The media: financial journalism, Fox News, right-wing media, media consolidation.
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A recent study conducted by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education found that students could not differentiate between “fake” news, defined as sponsored content on web sites, from real news prepared by attributable journalistic sources and legitimate news outlets. Based on their study of over 7,800 middle school, high school and college undergraduate…
This article was originally posted on Oct. 22, 2016 and updated on July 27, 2026. Unfortunately, not much has changed in a decade; reporters are still wimps. In an earlier post on this site (When Did Reporters Become Wimps), I noted that many journalists, who used to be called enterprise or investigative reporters, have become…
The current presidential campaign media coverage represents another challenge in national electoral politics and broadcast journalism. Not since the days of Yellow Journalism in the late 1800s, when sensationalism dominated over factual reporting, has the press been so divided and partisan. But the added twist today is that reporters have become accustomed to tolerating lies…
In this election season, it’s pretty clear that the quality of political reporting has been called into question by both the electorate and even the president of the United States. Yet since economics, especially income disparities between classes and lack of wage growth and retirement security have also become central issues among Democrats, it is…
For better or worse, political talk radio and TV are how most Americans are getting their news about the 2016 presidential candidates and the state of the nation. Most people who know the difference between professional journalism, or even appreciate traditional journalism, lament the rise of political commentators who push an agenda in search of…
We use our eyes to see the world, but language is what helps shape our perceptions of how we view the world. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in politics. And if you want to twist the way people think about their most immediate surroundings and how they are governed, the Republicans have adopted some tricks that…
When it comes to publicly discussing journalism’s ability to be objective, all shades of the political spectrum have their opinions. However, financial journalism has traditionally been considered more objective, mainly because it relies on financial data, market statistics, audited company balance sheets and information contained in legal vetted annual reports and press releases. But that…
Like the Hatfields and the McCoys, the relationship between the factual progressive, non-profit journalism accountability group Media Matters and FOX News is an ongoing feud over what has made serious journalism mistakes in presenting the news to the American public. In their weekly radio show on Sirius Radio, and their web site, Media Matters often…
In plain-English, Yellen says the banking system is broken; Commentators and politicians suspiciously silent on her comments; Average Americans agree with Yellen. Welcome to 2015 America Fed watchers who routinely wax on for hundreds of thousands of words about possible…
Web Companies Prey on Freelance Contributors In response to a recent ad for a freelancer, I responded to an ad from a New York company. In return, I received this job solicitation which indicates the sad state of freelance journalism combined with the cheap tricks some web advertisers use to entice readers. Here is…
The Daily Show once again provides a great lesson for financial journalists The Daily Show’s success in merging comedy with serious political and business coverage, while reaching a previously unserved audience of younger people who never followed politics, is a great example for financial journalists who want to think outside the box about their profession.
Last night’s rout of the Democratic political achievements in the up-righting the economy, advancing health care coverage to more Americans than ever before, cutting the budget deficit and reducing employment, among others, have not gained traction in the electorate due to a ignoring an important persuasive tool: propaganda. Propaganda is difficult to define. “Most students…
Financial journalism on TV has always been a difficult job. First, the mass audience is largely uneducated about the topic. Second, investing is a long-term process, but TV needed an exciting, immediate return for its advertisers. Third, the topic needed to be re-invented to make it exciting. Finally, it could not be purely educational, so…
KPLU radio (88.5 FM), the NPR affiliate in Seattle, Washington will air an interview with me on my book at 6:30 am and 8:30 am on Monday, June 10. The interviewer is Ashley Gross, KPLU’s business reporter. The book is “How 401(k) Fees Destroy Wealth and What Investors Can Do To Protect Themselves.”
Maybe it’s an indication of the End Days, or at least the start of a new bull market, but the news today had a number of events which all shared the common themes of greed and rampant ethical abuses among people in the financial services industry. Here are the specifics:…
. The Progressive Investor www.theprogressiveinvestor.org is published and written by Chuck Epstein (epstein.chuck@gmail.com), who has held senior-level marketing communications positions at the New York Futures Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Russell Investments, Principal Financial, Zacks Investment Research, and Lind-Waldock. While at the futures exchanges, he developed marketing-communications materials to introduce the S&P 500 Index, CRB Index,…
