The Elizabeth Warren End-Around

Some questions on what Obama’s conflict avoidance means

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM

Well, surprise, surprise. President Obama ducks another fight by naming consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren as "special adviser" to set up... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Undoing?, FT Scoop, WSJ Nut Cracks

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 09:37 PM

Slate's Jack Shafer calls the News Corporation hacking scandal "Murdoch's Watergate" and says it "will undo the media mogul." I... More

The Mercury News’s Thinly Sourced Apple Scooplet

Some skepticism is in order

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 04:23 PM

I've criticized press coverage of Apple quite a bit. But I have to acknowledge something: The company's NSA-like secrecy makes... More

WSJ’s Welfare State Story Lacks Context

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a poorly done front-page story this morning trying to make the case that the U.S.... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin, Stone, and Schwarzman; WSJ Mag; Bloomberg on the VA

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 07:29 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin has a fun column in The New York Times this morning: An interview with Oliver Stone about... More

Freeland Tells Obama to Lay Off Big Business

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 01:39 PM

Reuters global editor at large Chrystia Freeland had an unfortunate column a few days ago in the Washington Post telling... More

Starkman on the Hamster Wheel

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman has the cover piece in the new issue of CJR looking at what he calls "The... More

Audit Notes: D’Souza and Forbes Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2010 at 05:16 PM

CNBC's Dennis Kneale takes issue with my description of Dinesh D'Souza's Forbes cover story on "How Obama Thinks" as "the... More

Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the “Other”

The worst kind of smear journalism by Dinesh D’Souza

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 13, 2010 at 01:05 PM

So it's come to this: Forbes cover story on "How Obama Thinks" is a gross piece of innuendo—a fact-twisting, error-laden... More

Audit Notes: HAMPered, FHA Criminals, Student Loan Racket

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 10, 2010 at 06:07 PM

David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times finds a couple booted out of their home by Wells Fargo, which had... More

The Slow SEC

Six months after Valukas, the Journal reports it’s zeroing in on Repo 105

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 10, 2010 at 01:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the SEC is focusing on Lehman Brothers' $50 billion Repo 105 accounting trick... More

The Bear Up There

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM

How about a break from all that bearish financial news? My pal Josh sends me this link and says, "it’s... More

Audit Notes: Out-of-State Campaign Dough, Expensive Bonds, Apple

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2010 at 07:40 PM

California Watch reports that big out-of-state polluters, including Koch Industries, are pouring millions of dollars into the campaign to overturn... More

Bloomberg Scoop: Rubin and Prince Knew

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 9, 2010 at 01:53 PM

Bloomberg gets a nice scoop that Robert Rubin and Chuck Prince knew about Citigroup's subprime losses while the company's CFO... More

The News Corp. Coverup

Memory-impaired execs, payments to key figures, and Keystone Kops

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2010 at 04:00 PM

News Corp.'s behavior in the UK hacking scandal has all the hallmarks of a coverup. We've got the scapegoat (Clive... More

A Different Angle on Sports Subsidies

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2010 at 11:20 AM

The New York Times fronts an excellent story this morning that ought to put another nail in the coffin of... More

Audit Notes: News Corp. Scandal, HSBC Hire, Dodd-Frank Repo

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 08:18 PM

The News of the World scandal, back in the spotlight thanks to The New York Times Magazine, continues to grow.... More

NYT Pushes BP’s PR Line on Its Ability to Pay

The massively profitable company’s poverty claim hits A1 of the Times—unchecked

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 06:23 PM

I defended The New York Times this morning. Let me lay into it a little bit this afternoon. On Friday,... More

Michael Wolff’s High Cynicism

An atrocious column about The New York Times’s News Corp. hacking scandal investigation.

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 7, 2010 at 12:37 PM

The Times drops this amazing story last week digging into how a Rupert Murdoch tabloid illegally hacked telephones, including those... More

A Fortune Look at Arizona’s Private Prisons

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM

A tip of the hat to this Fortune story from a couple of weeks back highlighting the prison-industrial complex in... More