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1. October 3, 2012 06:40 PM

   Forbes’s myth of the Reagan boom

   A columnist's misleading economic history

   By Ryan Chittum

   Peter Ferrara, currently of the climate-change denying Heartland Institute and formerly of Jack Abramoff's payroll and the Reagan and Bush I administrations, writes for Forbes that Mitt Romney will cut middle class taxes, no matter what Barack Obama's attack ads say. Maybe so, but since Romney's plan is mathematically impossible, the candidate doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. Romney's...

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2. March 29, 2011 04:23 PM

   A New Entry in the Health Care Lexicon

   Beware of “centralized medical planning”

   By Trudy Lieberman

   Lawrence Hunter, a contributor on Forbes.com, took on President Obama the other day, listing a number of White House initiatives that he apparently doesn’t like. The post is predictable, given Hunter’s pedigree—he once worked for conservative former New York congressman Jack Kemp, was an advisor in the Reagan administration, and is a former vice president and chief economist for the...

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3. November 16, 2012 03:08 AM

   Audit Notes: Papacare, Post problem, trade reporting

   Forbes finds Papa John's Obamacare math doesn't add up

   By Ryan Chittum

   Papa 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 dime extra on a $10 or $15 pizza to insure your pizza delivery guy?) but Papa John, from his 40,000...

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4. November 29, 2010 07:19 PM

   Audit Notes: Up Next For Wikileaks: The Banks, Forbes, Gaming Google

   By Ryan Chittum

   Julian Assange is Forbes's cover boy this week. No surprise there. He just turned the diplomatic community on its head with a mass release of U.S. secrets. But it's not your typical man-in-the-news profile. Andy Greenberg sits down with Assange and gets a big scoop: That Wikileaks in several weeks will release a big email dump from a major U.S....

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5. April 7, 2011 03:36 PM

   Bercovici Is Wrong on “Journalism 2.0” Causing Afghan Murders

   By Ryan Chittum

   Forbes's Jeff Bercovici would like you to know that those UN workers murdered in Afghanistan after a Florida Koran-burning were killed by Journalism 2.0. Seriously. He tweeted this: When Journalism 2.0 kills: A college kid's reporting caused 24 deaths in Afghanistan. Here's how. Here's his headline: When Journalism 2.0 Kills And he writes: Twenty-four people in Afghanistan, including seven U.N....

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6. December 24, 2010 01:20 PM

   Best of 2010: Ryan Chittum

   Chittum picks his top stories from 2009 2010

   By Ryan Chittum

   Business Journalism on Prozac: A look at an issue of Fortune finds the magazine painting a picture of the corporate world so rosy it’s almost unrecognizable. While it’s individual pieces may be accurate (and for that matter worthwhile), the whole adds up to something that’s deeply misleading. The Real Dow. The press almost never reports stock prices in context. It...

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7. September 28, 2012 06:50 AM

   Billionaires made from scratch? Hardly

   Forbes spins a bogus Horatio Alger story about its 400 richest list

   By Ryan Chittum

   Forbes touts its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires as evidence "that the American dream is still very much alive," claiming that 70 percent of them "made their fortunes entirely from scratch." I noted that in a post the other day, and questioned whether it was true. Its not. The liberal group United for a Fair Economy...

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8. February 9, 2011 07:02 PM

   Bloomberg and BusinessWeek’s Problematic WikiLeaks Story

   Red flags aflutter as the news outfit runs with seriously questionable evidence

   By Ryan Chittum

   How many red flags can we count in this Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece on WikiLeaks? First there's the headline: Is Wikileaks Hacking For Secrets? I, like my colleague Lauren Kirchner, have a real problem with question headlines, which seem to have proliferated in recent years. On the bright side, they're good leads for critics like us: It's a sure sign that...

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9. January 10, 2011 01:16 PM

   Climate Conundrums

   Slack coverage, quality issues stir debate

   By Curtis Brainard

   2010 was “the year climate coverage ‘fell off the map,’” The Daily Climate, a website that tracks related news and media stories, reported last Wednesday. The assertion, based on a review of the site’s own database as well as others assembled by Drexel University’s Robert Brulle and the University of Colorado’s Maxwell Boykoff, is just one of a string of...

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10. January 6, 2011 01:20 PM

    Tele-what?

    Reporters must embrace the future with coverage of remote health monitoring

    By Neil Versel

    As a journalist who for the last decade has covered the use of information technology in health care, I’m rather disgusted at some of my brethren in the mass media. I’m none too happy with the medical establishment, either. Both seem hopelessly stuck in the past, refusing to look beyond the status quo. And the public suffers because of it....

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11. April 18, 2012 07:17 PM

    The New York Times Company in 2015

    Trendlines--as of right now--don't point to its demise

    By Ryan Chittum

    Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? That's unknowable, of course. A lot can happen between now and then. But extrapolating from current trends can give us an idea of where things are going. That's what Ironfire Capital's Eric Jackson does for Forbes, arguing that trendlines suggest that the "basket-case" of a company likely...

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12. March 19, 2012 07:55 PM

    Why Making More Money Is Groovy, And Makes You Richer

    By Ryan Chittum

    You 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 the Heartland Institute, the kind of climate-change denialist organization that argues that it isn't happening, but even if it was, hottin' up the planet is a good thing,...

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