Pundit Masquerade Archives - Checks and Balances Project

Lobbyist Morse Doesn’t Respond to Questions about His Pro-COPN Op-Ed — But Virginian-Pilot Editor-in-Chief Worrel Does

2021-03-16

Reports from both the Obama and Trump administrations criticized how health care companies use COPN as a cudgel to beat their competitors.

Virginian-Pilot LTE Doesn’t Disclose Author is Former Sentara Top Executive

2020-12-12

For a decade, we’ve examined how industry-funded pundits, masquerading as unbiased experts, are published by influential media. Now The Virginian-Pilot joins the list.

Should Doctors Reveal Financial Conflicts When Speaking in the Media?

2019-07-18

We asked Denise Pines, president of the Medical Board of California, about three apparent conflicts Stanford’s John G. Brock-Utne, MD, failed to reveal.

Wall Street Journal’s Assertion on Ethics of an Editorial Series Is Undercut by Facts

2019-05-30

A tip to C&BP reveals a staff editorial writer’s financial ties were undisclosed when he wrote about an Oklahoma tax issue.

Fossil Fuel Operatives Using Social Media Pressured Ohio County to Spurn Wind Tax Millions

2019-02-14

A new investigation uncovers how a sophisticated social media disinformation campaign helped to convince Van Wert County to reject further wind development.

Phillip Zweig Disrupts Health Policy Forum on Root Causes of Drug Shortages

2018-12-7

“It’s about money,” Declares Physicians Against Drug Shortages’s “Pro Bono” Executive Director Philip Zweig — But Whose Money?

Physicians Against Drug Shortages Get a Pass from 16 Media Outlets in Our Survey

2018-11-16

If they had asked, they may have learned that Physicians Against Drug Shortages Executive Director Philip Zweig has been employed by and has direct financial ties to medical device manufacturing companies.

Financial Disclosure Guidelines Aren’t Offered by Media that Publish Op-Eds by Physicians Group

2018-11-9

Doctors and others affiliated with Physicians Against Drug Shortages certainly have a right to present their point of view. But are media outlets doing enough to allow readers to evaluate the veracity of op-eds, guest columnists, media pundits and quoted “experts”?

Are Financial Ties Between Pundits & Medical Industry Ignored by Media?

2018-10-30

Quotes by Physicians Against Drug Shortages spokespersons and op-ed bios by its members provide little in the way of details about the group. In a couple opinion pieces, PADS members describe themselves as executive director or co-chairs of a “pro bono patient advocacy group.”

Case Study: Nicholas Loris, a Career Spent in the Koch Universe

2018-04-17

Loris published 15 attacks on the Paris Climate Accord from April 16, 2016, through June 28, 2017, and played a major role in the Trump Administration’s decision to abandon the agreement — making the United States the only nation in the world not to be a part of that historic accord.

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