Talk:Adam Davidson (journalist)

Conflicts of Interest
Relevant quote from the Observer article: "There is no empirical evidence that Davidson...has explicitly interacted with his sponsors in a way that would undoubtedly compromise his show’s integrity. Levine and Ames have no proof of Davidson’s pay for his speaking gigs (though there’s been no denial that he was paid)." All of the following articles (Fair, Observer, and the SHAME interview) seem to point back to a single SHAME article, which doesn't really contain any hard proof besides guilt-by-association. --Hausrath (talk) 19:41, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

This should probably go in: * http://observer.com/2012/08/adam-davidson-planet-money-media-ethics-08092012/ * http://shameproject.com/profile/adam-davidson/ Fightnot (talk) 01:21, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * More on Adam Davidson's conflicts of interest
 * * http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/08/17/at-npr-you-can-take-money-from-banks-just-dont-protest-them/
 * * http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/08/17/fair-tv-false-balance-npr-ethics-and-the-press-crush-on-paul-ryan/
 * * http://shameproject.com/shame-blog/shame-founders-mark-ames-yasha-levine-talk-rts-kristine-frazao-journalistic-corruption-nprs-adam-davidson/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fightnot (talk • contribs) 06:56, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

FAIR are quoting SHAME, who are the sole source for this. They are also wrong. As far as I can tell, the show has never had only one sponsor, and there's no evidence of conflict of interest. Guy (Help!) 20:09, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest
Re-Added the bit on Davidson's conflict of interest, with a link to the New York Observer rather than S.H.A.M.E. itself. 07:28, 3 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.180.137 (talk)

I'm the subject. That second graph is entirely untrue and unverifiable.
The second graph in my bio is entirely inaccurate, unverifiable, and derogatory.

- Planet Money is not solely supported by Ally Bank. It isn't supported by Ally Bank at all, now. And I have never had anything to do with arranging sponsorship. - I have never earned any speaking fees of any kind or any other fees of any kind from any of these banks or from any other banks. - The "source" for all of these is one site, SHAME, which provides no evidence for any of the allegations. - FAIR and the NY Observer base their reports on SHAME and provide no additional sourcing or verifiability. - SHAME is, on its face, not reliable. It also doesn't meet any of the criteria of reliability, as per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing/4 - Or of verifiability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INTREF1

That graph has been removed several times and is replaced from time to time by unregistered users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidsonadam (talk • contribs) 13:00, 29 March 2015 (UTC) Davidsonadam (talk) 13:02, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I have removed the text for being a violation of Wikipedia's biographies on living people policy. Specifically, I find the sources to be unreliable as they seem to reference one another. Additionally, I am having a hard time locating any reliable sources that back up the removed information. All of the Google hits or article seem to reference the S.H.A.M.E article. Tiptoety  talk 15:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)