By Barry Ritholtz, for Bloomberg Views, demonstrates how to adopt a critical attitude when reading the business news:

How to Spot the Garbage in News

“…I can randomly pick up any newspaper article or analyst report, and find holes and flaws merely by asking questions the author left unanswered. Active reading often leads to the conclusion that the vast majority of news is at best incomplete and uninformative, while a majority of research reports are full of biases and logical errors.

That is a pretty bold statement, and to demonstrate this, I am going to take a random article and dissect it using logical skepticism…”