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 American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the Big Three automakers.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

     It sounded like a spy thriller: Kremlin critic dies in London after being poisoned with a radioactive material.

     But instead of dispelling fears surrounding the actual death of…

    CNN’s Lou Dobbs often worries that Detroit is dying because of trade with Japan and other car-producing countries. But on his November 28 program, Dobbs turned his ire to one of Detroit’s Big Three, declaring a fatwa on Ford…

     In 1975, Bob Dylan sang about being given “shelter from the storm.” In 2006, the media warned us that was what everyone would need facing another devastating hurricane season.

     Americans braced back in May as the media belted…

     The FDA has put silicone breast implants back on the market. But journalists, who hyped the implants’ dangers more than a decade ago, have shown they’re not convinced.

     “Given the history of this product, I think a lot of…

     American laborers are “going to extremes” working in jobs “where 60 hours a week can be considered part-time, and overtime is an understatement.”

     That’s how ABC anchor Charles…

     Pity the poor 20-something – at least that’s what ABC and its partner USA Today seem to want to you to do. The two news organizations teamed up to portray young adults drowning in the “national crisis” of “college loans…

     Just two days before the start of the Christmas shopping season, USA Today provided parents a “tip sheet to know what to watch for to shield their kids, and themselves” – shielding from dastardly retailers, that is.

     “So are we OK or in the early stages of a housing-led crash that might depress us all?”

     That was the leading question of PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman on the November 17 “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”

     The…