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     Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson devoted an October 6 Business section article to how “Conspiracy Theories Abound as Oil Prices Fluctuate.” Yet while Mufson gave credit to CNN’s Miles O’Brien for dismissing…

     The Dow Jones average closed at a record high for the third consecutive trading day and a retails sales report showed strong consumer activity in the month of September. But none of the three broadcast evening news…

     The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it’s safe to eat spinach again, following a recent E. coli scare. But a story in the Money section for the October 5 “USA Today” sought to trouble readers afresh with…

     An official within an international oil cartel recently suggested calling an “emergency meeting” to arrange for oil production cuts in an attempt to drive up the price of oil. Although the move follows a smaller…

     One month away from the election, the media are right in line with the Democratic talking point of “stagnant wages.”

     “We are in a period of stagnant wages for workers in this country,” said CNN’s Lou Dobbs on a September 15…

     Off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, two million old tires are pounding into reefs, destroying the ecosystem and littering the shoreline. It’s an environmentalist catastrophe.

     That’s right – environmentalist. This…

     No matter how the economy is doing, the word 'recession' never seems too far away. CBS began the year with talk of a recession and similar discussion has cropped on up ABC and CNN throughout 2006 and even going back to…

     October 3 saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average close at a record high of 11,727.34. The “CBS Evening News” saw economic trouble on the horizon.

     While CBS’s Anthony Mason offered qualified praise for the market’s recent rally,…

     Five days after CNN’s Miles O’Brien painted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) as a quixotic crusader against an overwhelming consensus on climate change, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee got a chance to take on…

     Praise the Lord and pass the tax bill.

     The October 1 edition of ABC’s “World News Sunday” preached that the 51 houses of worship in Stafford, Texas, are a holy terror to the city’s finances, citing the mayor’s complaints about…

     Veteran Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz admitted recently what many conservatives have long argued: taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) leans heavily to the left politically.

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     NBC’s “The Fleecing of America” is an ongoing series that tells viewers about wasteful government spending. Yet the latest edition of the series changed the rules and blamed oil companies for the government’s billion-…

     Climate change science is complex and chock-full of heated disputes between dissenting scientists, but CNN’s “American Morning” portrayed Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (R) as striving against the winds of scientific…

     The Dow Jones industrial average closed only 34 points away from its record high September 27, yet “NBC Nightly News” found a cloud to hide that silver lining.

     “Wall Street is riding high on a wave of confidence about the…

     “New York, New York is getting ready to lead the nation in evicting a killer from restaurants,” teased Katie Couric at the intro to the “Evening News.”

     The CBS anchor’s take on…

     “Just how far down and down and down are house prices going to fall?” asked CNN’s Soledad O’Brien after market prices fell for the first time in 11 years.

     O’Brien’s words…

What goes down must come up.      That’s what many reporters have been saying since gas prices started falling. Gas prices have dropped a total of 68 cents, dropping every business day for the past 35 straight business days since August 11.     …

     After weeks of CNN entertaining the notion of a gas price conspiracy and one day after the Dow Jones had it’s second highest close, CNN’s Andy Serwer flatly told viewers to ignore the idea that Republicans were…