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This American Life had an episode a month ago that went into previous attempts of GM's to fix their problems. It has some great details on why their corporate culture is so messed up, and why they're so incapable of fixing their problems: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/n...

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It's so interesting that the most vital journalism in America is from the margins: TAL, Daily Show... I wonder what's out there that I'm missing.

I highly recommend noagendashow.com if you're interested in media deconstruction

Unfortunately, the guys on it know almost nothing about anything, but rather only follow up stories that confirm their biases.

I like Curry and Dvorak, but -- as the other replier says -- Curry is quite ignorant and Dvorak isn't far behind. Neither seem to understand the concept of fair-minded evaluation. Everything is a conspiracy by some evil faction, usually the Bilderbergers or the CFR or somesuch. H1N1 was manufactured, according to Curry, to generate profits for vaccine makers. Seriously?

I'll check it out, thanks, but I do have to say the name rubs me the wrong way. It's the kind of name you'd only use if it weren't true.

If you like TAL, you might like Radiolab from WNYC (Science focus) and Planet Money (Economics focus).

Rolling Stone is another one -- they've published some great investigative journalism:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/rollingstone.com

WOW! What a great piece! It's the systems that matter. There's all this discussion lately about "Never hire job-hoppers." No, that's completely wrong. It's all about the systems that companies have in place.

The Freemont experiment took the workers and put them in a different system and things changed even though they were the worst workers before.

Glad you liked it so much :)

I've just finished listening to it and I recommend it too. It truly helps to understand why it took so long for GM to change its way despite having most of the answers staring it in the face.

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