Blodget Asks a Taboo Question on Wages and Profits

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 16, 2012 at 04:08 PM

I like this Henry Blodget thought experiment on how much more major companies could afford to compensate their ill-paid employees.... More

Business Insider and Financial Press Sensationalism

Henry Blodget & Co. stroke the id of the Internet

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 3, 2010 at 12:37 PM

What business press readers always lacked but never really needed was a tabloid sensationalist to hype up mundane markets and... More

Business Insider and Over-Aggregation

By Felix Salmon   Sep 30, 2011 at 09:32 AM

Henry Blodget has a long and detailed response to Marco Arment, which is fascinating to anybody interested in the nuts... More

Business Insider’s Barcelona Junket

By Felix Salmon   Feb 18, 2011 at 08:39 AM

Victoria Barret reports on the nice little deal that Dan Frommer has going on in Barcelona: "Samsung was generous enough... More

GE Flubs a Pushback Against The New York Times

The company can’t—or won’t—get its story straight on taxes

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 31, 2011 at 11:24 AM

General Electric went into full public-relations pushback mode after The New York Times's damaging story Friday on how it avoids... More

LinkedIn Bubble Trouble

How to report (and what not to leave out) on signs of frothiness in Silicon Valley

By Ryan Chittum   May 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM

I've had a bit of a back and forth on Twitter in the last day with Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal,... More

Misinformation On Killed and Injured Photographers

Sad news brings a lesson on caution

By Joel Meares   Apr 20, 2011 at 03:59 PM

There has been much confusion in the wake of reports that documentary filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed today in... More

Sourcing Trayvon Martin “Photos” From Stormfront

Not a good idea, Business Insider

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 26, 2012 at 02:48 PM

Business Insider runs a linkbait post with a graphic of Trayvon Martin images it found on the neonazi website Stormfront.... More

The AP Falls For a Bogus Press Release

No excuse for that silly mistake but points for cleaning up the mess

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 13, 2011 at 01:59 PM

Henry Blodget wants to know if we're going to blast the Associated Press for falling for a hoax press release... More

The Huffington Post’s Tainted Money

The befuddled legacy customers of AOL fund a bubble-era premium for Arianna & Company

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 7, 2011 at 05:12 PM

Say what you will about Arianna Huffington's decision to sell out to AOL—and we will below—she's no dummy. Of the... More