The Audit
ABC Scoop: JPMorgan Still in the Gilded Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Good reporting here by ABC News's I-team, led by Brian Ross, on multiple-time public-money recipient JPMorgan Chase's over-the-top plans for... More
WSJ’s Good Nuts-and-Bolts Reporting
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM
The Journal, slogging through disclosure filings, writes today that AIG lobbied Congress nearly twice as much on taxes as it... More
NYT lets NBC’s Zucker Spin Away
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2009 at 08:52 AM
I'd like to tweak the Times a bit for letting NBC/CNBC spin (read: lie) on Stewart vs. Cramer without calling... More
Journal: Credit Raters In Line for “Windfall”
By Ryan Chittum Mar 20, 2009 at 01:22 PM
The Journal has a smart story on page one today making the good point that the TALF program will result... More
NYT on the Staggering Manufacturing Economy
By Ryan Chittum Mar 20, 2009 at 09:24 AM
The Times this morning has an ominous look at the state of manufacturing worldwide. It uses a 129-year-old German plant... More
Bloomberg’s Naked-Short Story Shows Stretch Marks
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 04:23 PM
If you want to get a controversy going on Web business sites, bring up naked shorting. So what will happen... More
NPR Shows Why Newspapers Should Charge Online
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 03:24 PM
NPR on why it's canceling $100,000-a-year worth of newspaper subscriptions: NPR is strongly committed to the highest quality of journalism... More
Audit On the Air
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Audit editor Dean Starkman went on KCRW's To the Point show yesterday to talk about AIG. Also appearing: Audit favorite... More
CNBC’s Kudlow: On-Air Lawbreaker?
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Larry "Goldilocks" Kudlow just set a dollar bill on fire live on CNBC. I guess he's trying to compete for... More
Newsweek’s Irresponsible AIG Story
By Ryan Chittum Mar 19, 2009 at 09:07 AM
It's easier to slip a weak story past your editors when the subject is leading the news, it's almost universally... More
On My Way to Glenn Beck’s Doom Bunker
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 03:01 PM
I've feared that for a year now that doing the Twitter thing would be the tipping point for me—one that... More
The Times Tweaks the Sage of Omaha
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 01:59 PM
If there's a golden calf in capitalism—and by extension, its press—it's Warren Buffett. Hey, if you're going to have one,... More
Journal Keeps the Heat on Exec Pay
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM
The WSJ provides a nice guided tour of executive pay in 2008, stopping along the way to point out CEO's... More
Leonhardt vs. Sorkin: Outside the Bubble
By Ryan Chittum Mar 18, 2009 at 09:10 AM
Yesterday, the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a dog of a column arguing that AIG should get to keep its... More
WSJ’s Berman Calls Out the LBO’s
By Ryan Chittum Mar 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM
A tip of the hat to the Journal's Dennis Berman for his column today on the private-equity industry. Remember them?... 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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