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1. May 27, 2011 11:34 AM

   He-Said She-Said and Death Panels

   A Q&A with the Manship School’s Dr. Regina Lawrence

   By Joel Meares

   Almost two years ago, former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin sent out her infamous “death panels” post on Facebook. The media couldn’t resist the incendiary update. Soon, the two-word phrase—a demonstrable misrepresentation of the end-of-life counseling options proposed in the president’s health care plan—turned up the heat at Town Hall meetings and lodged itself in the discourse like a tough...

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2. August 31, 2012 11:07 AM

   The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked

   Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal's coverage of Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday, which was packed with one hypocrisy and misleading claim after another, has been awfully weak. On page one the day after, its story doesn't bother to fact check a single one of Ryan's claims, though even Wolf Blitzer knew immediately that many were bogus. Worse,...

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3. October 25, 2011 02:31 PM

   Austerity and Objectivity

   Why are spending cuts contractionary overseas but not here?

   By Ryan Chittum

   The top story in The Wall Street Journal today is interesting for what it says about how American papers are more willing to call it like they see it when they're writing outside the U.S. The piece focuses on new signs of a looming recession in Europe. What's interesting is how the paper explains why the Eurozone economy is faltering...

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4. December 17, 2010 03:14 PM

   Covering the Republicans’ Crisis Commission Document

   Bethany McLean shows why he said-she said reporting doesn't cut it

   By Ryan Chittum

   The four Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released their own report Wednesday on the causes of the financial crisis after voting—I kid you not—to ban the words "Wall Street," "shadow banking," "interconnection," and "deregulation" from the main report. Sure enough these words are nowhere to be found in their report. What can you say about that? How about...

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5. April 19, 2011 03:03 PM

   That Giant Sucking Sound

   WSJ: Big companies shed millions of jobs in 2000s while adding millions abroad

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal has your chart of the day. It shows that U.S.-based multinational corporations added 2.4 million workers overseas from 2000 to 2009, while cutting their U.S. workforce by 2.9 million. These come from a The Wall Street Journal story by the paper's economics editor David Wessel, who got these numbers from Commerce Department stats. To put it...

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6. November 10, 2011 05:33 PM

   The Big Lie of the Crisis, Called Out By the Press

   The false "banks didn't do it" meme takes hold on the right, as Romney showed last night

   By Ryan Chittum

   At CNBC's GOP debate last night, Mitt Romney showed that he, like Michael Bloomberg, buys into the Big Lie of the financial crisis, one that's unfortunately become conventional wisdom on the right: That the private sector only made hundreds of billions of dollars worth of toxic loans (and then made more than a hundred billion dollars worth of fake toxic...

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