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BMI Staff | March 21, 2007
Gas Price Season: California, Here We Come Its springtime again, when the…
Julia A. Seymour | March 21, 2007

     You won’t find a debate over global warming in the pages of Glamour magazine, but you will find “the woman’s guide to saving the planet” in its latest issue.

     Glamour’s April issue has an 11-page Earth Day section with more…

Dan Gainor | March 20, 2007

     Call it “Dancing with the Stars”: Global Warming Edition. Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards showed his best dance moves trying to avoid questions about how energy efficient his 28,000-square-foot mansion really…

Amy Menefee | March 19, 2007

     On March 16, CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim announced the discovery of “more evidence” of the “failure of the Bush administration’s economic and trade policies,” costing American workers jobs.

     “So simply put, this is yet another example…

Julia A. Seymour | March 19, 2007

     The student loan business might be taking advantage of college students, according to ABC “World News,” but viewers will just have to trust the network about the particulars.

 

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Amy Menefee | March 16, 2007

     As CNBC’s Melissa Francis explained, Democrats want to raise your taxes – but they don’t want to tell you about it.

    

     “President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010, and if the Democrats get their way, America’s taxes…

Julia A. Seymour | March 16, 2007

     Mike Strizki doesn’t get an electric bill, or a gas bill. He’s off the power grid, living in the first U.S. solar-hydrogen house.

     “It sounds promising, even utopian: homemade, storable energy that doesn’t contribute to global…

Dan Gainor | March 16, 2007

     Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez “does like this country” and is “passionate,” “dignified,” “intelligent” and loves coffee.

     That’s the conclusion of an ABC exclusive interview with a man who has threatened to shut off oil to…

Julia A. Seymour | March 15, 2007

     How many networks does it take to change a lightbulb?

     Two. “CBS Evening News” and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” both excluded anti-regulatory opinions from segments about a coalition that wants to ban incandescent…

Julia A. Seymour | March 14, 2007

     Evening newscasts last night praised a new drug, Tykerb, calling it a possible “lifesaver” for women fighting breast cancer, but none of the reports ever mentioned the company that developed the effective new treatment.

     “A new…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

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Introduction It didn't take long for the new Congress to try to increase government regulation of health care through mandated prescription prices. Less than one month after taking power, House…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

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 Liberal Democrats have taken charge in Congress, and one of the top targets for their anti-business rage has long been the pharmaceutical industry. In their “100 hours” plans, Democrats tried to institute price controls…

Julia A. Seymour | March 14, 2007

     CBS and ABC heaped blame on lenders, rather than borrowers after a stock market slide yesterday was spurred by new home foreclosure numbers. Both networks lamented the problems of borrowers rather than blame them for taking out high-risk…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

     Let there be no doubt where ABC’s Bill Blakemore stands on global warming. 

      “‘We have been spun by Exxon and Peabody Coal,’ Blakemore said, comparing the situation to the long-running effort by tobacco companies to create…

BMI Staff | March 14, 2007
Special Report: Prescription for Bias Medical breakthroughs dont grow on…
Rachel Waters | March 13, 2007

     In debt? Don’t worry, you won’t be blamed by CNN’s “In the Money” team.

 

     On March 10, the CNN show featured an interview with James Scurlock, maker of the new documentary “Maxed…

Julia A. Seymour | March 13, 2007

     A sure sign of spring is the launch of media hysteria about the increasing cost of gasoline.

     “Gas prices are not just creeping up again, they’re shooting up and we’re still a long way from summer,” said anchor Charles Gibson…

Julia A. Seymour | March 12, 2007

     You can’t win for losing – well, not if you’re Exxon.

     The San Jose Mercury News reported on March 11 that Steve Bing has revoked donations to Stanford University because of a partnership between ExxonMobil and Stanford, but…

Julia A. Seymour | March 12, 2007

     ABC “World News Sunday” bashed Halliburton on March 11, this time for deciding to move its corporate headquarters to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The report accused the company on many levels but allowed just one short response to the…

Julia A. Seymour | March 9, 2007

     Seeking “cool solutions” to global warming, CBS “Evening News” wrapped up its three-part series with a look at “an ecological fantasy island” on March 8

     It was more of a liberal fantasy.

     The Mark Phillips report…