The Audit

Audit Notes: That’s Rich, Krugman; Munger; Dancing Around Income Inequality

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 07:19 PM

Instaputz points out some real lack of self-awareness in Paul Krugman's column today attacking the rage of the rich: You... More

Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Slim Bloom Profile

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 06:29 PM

I'm a fan of the new BusinessWeek, which was already the best of the three major financial magazines—though that's not... More

The Recession May Be Over, But the Jobs Crisis Isn’t

The Times and Journal with good angles on unemployment

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 20, 2010 at 12:45 PM

There's some good reporting on the nation's unemployment crisis on A1 of the major papers today. We always like to... More

Audit Notes: Forbes Compares Obama to Lenin, Racist BS, Some Sanity

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 09:39 PM

How did that kooky, insidious, false Dinesh D'Souza piece end up on the cover of Forbes? Take a look at... More

Public Service Journalism at Its Very Best

A Seattle Times investigation uncovers profiteering and abuse in Washington’s elder-care system

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50 PM

Up here in Seattle, we've been blessed with some incredible newspaper reporting this week. The kind that makes you glad... More

The WSJ Is Good on Middle-Class Incomes

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM

I got on The Wall Street Journal the other day for, among other things, ignoring income stagnation and inequality in... More

Audit Notes: Marketplace Filleted, Window Dressing, Scotland Yard

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 07:31 PM

Jay Rosen just takes the fillet knife to public radio's "Marketplace Morning Report." The problem with this report is that... More

Dinesh D’Souza Digs Himself in Deeper

Some more criticism of Forbes’s disastrous Obama cover story

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 01:48 PM

Dinesh D'Souza has responded to my, uh, criticism of his smear piece that, shamefully, made the cover of Forbes with... More

The Elizabeth Warren End-Around

Some questions on what Obama’s conflict avoidance means

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM

Well, surprise, surprise. President Obama ducks another fight by naming consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren as "special adviser" to set up... More

Audit Notes: Murdoch’s Undoing?, FT Scoop, WSJ Nut Cracks

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 09:37 PM

Slate's Jack Shafer calls the News Corporation hacking scandal "Murdoch's Watergate" and says it "will undo the media mogul." I... More

The Mercury News’s Thinly Sourced Apple Scooplet

Some skepticism is in order

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 04:23 PM

I've criticized press coverage of Apple quite a bit. But I have to acknowledge something: The company's NSA-like secrecy makes... More

WSJ’s Welfare State Story Lacks Context

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a poorly done front-page story this morning trying to make the case that the U.S.... More

Audit Notes: Sorkin, Stone, and Schwarzman; WSJ Mag; Bloomberg on the VA

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 07:29 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin has a fun column in The New York Times this morning: An interview with Oliver Stone about... More

Freeland Tells Obama to Lay Off Big Business

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 01:39 PM

Reuters global editor at large Chrystia Freeland had an unfortunate column a few days ago in the Washington Post telling... More

Starkman on the Hamster Wheel

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 14, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman has the cover piece in the new issue of CJR looking at what he calls "The... More