The great Herbalife astroturf war March 12, 2014 By Ryan Chittum The New York Times probes Bill Ackman’s campaign against the multilevel marketer
Roger Goodell’s salary stunner February 18, 2014 By Ryan Chittum Great sports reporting puts $44 million payday for the NFL commissioner in context
GoldieBlox picks an unfair fight with the Beastie Boys November 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A dismal press performance on a clear case of aggressive copyright infringement
Astroturfing The New York Times and Wall Street Journal November 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A New Jersey businessman hits the media circuit again, with lobbying connections undisclosed
Sympathy for the Walmart flack July 24, 2013 By Ryan Chittum How the PR-afflicted colossus pushes its "jobs" narrative on a credulous press
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure July 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Audit Notes: WSJ and labor, Tumblr-speak, not the London whale April 15, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Getting it right on a nursing-home worker shortage
The Times airbrushes Tiger Fund’s flop August 1, 2012 By Ryan Chittum A needlessly flattering hedge fund profile omits the basics
Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision July 5, 2012 By Trudy Lieberman The press rides a PR tsunami on Obamacare
The WSJ bakes a bogus trend June 25, 2012 By Ryan Chittum And ABC copies its grocery-store wedding cake story
Another A1 Times-Picayune press release June 20, 2012 By Ryan Chittum This time the publisher takes to the front page, eliding the gutting of his newsroom
Microsoft’s live-action press release June 19, 2012 By Ryan Chittum Journalists hype the software giant’s new tablet
Audit Notes: Google’s stonewalling, Moody’s spin clinic, USDA mortgages May 30, 2012 By Ryan Chittum An NYT story on how the company tried to stymie investigators of its Street View program
Delaying the Dodd-Frank Rules June 7, 2011 By Ryan Chittum An NYT story shows the WSJ parroting bogus Wall Street spin
Bloomberg’s Thin "Made in the USA" Story May 31, 2011 By Ryan Chittum Marketers run amok on a luxury manufacturing renaissance
GE Flubs a Pushback Against The New York Times March 31, 2011 By Ryan Chittum The company can’t—or won’t—get its story straight on taxes
The Times‘s Fluffy Coverage of the State of the Union January 26, 2011 By Ryan Chittum A poor show that amplifies Obama’s public-relations spiel