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Politico has some great reporting on the Democrats’ backroom maneuvering to pass the Disclose Act, which would increase disclosure requirements on special interest spending on campaign ads—and the way the whole thing fell apart in dramatic fashion. The proposal is an attempt to counteract the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and the Politico story smartly shows how Democratic…
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Audit D.C. Notes: A Deal Unravels, Vuvuzela Valentine, Senate Sport
Journalism is a profession built on storytelling, so it’s no surprise that its history is filled with some remarkable tales. Think Woodward and Bernstein bringing down a president. Or Walter Cronkite’s 1968 CBS News special about Vietnam that caused President Lyndon Johnson to exclaim, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” Think of Edward R.
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And That’s Not the Way It Is
After his slicing, dicing, and grilling by Congress, BP’s CEO Tony Hayward has been relieved of some of his duties, with responsibilities for managing the company’s PR response shifting to chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg .
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I Want To Live Like Common People: BP and the Great PR Divide
So since we can’t see the movies in advance and our particular tastes in cinema won’t really tell you whether or not it’s a good value, what about a system of aggregating reviews where we sift through what others have written — pro and …
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How Should Consumerist Handle Movie Reviews? – The Consumerist
The Economist has a pathetic leader this week criticizing Obama for hammering BP and raising the ridiculous idea that his corporate-friendly administration is anti-business. It actually (really!) calls the president “Vladimir Obama” and writes: The collapse in BP’s share price suggests that he has convinced the markets that he is an American version of Vladimir Putin, willing to harry…
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The Economist Off the Deep End on BP and "Vladimir Obama"
I’m not usually a big fan of ambush journalism. But I’m making an exception for Alex Lawson of Social Security Works—who’s been standing outside the weekly closed-door meetings of the president’s debt commission, asking members questions when he can—and Firedoglake, which has been running a live stream of his video
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Shining Light on the Debt Commission
Will daddy wars erupt in this decade the way the mommy wars did in the last one? Eight years ago, when I wrote a book examining why accomplished women have such a hard time integrating career and children, the data found that approximately 40 percent of professional women are childless at age 40.
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How to Prevent Daddy Wars in the Workplace
On June 6, Wired.com published a piece reporting that a U.S. soldier named Bradley Manning, who purportedly claimed to be passing confidential information—including a video showing U.S. helicopter pilots firing on two Reuters reporters—to WikiLeaks, online secret-sharing site, had been arrested
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WikiLeaks Alleges Collusion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Fauber deserves kudos for his dogged reporting on some unsavory practices in the medical profession. It was especially nice to see his latest piece—so refreshing and so different from the doctor stories the press has been feeding us lately. You know, the ones about physicians whining and wailing that Congress hasn’t yet…
Based on a survey with over 3600 graduate and undergraduate students worldwide, IBM’s recently released Global Student Study 2010 compares side by side the value system, mindset, and management style of future leaders with those of current generation CEOs. The findings supplement insights from their 2010 CEO Study, which we discussed in our last blog post . If you are leading a function or a business unit, you should read carefully what these students have to say.
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Leadership In the Age of Scarcity
In its finale, Supernatural delivered not only one of the finest hours of network television of 2010, but it also supplied one of the most intellectually and satisfying closures any sci-fi or horror series ever broadcast.
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It’s the Honda CR-Z. Cars.com senior editor Joe Wiesenfelder reviews the new hybrid and explains why it doesn’t do sporty or hybrid particularly well, but it is a comfortable ride nonetheless. He also dissects its two transmissions — a …
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Cars.com Reviews the 2011 Honda CR-Z – KickingTires
The Washington Post calls the charges against Lee Farkas “to date the biggest criminal case related to the crisis that nearly brought down the financial system.” This one’s a win for the Special Inspector General of the TARP Neil Barofsky: Prosecutors said the scheme was discovered after Neil Barofsky, Treasury’s special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program,…
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Audit Notes: Mortgage Charges, BP Testimony, FT.com Ad Revenue
It doesn’t inspire confidence in the Washington Post that it fails to mention the blockbuster SEC fraud charges against Goldman Sachs in a story about how the Obama administration has failed to file criminal charges against Wall Street. Nearly 1 1/2 years into Obama’s tenure, despite several cases against mortgage companies whose lending practices contributed to the crisis, the…
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WaPo Flags Obama Inaction on Wall Street Crime
Depending on whether or not you’re a calendar purist, this coming weekend is either the first weekend of summer movies or merely the weekend right before the summer truly begins; either way, there are two big releases coming up in the …
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Toy Story 3 Reviews – Jonah Hex Reviews – Guessing Game | Geekosystem
The Washington Post picks a good moment to profile Scott Rasmussen, the pollster who’s hitting the big-time, even if the old-school polling crowd doesn’t like it. As cash-strapped newspapers and television networks struggle to meet the growing demand for polls, Rasmussen, 54, is supplying reams of cheap, automated surveys that will measure — and maybe move — opinion, especially…
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Audit D.C. Notes: Ouija Boards, Older 99ers, Making Lemonade
Trip Adler, CEO, Scribd; Ryan Charles, Mobile Product Leader, Zagat Survey; Mark Coker, CEO, Smashwords; Brad Inman, CEO, Vook; Josh Koppel, Founder, ScrollMotion; Kevin Kelleher, Blogger, The Big Money Adler: Scribd: social publishing and reading. Over 50 million monthly users.
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Untethered: Meet the apps
Atrios says: I really can’t believe how fast the “you can’t hurt BP! If you do, you’re just hurting poor little old ladies!!!” idea was spread. Like the idea that boycotting its gas stations won’t really hurt BP, the “oil spill is hurting pensioners” meme is awfully helpful PR for BP. The British press, at least the…
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Beleaguered Pensioners
(Editor’s note: This post forms part of the month-long HBR Debate, “Finance: The Way Forward.” It is the fourth post on this week’s topic: “Do we really need banks — and what might take their place?”) The last few years have shown the fragility of a model that is more strongly mediated by capital markets. Banks, as institutions that match those with excess savings and those with demand for capital, and as intermediaries matching liquidity needs and risk profiles, will surely always have a role to play
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Banks Are Here to Stay (But They’ll Look Different)
Despite repeated promises to improve transparency, BP, the United States government, and their contractors are still inhibiting the media’s ability to cover the largest oil spill in the country’s history, which began April 20 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The first reports of journalists being denied access to beaches and flights over the offshore…
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BP, Government Still Thwarting Press Access