Once the middle class started investing in stocks, business news narrowed its focus to investor concerns, going back to its early 20th century roots as a servant of the markets.
An unsettling trend of limiting press at major events shows that the Obama White House has regressed on transparency, limiting news access more severely than Bush.
It’s either death threats and assassinations or state subsidies with lots of strings attached; all in all, a tough time for investigative reporting in Russia. But some are gutting it out.
Despite progress on transparency since President Obama took office, there have been plenty of missed opportunities in areas such as state secrets, FOIA requests, White House visitor records, and more.
“The government, the financial industry and the American consumer — if they had only paid attention — would have gotten ample warning about this crisis from us, years in advance, when there was still time to evacuate and seek shelter from this storm.” Diana Henriques,New York Times business reporter, speech at The George Washington University, November […]