How the media gets the price of Thanksgiving dinner wrong ABC, NBC, Tech Times, and The Atlantic run with a press release November 26, 2014 By Ryan Chittum
Print: It’s alive! December 4, 2013 By Dean Starkman Newsweek‘s return to print is another body blow to the idea of free content from old media
GoldieBlox, the Beastie Boys, and fair use November 29, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The toymaker backs down amid a murky legal case
Fox News not outraged by retailers’ War on Thanksgiving November 27, 2013 By Ryan Chittum As giant stores commercialize the last holdout, Bill O’Reilly & Co. shrug
Fast Company‘s daring 23andMe cover November 27, 2013 By Ryan Chittum An ill-timed story as Anne Wojcicki’s DNA testing outfit runs afoul of the FDA
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
Shopping on Thanksgiving kills poor workers’ holidays November 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum But labor gets short shrift in too much of the coverage of encroaching commercialization
Bloomberg News and the problem of church-state separation November 26, 2013 By Dean Starkman The downside of eroding the traditional wall between business and editorial
Audit Notes: Talking turkey On the Media, redistribution, housing update November 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Audit radio on how the press mishandles an annual Thanksgiving press report
The Greg Packer of small business November 25, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Drew Greenblatt’s frequent press hits usually omit National Association of Manufacturers ties
Rick Santelli, CNBC’s Glenn Beck November 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Tea Party hero jumps on the bogus Census conspiracy story
A bogus NY Post piece sets off a frenzy November 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Serious problems with column alleging Census rigged unemployment for Obama
Three stories, three tacks on a Walmart’s employee food drive November 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum How the Plain Dealer, Business Insider, and Fox News told the news
Audit Notes: Bloomberg FX scoop, Coke and Swaziland, WSJ.com November 20, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A new wrinkle on the foreign-exchange trading scandal
John Paton, the Gorbachev of paywalls November 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Digital First Media will roll out meters across its newspaper portfolio