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1. October 22, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: advising Obama, the leverage incentive, Jack Welch

   The NYT looks at the insider/outsider roles of Anita Dunn

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times had an excellent story this weekend on Anita Dunn, the Obama adviser who's got one foot in the private sector and one in his presidential campaign: And working on behalf of Pratt & Whitney, a military contractor, SKDK told other consultants that the administration appeared unwilling to move aggressively to kill a deal forcing the company...

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2. October 9, 2012 12:15 PM

   Audit Notes: BLS BS, another print turnaround forecast, deficits

   The LAT and CNBC let Jack Welch frame the jobs numbers

   By Ryan Chittum

   Don't miss Brendan Nyhan's excellent review of coverage of the unemployment-numbers conspiracy theory kicked off by Jack Welch on Friday. And I've got two more examples of poor press coverage to point out on this issue. The Los Angeles Times gave the nutty, evidence-free assertion the he said/she said treatment on the front of the business pages. Here's the lede:...

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3. October 8, 2012 06:50 AM

   Jack Welch and anti-business sentiment

   The former GE CEO, still a business press hero

   By Ryan Chittum

   Former GE CEO Jack Welch made waves last week claiming—with zero evidence—that the Obama administration manipulated the unemployment report that showed joblessness dropping to 7.8 percent last month. Now that's kooky. But it's not too surprising coming from Welch (whom I was writing this post about even before his conspiratorial tweet). Take for example the latest Fortune column by him...

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4. October 9, 2012 01:51 PM

   Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’

   Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage

   By Ryan Chittum

   I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after Bloomberg bought the magazine and installed Josh Tyrangiel as editor. As Tyrangiel later told Capital New York, "There was a lot management guru bullshit, to be honest. A lot of stuff about finding the best you, and I just thought,...

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