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Fortune on the French
France’s “unproductive labor force” is, in fact, quite productive
By Ryan Chittum Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 AM
The abrasive tire CEO Maurice Taylor made news last week when he lashed out at French workers as "lazy" good-for-nothings.... More
Fortune’s Nina Easton plumps for Walmart in DC
Retail employment is a zero-sum game
By Ryan Chittum Jul 12, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The argument that if a company doesn't get its way, X number of jobs will disappear is an old canard... More
LAT on the U.S. As Low-Wage Offshoring Destination
By Ryan Chittum Apr 11, 2011 at 07:54 PM
Where does Ikea build a plant when it wants to offshore work to pay poverty wages, bust unions, force mandatory... More
NYT on How Unions Are Learning From Occupy Wall Street
By Ryan Chittum Nov 9, 2011 at 01:41 PM
The New York Times reports on how the American labor movement, whose membership and power have crumbled over the last... More
USA Today’s Ham-fisted Public Workers Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 1, 2011 at 05:47 PM
USA Today runs a poor story this morning that says its analysis finds that government workers make more in total... More
WSJ Slips Up on a Union Story
And its misses tilt toward the anti-labor side
By Ryan Chittum Feb 24, 2011 at 09:45 PM
The Wall Street Journal's page-one story yesteday on the union battle in Wisconsin erred on a few points, all of... More
Audit Notes: A Mirror For Scott Walker, SPJ Outraged at Blogger, Foreclosures
By Ryan Chittum Feb 23, 2011 at 08:07 PM
Steven Pearlstein goes into his columnists' bag of tricks to show how crazy Governor Scott Walker's agenda would be if... More
Audit Notes: Banks Mislead, The South and Unions, Shareholder Capitalism
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2011 at 07:58 PM
Adam Levitin of Georgetown Law and Credit Slips calls out the banking lobby for an "incredibly dishonest" attempt to mislead... More
Audit Notes: Decline of Labor Edition
Unions, inequality, and billionaires versus organized workers
By Ryan Chittum Jun 8, 2012 at 07:57 PM
The New Yorker's John Cassidy writes a smart post on the aftermath of labor's big defeat in Wisconsin and what... More
Audit Notes: Murdoch and American Politicians, UAW, Labor’s Bulletin Board Win
By Ryan Chittum Aug 26, 2011 at 07:37 PM
Does Rupert Murdoch interfere with his news outlets? Does a bear, well, you know... The Los Angeles Times has an... More
Audit Notes: Reproducibility, Daily Show, Boeing Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Dec 2, 2011 at 07:55 PM
The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story today reporting on how most peer-reviewed medical studies can't be... More
Audit Notes: Watchdog Blogging, Union Power, Stadium Economics
By Ryan Chittum Feb 22, 2011 at 07:46 PM
The blog Gin and Tacos makes a fantastic catch on Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's effort to take away the... More
Australian Media CEO’s Embarrassing Memo Mistake
Confirming eighty-two firings with “track changes” in place
By Joel Meares May 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM
What could be more embarrassing to a reporter than the incident from a couple of months ago when The Washington... More
Organizing via Facebook in the Age of Union-Busting
By Ryan Chittum Jun 15, 2011 at 08:18 PM
The New York Times's Steven Greenhouse has an interesting report today on a group of Walmart workers who are organizing—just... More
PolitiFact Shows A Fox Host Is Wrong, But Hedges Its Verdict (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Feb 28, 2011 at 01:03 PM
For an organization whose reason for being is to judge what's a fact and what's not, PolitiFact sure has a... More
ProPublica Shines a Light on Secret Gerrymandering Money
By Ryan Chittum Sep 23, 2011 at 01:48 PM
Every ten years, politicians get together in statehouses and redraw congressional districts to squeeze their opponents and entrench themselves in... More
Steve Brill’s Blinkered View of Education
By Felix Salmon Aug 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM
If you don’t have the time or inclination to read Steve Brill’s book on education reform, then his bombastic op-ed... More
The WSJ Overreaches On Wisconsin Democrats Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2011 at 02:24 PM
The Wall Street Journal went A1 with a big scoop this morning that "Democrats to End Union Standoff" in Wisconsin.... More
The Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Boycott
By Lauren Kirchner Mar 17, 2011 at 01:35 PM
The Newspaper Guild of America, which represents 26,000 media workers across the country, has called for a strike of unpaid... More
The NYT’s Incomplete Article on State Pension Plans
By Felix Salmon Mar 1, 2011 at 03:13 PM
Steven Greenhouse has a long article in today's NYT about an attempt by the states to deal with their "strained"... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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