‘Tis the season for simplistic media stories, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that the retail sector’s complicated variables proved too much to tackle for the nation’s business journalists.
Agricultural policy is hugely important, both in the U.S. and abroad. So why has the American press failed to help us understand what’s going on at the latest round of WTO talks?
Is the world’s most successful company committing one of the greatest inventory screw-ups ever? Or is the Xbox shortage just a shameless publicity stunt?
“House party is over,” says CNN in a headline on its Web site. But if the party’s over, the Los Angeles TImesis the annoying guest who refuses to leave. So who’s right?
Last month, BusinessWeek loved baby boomers. This week, the magazine loves another demographic group — young people. But why, exactly, that’s worthy of a cover story, we’re not sure.
The best thing about the Sunday Times is this writer they have named Ben Stein. He makes business and financial stuff really simple so even we can understand it!!
As Bill Gates recently wrote, “the next sea change is upon us.” For newspapers, that means they must do no less than reconceive their basic business model.
Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times Wall Street reporter with a Pulitzer under her belt, is one of the shrewder financial minds in the business press, so it’s always surprising to see her stumble.
