ProPublica and NPR on Freddie Mac’s Conflicts
By Ryan Chittum Why haven't Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae been much more aggressive about refinancing the mortgages they hold? That's a $50 billion question. ProPublica and NPR have a $3.4 billion possible answer. Jesse Eisinger and Chris Arnold ...
Updating the Privacy Protection Act for the Digital Era
Law protecting journalists from searches didn’t anticipate cloud computing
Friday Night Bytes
In Texas, high school football is the killer app
Audit Notes: Fukayama on the Crisis, WSJ on Exec Pay, Nonprofit News
By Ryan Chittum The Browser has a great interview with Francis Fukayama on his five favorite financial-crisis books. Here he is on whether companies like Goldman Sachs were really capable of committing systematic fraud: It depends what you mea...
Evangelicals, Mormons, and Mitt Romney
By Ryan Chittum The New York Times runs an op-ed headlined "Why Evangelicals Don't Like Mormons," which takes on an important issue but glosses over the critical role fundamentalism plays in the phenomenon. David S. Reynolds is writing about t...
The Presidential Energy Narrative
Campaign coverage takes on a green hue
RIP: Jonathan “Jack” Idema, Media Con Man
By Mike Hoyt In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxicabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan off...
For Obama’s Vegas Visit, Competing Press Angles
As Sun explores natural gas agenda, Review-Journal delves into the "briar patch"
Tin Soldier
An American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glow
