The Audit

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, Encapsulated

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2010 at 06:52 PM

Here's just about all you need to know (or quite a bit, anyway) about the Wall Street Journal editorial page,... More

The Rich Are Different, Still

The NYT follows the Journal to the wealthy default story

By Holly Yeager   Jul 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM

The New York Times caught my eye with a front-page story on how the housing crisis is hitting the upper... More

The Plain Dealer on the LeBron Betrayal

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM

Sportswriter Mike Vaccaro gets it exactly right on the amazing front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer today: Newspapers can... More

(Ex) Titans of Industry Against Free Trade Fundamentalism

Intel founder Andy Grove calls for a serious re-examination of our trade and industrial policies

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM

Former Intel chief Andy Grove has an extremely important piece in Bloomberg BusinessWeek this week on how Silicon Valley and... More

Audit Notes: Extend and Pretend, Low Paid U.S. Autoworkers, BP

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2010 at 06:41 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one story on commercial real estate (my old group there) and how... More

Business Journalism on Prozac

A look at an issue of Fortune

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2010 at 02:44 PM

Fortune is the happy-go-luckiest magazine in business these days. Which means it's way out of step with the times. Why,... More

Audit Notes: Study Hall, BP’s Skimpy Skimmers, “Resource Extraction”

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 8, 2010 at 01:06 AM

How wimpy is the financial-reform legislation? CNNMoney.com's Jennifer Liberto writes that Congress is passing the buck to regulators to do... More

Cohan’s Messy Goldman Apology

Faulty logic on too big to fail

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM

William D. Cohan has a complete jumble of a piece over at The New York Times's Opinionator site. Cohan writes... More

It’s About Idiosyncrasy, Not Ideology

Learning to live with opinions at the Post

By Holly Yeager   Jul 7, 2010 at 09:05 AM

Plenty has been written about Dave Weigel’s departure from The Washington Post. But Andrew Alexander, the Post ombudsman, made a... More

Audit Notes: Change Deferred, Bailout Blues, Reporting on BP

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2010 at 09:03 PM

Barry Ritholtz with some good thoughts on what the bailouts hath wrought: Most people still do not understand what was... More

Woot Raises a Zombie Lie From the Dead (Again)

The AP does not charge bloggers to quote its stories

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2010 at 08:23 PM

The left blogosphere has a useful concept called "zombie lies"—information that's false and been debunked but continues to pop up... More

Circling Back on the Orszag Story

By Holly Yeager   Jul 6, 2010 at 12:49 PM

When Peter Orszag said he was leaving his job as OMB chief a couple of weeks ago, the reporting about... More

ProPublica and Frontline with a Save on BP

Another giant toxic emission from the oil giant goes undernoticed until now

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 6, 2010 at 08:27 AM

That one almost slipped through the cracks. A month ago, the Galveston Daily News's T.J. Aulds broke a big story... More

Audit Notes: Maiden Lane, AIG Off Easy, Spitzer

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 2, 2010 at 05:27 PM

Bloomberg reports that Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke didn't tell Congress the whole truth when they testified about the Bear... More

Influence Game

NYT’s Podesta profile lets lobbyist define the terms

By Holly Yeager   Jul 2, 2010 at 02:37 PM

The New York Times has the very good idea to profile Tony Podesta, whose Washington lobbying group has made a... More