Investor's Business Daily

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Investor's Business Daily''}} [[File:IBD Logo.png|thumb|165px|The logo.]] {{media}}
'''''Investor's Business Daily'' (IBD)''' is an [[American]] "newspaper" (with associated website) that (obviously) covers mostly financial, [[business]], and investment news. Its op-eds are chock-full of [[Ben Steinery]] along with numerous [[denialist]] hit pieces, [[astroturf]], and mouthing off by bottom-of-the-barrel [[wingnut]]s (e.g., [[Brent Bozell]]) in a way that makes the op-ed pages of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' look like the ''Daily Worker''. Since 2021, IBD has been owned by [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s News Corp.<ref>[https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210505005615/en/News-Corp-Completes-Acquisition-of-Investor%E2%80%99s-Business-Daily News Corp Completes Acquisition of Investor’s Business Daily] (May 05, 2021 09:00 AM) ''Business Wire''.</ref>

Their editorial cartoons can get very nutty,<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/blog/201003130002 Obama Akbar!], [[Media Matters]] (Heh, [[fiscal cliff]].)</ref> and their [[anti-environmentalism]] can reach astounding heights.<ref group=note>For example, did you know [http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/535996/201006011854/Environmentalists-Also-To-Blame-For-Exxon-Valdez-And-Gulf-Spills.aspx environmentalists are to blame for the Exxon-Valdez and Gulf spills?]</ref> At times, they venture into full-on, balls-out [[conspiracy theory]] territory when it comes to [[global warming]], including accusing [[NASA]] and [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]] of conspiring to manipulate data<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/research/201001270042 Right-wing media forward conspiracy theory that NASA, NOAA manipulate climate data], Media Matters</ref> and fabricated the now popular denialist talking point that [[James Hansen]] is a [[shill gambit|shill]] for [[George Soros]].<ref>[https://archive.is/5aATR Investors Business Daily has as much as 100 lies on every page], archived from the original by Deltoid</ref> (Oh, can't forget [[Climategate]], of course, they were all over that.) This is even less surprising when you notice that they let [[lobbyist]]s and [[public relations|PR]] reps for denialist [[think tank]]s like the [[Heartland Institute]] and the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] and [[experts for hire]] like [[Michael Fumento]] pen their [[bullshit]] all over IBD's pages. There's the other usual anti-environmental nonsense as well, including [[DDT]] denial and [[tobacco|second-hand smoke]] denial.

IBD's most infamous op-ed was one that, in trying to make an argument against [[Obamacare]], claimed [[Stephen Hawking]] would have been [[Euthanasia|euthanized]] by the [[NHS]] if he lived in [[Britain]]. Hawking then replied that he credits the NHS with saving his life. In true IBD fashion, they then issued a "correction" noting that the "implication" in the column that Hawking was not a citizen of the [[UK]] had been "fixed."<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/08/12/hawking-serves-crow-to-investo/ Hawking serves crow to Investor's Business Daily], [[Ed Brayton]]</ref>  They still post less than-accurate-information on Obamacare to this day. 

On personal finance matters, IBD promotes investing using CAN SLIM, a [[pseudoscientific]] [[technical analysis]] of stocks developed by IBD founder William J. O'Neil. One of the claims frequently found in IBD is that a price graph in a "cup and handle" shape indicates an ideal time to buy a stock.

==External links==
*[http://www.investors.com/ IBD]
*[[ScienceBlogs|Deltoid]]: [https://archive.is/zJjkm Lehrer and Lott recycle, Lehrer goes solo], [https://archive.is/7fUVf Don't trust anything you read in IBD], [https://archive.is/hZf6x The Exxon-funded swiftboating of James Hansen], [https://archive.is/uNVjd To Rasool]
*[http://www.desmogblog.com/scientist-busts-biz-sheet-for-misrepresenting-his-work Scientist busts biz sheet for misrepresenting his work], DeSmog Blog
*[http://newscorpwatch.org/research/201001210005 IBD falsely claimed that "the earth hasn't been warming at all, at least not in the last decade"], Newscorp Watch
*[https://twitter.com/keithjs/status/358742813082525696 A man got shot to death and the killer is free!] [[sarcasm|''Yaaay''!]]

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