LA Times series on UFW receives more criticism
On Sunday, a professor criticized the series from last week about the United Farm Workers in an op-ed piece in the Times. Now, there is a radio report on www.laborradio.org that states that the series was a misrepresentation of the union. To listen to the radio report, go here.
More on Overstock/BusinessWeek tussle
The rest of the mass communications world is beginning to catch on to the issues surrounding the posting by Overstock.com President Patrick Byrne of an e-mail interview he had with BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney. Blogger expert Dan Gillmor wrote about the issue on his blog at Center for Citizen Media today and stated: “This […]
More criticism of the Cavuto show
From News Hounds, which is a blog that criticizes Fox TV. They’re now upset that Neil Cavuto just announced that Ann Coulter would be on his show tomorrow: “Whooooeeee! Neil Cavuto just gave a promo for tomorrow’s show. Ann Coulter will be on to talk about Dow 11,000. Give me a break. Cavuto twists and […]
Jim Rogers gets "dumb comment" award
Jim Rogers said something about economic sanctions not working on Cavuto on Business on Saturday. This News Hounds blogger takes him to task: Stuart Varney, Fox News business reporter, was promoting the idea of sanctions against Iran, but Rogers disagreed: “Sanctions have never worked against any country in the world.” Charles Payne of Wallstreet.com, agreed, […]
Miami Herald biz section wants bloopers
Mimi Whitfield, the Business Monday editor for the Miami Herald, is seeking buisness bloopers from her readers. In the interest of fair disclosure, she disclosed this in today’s newspaper: “But I suspect my most embarrassing job-related faux pas tops these stories. In the interest of disclosure, I’ll share. One Thanksgiving my boss invited the entire […]
More from The Sanity Check: Jim Cramer is mad now
I’ve been posting about how Overstock.com’s President Patrick Byrne has been having a public discourse with BusinessWeek e-commerce editor Timothy Mullaney by posting his answers to Mullaney’s questions on a Web site called www.thesanitycheck.com. The web site was created to battle the threat of naked short sellers on the market and to fight its belief […]
The joys of being a business reporter
Got to love this small item in the Albany Times-Union this morning that begins with the headline “Realizing the synergy,” that reads: “One of the joys of being a business reporter is translating the industry jargon into English. “A recent local software company that describes itself as ‘a leading provider of fulfillment and integration solutions […]
Falling down on the job on labor coverage
That’s the headline this morning in the Los Angeles Times’ opinion piece by Peter Dreier, a professor of politics and director of the urban and environmental policy program at Occidental College. The colum is in response to the Times’ four-part series earlier this week on the United Farm Workers that was highly critical of the […]
NYT biz section view of the world
TheDeal.com is a web site that many business journalists look at for information about mergers and acquisition news. But it also has a regular feature called Media Maneuvers, and on Friday it critiqued a New York Times’ business section profile of Michael Kopper, the former Enron executive who was the first to plead guilty in […]
BusinessWeek, a CEO and the Internet as a medium
How strange is this? Tim Mullaney, the e-business editor at BusinessWeek, sends a detailed and exhaustive list of questions to Scott Blevins, Overstock.com’s director of public relations, via e-mail on Tuesday. The questions are intended for chairman and President Patrick Byrne and other company executives. Byrne responds — I do not know when, but obviously […]
