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
Big Mac numbers too good to check—or to correct August 2, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Fixes and non-fixes following a Huffington Post story
The NYT’s $150 million-a-year paywall August 1, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Growth slows sharply, but digital-subscriber revenue is propping up the paper
Audit Notes: The unbanked, Paolo Pellegrini, a debt collector pauses August 1, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The NYT on the minor mishaps keep people out of the banking system
Advance’s forced march backwards July 31, 2013 By Dean Starkman The Plain Dealer imposes draconian cuts in the name of an outdated strategy for newspapers
A Big Mac miss by The Huffington Post July 31, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Poor reporting on a "study" by a Kansas undergrad
John Stossel’s poor logic on minimum wages and jobs July 30, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Fox host fails to explain away Australia’s high wages and low unemployment
Audit Notes: Robot truckers, Larry Summers, Detroit not America’s future July 29, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Computers take on a last haven of blue-collar jobs
Audit Notes: Meredith Whitney’s press, Steve Forbes, revolving door July 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum An aversion to the press, proclaimed amidst a press tour
Minimum sense on the minimum wage July 26, 2013 By Ryan Chittum A WSJ op-ed from a front group for low-wage employers gets it very wrong
Goldman swings, misses, at NYT’s commodities exposé July 25, 2013 By Dean Starkman Bank and newspaper, at odds again
Sympathy for the Walmart flack July 24, 2013 By Ryan Chittum How the PR-afflicted colossus pushes its "jobs" narrative on a credulous press
The revolving door spins for Robert Khuzami July 23, 2013 By Ryan Chittum Former SEC enforcement chief lands a $5 million a year gig
Audit Notes: Noonan and Morris on the IRS, free Internet, Guardian gains July 22, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The Woodward and Bernstein of the bogus Tea Party tax scandal
NYT exposé machine hums along (UPDATED) July 22, 2013 By Dean Starkman Kocieniewski reveals Goldman’s commodity manipulations; one of a series
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure July 19, 2013 By Ryan Chittum The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
