at Slate on the rise of journalism bots, which Forbes now employs to write basic stories like earnings reports (emphasis mine): Yet the world of modern finance is increasingly dependent on automated... Continue reading
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Gawker Misreads the WSJ on Vaccines and Immunity (UPDATED)
March 22, 2012 02:42 AMGawker totally misreads a Wall Street Journal story on numbskulls who don't vaccinate their kids, writing that it means "Oregonian Religious Nuts Are Going to Give Us All Measles." There is a certain percentage of the population that... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Newspaper of the Year, Leverage, Wemple vs. Wolff
March 21, 2012 12:34 AMIn 2011, The Guardian had one of the best years any paper has ever had. Its reporting on the systemic corruption of the News of the World, The Sun, and the authorities gravely wounded the Murdoch empire, once virtually invincible... Continue reading
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The NYT Paywall Hums Along
March 20, 2012 03:34 PMThe New York Times's paywall continues to outperform expectations at its first birthday. The paper says it now has 454,000 paying digital subscribers. Those numbers are increasing at a healthy clip. Here are the numbers the Times has reported... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Responsible Populism, Tom Frank on Elites, Shlaes and Inflation
March 19, 2012 11:52 PMSimon Johnson writes about what he calls "responsible populism," not populism as it is so often portrayed in the press "in a pejorative way - as a putdown, implying “the people” want irresponsible things that would undermine the fabric of... Continue reading
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Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer
March 19, 2012 07:55 PMYou might think this is an Onion-style parody of a column by a right-wing think tanker: But it's no joke. It's the headline of a Forbes column by Ferrara, who works for... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Greg Smith, Mike Daisey, David Carr
March 16, 2012 08:35 PMQuote of the day goes either to Bloomberg or The Epicurean Dealmaker. It's a tough one. Bloomberg finds Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman saying this about Greg Smith's famous Goldman Sachs kissoff in The New York Times: Morgan... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: 1966 Wages, Fracking’s Chickens and Eggs, Whistleblowers
March 16, 2012 02:35 AMDavid Cay Johnston looks at the latest income-distribution data from Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and notes that in this recovery, unlike one that FDR oversaw, almost all the income gains have gone to the ultra-rich. Roosevelt brought in... Continue reading
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The NAA Newspaper Numbers
March 16, 2012 02:16 AMAlan Mutter looks at the 2011 numbers out of the Newspaper Association of America, which he notes were "quietly published." There's nothing to trumpet here. Print ads tumbled another 9 percent last year. That's a sixty-year low,... Continue reading
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Mad Libs, New York Times Executive Pay Edition
March 15, 2012 06:45 PMThe New York Times likes to inveigh against executive compensation practices on its editorial pages, and its newsroom has done tough work spotlighting the issue, too. Much of the work is not just about huge dollar amounts but <a... Continue reading
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Audit TV: Has the Business Press Failed the Public Trust?
March 14, 2012 07:58 PMAudit Boss Dean Starkman's cover story in the last issue of CJR argued that business journalism had narrowed its gaze at the expense of the public interest. Last week, CJR and Public Business hosted a discussion on that topic.... Continue reading
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Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs
March 14, 2012 02:06 PMIt's tempting to get all savvy and snarky about Greg Smith's op-ed in The New York Times this morning on why he's leaving Goldman Sachs. It's no small thing for someone in an omerta culture like Goldman's... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Fast Food Nation at 10, U.S. Inequality, Marilyn Hagerty
March 14, 2012 12:40 AMEric Schlosser revisits his muckraking epic Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal for The Daily Beast, writing that while some things are better, too much hasn't changed in the ten years since its publication: The... Continue reading
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American Banker Delves into Debt-Collecting Woes at Chase
March 13, 2012 03:26 PMIt looks more and more like the foreclosure scandal is a symptom of a larger problem. American Banker's Jeff Horwitz has another excellent report today on JPMorgan Chase's debt-collection practices, which his sources say included robosigned affadavits, shredded documents,... Continue reading
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Audit Notes: Charles Murray’s Lunch, Morgenson on Fairfax, Knight-Ridder’s iPad
March 12, 2012 07:59 PMThe Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders writes this on Twitter: What Charles Murray had for lunch while telling the FT that the working class had become culturally irresponsible The FT's Edward Luce did the <a... Continue reading
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A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post
March 9, 2012 07:58 PMNew Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post's page-one story on the high cost of the LED light bulb that just won a government prize. Bingaman's right. First, the... Continue reading
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