Tag Archives: Bloomberg News

Just Call Him Mike Hucksterbee

Posted on March 31, 2015 by

Former Arkansas governor and current GOP presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee never met a quack product he wasn’t willing to sell (and we’re not even counting his old Fox News panderama). Start with his shilling for a dubious diabetes treatment.     … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

NYT Hires Bloomberg Pariah Michael Forsythe. Quid Pro Quo, Yes?

Posted on January 14, 2014 by

So Bloomberg News reporter Michael Forsythe, who leaked a big story last fall to the New York Times about Bloomberg News spiking his report about corruption among China’s political leaders, gets fired by Bloomberg News and then hired by the Times. Pay … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Did NYT Public Editor Just Endorse Pay-for-Play?

Posted on December 8, 2013 by

In her New York Times column today, Public Editor Margaret Sullivan takes on The Thorny Challenge of Covering China. Thorny in two ways for the Times: First because the Chinese government is aggressively responding to news organizations that produce coverage critical … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Bull(bleep) In Journalism’s China Shop

Posted on November 10, 2013 by

It’s lately become clear that reporting on China triggers the law of diminishing returns. From Saturday’s New York Times front page: Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China BEIJING — The decision came in an early … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Why Did The GOP Lie When The Truth Was Apparently Worse?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

The other day the hardworking staff noted that the Republican National Committee had, according to Bloomberg News, “altered the audio of U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) oral arguments in an attack on President Barack Obama’s health-care law.” In a web ad circulated this week, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

LinsADity!

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin is the new Lindorser for Volvo, as Bloomberg New reports: Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks signed a two-year contract to promote Volvo Cars in China and the U.S. Lin, a 23-year-old Harvard University graduate, sparked the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Attack Of The Googletron

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

There’s bad news and worse news about Internet privacy these days. The bad news (via the Boston Globe): As the online search giant Google Inc. prepares to change the way it uses information about Internet users, regulators and consumer watchdogs worry … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Something Doesn’t Ad Up About Facebook

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Facebook is all the rage these days, what with founder Mark Zuckerberg being Time’s Person of the Year 2010 and the site itself having “changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale.” Sure. Even better, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments