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     The camera pans across a sparkling Christmas tree, then zooms in on singer Clay Aiken, who begins to sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”: “... and ransom captive Israel … that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God…

    To The New York Times, balanced reporting on global warming is just a matter of how better to run up your cost of living: higher taxes or more regulation.

     Finding “a surge in support in business and politics for cutting…

    “Hungry? Watch out, food in America is becoming increasingly suspect,” warned Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly as he introduced his top story for the December 11 “O’Reilly Factor.”

    But in the…

     Those provincial Americans. They just aren’t living in the “real world,” driving those gas-guzzling SUVs!

     Such was the sentiment from Mike Rutherford, a British automotive columnist featured in the December 8 “Free Speech”…

     I generate enough revenue to grant 5 million individuals access to appropriate health care. I provide every child in Botswana with education to age 13. I am essential to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. I generate more than 40 percent…

     The limited water, food rations and healthy heapings of Marxist propaganda are free. The political indoctrination is priceless.

     In the December 8 New York Times, reporter Marc Lacey gave readers a look at American students…

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10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the Big Three automakers. 9. The American dream has…

     The election has come and gone, but CNN’s Lou Dobbs continued pushing Democratic Party talking points in his latest “War on the Middle Class” special December 7.

     The House Democrats Web site states, “We will make health care…

     Journalism according to Lou Dobbs: scoff at your opponent and call him “mindless.”      

     CNN’s Dobbs, a self-described “advocacy journalist” and author of “War on the Middle Class,” did that December 7 to the National…

     Does free trade kills jobs and drive Americans to the poor house? Or does it enrich Americans’ lives? A professionally-trained journalist such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs should present both sides of the debate, but he’s too busy…

     There were 7.7 billion reasons to report the story, but none of the three broadcast networks did so on their December 6 programs.

     “Fannie Mae took another step toward resolving its…

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10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the Big Three automakers.

     One of the priorities of the new Congress, and something approved of by most of the media, is to expand federal grants and loans to college students. While this may sound like a good way to increase access to higher education, it is another…

Testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

December 6, 2006

Subject: Global Warming and the Media

By Dan Gainor

The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow

Director, Business &…

     “The IRS is a lapdog for the American taxpayer, failing to audit some 80 percent of Americans who are expected to pay taxes on the honor system, says one lawmaker.”

     Imagine hearing that from a news reporter on CBS’s evening…

     “Is there a dirty bird on your dinner plate,” wondered CBS anchor Katie Couric as she hatched a brief and biased news item centered around a new Consumer Reports study on chicken.

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     “Who’s Afraid of a Higher Minimum Wage?” asked the December 4 Washington Post Business section headline. Certainly no business owners in the Washington, D.C., area, claimed the paper.

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     Trish Regan’s “Overweight in America” report investigated a possible “scientific reason” for overeating on Nov. 30, but kept the story light on balance.

     “Ever wonder why we…

     Coming just 24 days before Christmas, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien practically accused Bill Clinton of playing Ebenezer Scrooge with the global AIDS problem. Her complaint? He didn’t spend enough of the taxpayers’ money when he…