Audit Notes: Marketers’ Memories, Labor’s Last Legs, Fortune in Afghanistan
By Ryan Chittum Over at Wired, Jonah Lehrer looks at how marketers invade our heads: A new study, published in The Journal of Consumer Research, helps explain both the success of this marketing strategy and my flawed nostalgia for Coke. It tur...
The Great Comment Challenge
Knight-Mozilla’s initiative to reinvent online news discussions
How to Corner the Oil Market
CFTC suit says traders manipulated crude prices in 2008; revisiting a Journal piece
Memoirs of an Accidental Sportswriter
Robert Lipsyte’s new memoir recounts fifty years on the sports pages
A Soros Problem at NPR
The broadcaster ducks again when it should be swinging
Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65
By Joel Meares CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular Squawk Box program and co-anchor of Squawk on the Street with Erin Burnett, who recently left CNBC for CN...
Squawk on the Street’s Haines Dies at 65
By Joel Meares CNBC’s Mark Haines died unexpectedly Tuesday night at age 65. Haines was the founding anchor of the network’s popular Squawk Box program and co-anchor of Squawk on the Street with Erin Burnett, who recently left CNBC for CN...
The Not-So-Great Migration
From the black press to the mainstream—and back again
Audit Notes: Insider Trading on the Hill, Taibbi, Deficit vs. Jobs Coverage
By Ryan Chittum Dan Froomkin of The Huffington Post reports on some very interesting research finding that the investment portfolios of members of Congress substantially outperform the stock market. I'd expect their portfolios to do a bit bett...
Does Roger Ailes Think Sarah Palin Is an Idiot?
By Joel Meares A bit of Palin overload today at CJR, but the former governor of Alaska has popped up in another mini media scandal following the publication of Monday’s New York cover story about Roger Ailes, the GOP field, and their interc...
WaPo Pulls Up Short On Trade and Tariffs
By Ryan Chittum The Washington Post looks at what happens when the U.S. actually fights low-priced Chinese imports with tariffs: The factories move to Vietnam. It's an interesting angle for a story, but as with the paper's story last week on m...
