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John Berthoud | April 4, 2007

     Tax Day 2007 provides all Americans a reminder of the horrible burden placed on them by federal, state and local governments. According to the Tax Foundation, Americans will have to work until April 30 this year just to earn the money they’…

Julia A. Seymour | April 4, 2007

     If it wouldn’t cause death, the Center for Science in the Public Interest would probably try to ban eating and drinking altogether.

     Despite the extreme positions of the left-wing group, the media continue to swallow its…

BMI Staff | April 4, 2007
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Dan Gainor | April 4, 2007

     Bill Gray is “America’s best-known forecaster,” said CBS’s Mark Strassman, and a “veteran forecaster,” according to ABC’s Ned Potter. The networks treat him like the expert he is, until they want to talk about global warming. Then he gets…

Dan Gainor | April 3, 2007

     It’s been awhile since we were asked where the beef is, but now Time has an answer: the atmosphere. As one of its 51 ways to “make a difference” for the planet, Time magazine writers want everyone to “skip the steak.” The magazine actually…

Dan Gainor | April 3, 2007

     Customer complaints are down about air travel, but you’d never know it watching either CBS or NBC. Both networks had April 2 reports about a new study that says “what a lot of frequent flyers already know – it has gotten…

Dan Gainor | April 2, 2007

     Al Gore says the earth “has a fever,” but Time magazine claims the planet is “thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness.”

 

     In the 44-page “…

Dan Gainor | April 2, 2007

     Leave it to “60 Minutes” to attack an entire industry for trying “to protect its profits.” That’s the summary of a more than 13-minute assault on pharmaceutical companies that ran on April Fools Day.

     But CBS wasn’t joking.…

Julia A. Seymour | April 2, 2007

     Global warming catastrophe is coming, according to “World News Sunday” on ABC, and The New York Times wants rich nations to spring for the costs.

     “Scientists say the world’s temperature will rise about two degrees in the next…

Julia A. Seymour | March 30, 2007

     Crime victims can’t catch a break. “American Morning” anchor Soledad O’Brien accused TJX Cos., the parent of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, of dishonesty in the March 30 broadcast after the company had suffered a massive data…

Amy Menefee | March 29, 2007

     The TV made them do it.

     It made them “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

     CBS’s Katie Couric used the cereal slogan as she introduced a March 28 “Evening News” report. The nanny-staters were at it again, this time warning…

Julia A. Seymour | March 28, 2007

     Media coverage of housing is booming again. This time, it’s the Shocked and Victimized Homebuyers versus the Big Bad Loan Companies.

 

     As the subprime lending “crisis” has gone…

Dan Gainor | March 28, 2007

     “Freedom of Choice” was a song by the punk band Devo released in 1980. Today’s use of the term applied to union voting goes back to those same ’80s roots – back to 1984.

     George Orwell’s “1984.”

     Just like Orwell,…

BMI Staff | March 28, 2007
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Dan Gainor | March 27, 2007

     Amidst media coverage of Big Tobacco, one reporter has shown another side of the story – little tobacco?

     As the March 27 Wall Street Journal reported, those who want to quit smoking might try tobacco. Smokeless tobacco.…

Julia A. Seymour | March 26, 2007

     “World News with Charles Gibson” supplied a sad, syrupy story for viewers on March 24 as reporter Bob Jamieson warned of “A truly New England business that may one day disappear.”

     “But this year, the syrup season is ending for…

Julia A. Seymour | March 23, 2007

     In traditional “Daily Show” style, host Jon Stewart made a mockery of Al Gore’s extreme message to Congress that “the planet has a fever” during his March 22 program.

     “I see. So the planet needs Motrin?” responded Stewart.…

Julia A. Seymour | March 22, 2007

     Just one day after Al Gore testified to Congress about global warming, The New York Times printed a 2,247-word profile on a family striving to have no environmental impact for one year in order to write a book about it.

     “…

Julia A. Seymour | March 21, 2007

     People pay a pretty penny for gasoline in the Golden State, so when gas prices are on the rise the media frequently point to California as the highest cost per gallon.

     “Let me show you what is the most expensive gasoline…

Marlo Lewis Jr. | March 21, 2007

     Now that Al Gore has won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” he headed to Capitol Hill to perform before an even more important crowd: lawmakers who could pass legislation that would make energy unaffordable for many Americans.