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Just Call Him Mike Hucksterbee
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
NYT Hires Bloomberg Pariah Michael Forsythe. Quid Pro Quo, Yes?
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
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Tagged Beijing, Bloomberg News, China, Margaret Sullivan, Michael Forsythe, New York Times, Public Editor, Shanghai
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Did NYT Public Editor Just Endorse Pay-for-Play?
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
Bull(bleep) In Journalism’s China Shop
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
Why Did The GOP Lie When The Truth Was Apparently Worse?
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
LinsADity!
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
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Tagged Bloomberg News, flash-Lin-the-pan, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, NBA, New York Knicks, New York Times, Volvo
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Attack Of The Googletron
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
Something Doesn’t Ad Up About Facebook
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
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Tagged Bloomberg News, Mark Zuckerberg, Person of the Year, Steven Johnson, Time, Twitter, Wall Street Journal
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