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1. March 1, 2011 05:47 PM

   USA Today’s Ham-fisted Public Workers Story

   By Ryan Chittum

   USA Today runs a poor story this morning that says its analysis finds that government workers make more in total compensation (wages plus benefits) than private-sector workers in forty-one states. And so it does, but this is a case when stats are very misleading. Amazingly, USA Today doesn't take into account factors like education that account for the differences in...

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2. February 24, 2011 09:45 PM

   WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story

   And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal's page-one story yesteday on the union battle in Wisconsin erred on a few points, all of which skew coverage against the union side. First the paper misleads readers by implying that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker campaigned on taking away collective bargaining rights from government workers: Several of the new governors ran campaigns promising to go after...

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3. February 22, 2011 07:46 PM

   Audit Notes: Watchdog Blogging, Union Power, Stadium Economics

   By Ryan Chittum

   The blog Gin and Tacos makes a fantastic catch on Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's effort to take away the right to organize from most of the state's public unions and cut their pay. Buried in the bill is language that would allow Walker's administration to privatize state-owned power plants on terms only a Russian oligarch could love: with or...

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4. March 25, 2011 12:49 PM

   Governor’s Inbox Puts Deputy Prosecutor Out (Updated)

   Walker’s e-mails give Wisconsin watchdog a story

   By Joel Meares

   A young Indiana deputy prosecutor has resigned after an interesting journalistic project sprung from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s release of e-mails to a Wisconsin weekly and the AP. You’ll remember Tuesday’s AP story in which the organization parsed more than 26,000 e-mails sent to the governor’s office in February. The AP created a database of the e-mails sent from the...

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5. February 28, 2011 01:03 PM

   PolitiFact Shows A Fox Host Is Wrong, But Hedges Its Verdict (UPDATED)

   By Ryan Chittum

   For an organization whose reason for being is to judge what's a fact and what's not, PolitiFact sure has a funny idea of what "true" means. Or "Barely True," as it says. Audit commenter Thimbles points to a PolitiFact piece on Fox Business Network anchor Eric Bolling. Bolling told a whopper on air, and PolitiFact is good to point out...

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6. February 24, 2011 02:10 PM

   Ryan Chittum on Unions, Apple, and Madoff: A CJR Podcast

   By The Editors

   In CJR's latest podcast, assistant editor Lauren Kirchner speaks with Ryan Chittum, deputy editor of The Audit on CJR.org, about some of this week's most interesting stories. They discuss the Wisconsin protests over union rights and what might happen next; why Apple's price-gouging on iPad apps can't last; and what the latest developments in the Bernie Madoff saga mean for...

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7. March 7, 2011 02:24 PM

   The WSJ Overreaches On Wisconsin Democrats Story

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal went A1 with a big scoop this morning that "Democrats to End Union Standoff" in Wisconsin. Big news! Problem is, some of the Democrats said immediately that the story was wrong, and its main source quickly walked back what the Journal says. Here's what the Journal wrote: Sen. Mark Miller said he and his fellow Democrats...

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