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     Companies can’t win – even when they literally give away money. ABC attacked businesses for helping “the corporate bottom line” by funding breast cancer research. In the process, the network relied on a critic of routine…

     With a second-straight reduction in the size of the 2006 federal deficit, NBC’s Brian Williams again sounded a pessimistic note to taxpaying viewers of his October 11 program, while ignoring arguments that shrinking…

     The media’s daily grind against the food industry continued as CBS warned viewers that even decaf coffee isn’t decaffeinated enough.

     “If you are having decaf with your…

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 Polls have repeatedly shown a public dissatisfied with the economy under President Bush. A January 2006 Pew Research Center survey said 64 percent of those questioned thought economic conditions were fair or poor – and…

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     The New York Times has put an ironic twist on the 8th Commandment: “Thou shalt not steal.” It’s accused churches nationwide of fleecing taxpayers and local governments using the First Amendment.

     The Times devoted more than 17…

     Having huffed and puffed and still not blown the housing market down, NBC News is now raising fears of another bubble. A tech bubble.

     With Internet company Google’s (NASD: GOOG…

     Each day in Darfur, 80 children younger than the age of five die because of malnutrition, disease and poor living conditions caused by the war in the Sudan. North Korea has tested nuclear weapons, and violence among ethnic and religious…

     With less than four weeks to the midterm elections, CNN is giving resident populist Lou Dobbs more room to trash the American economy, the Bush tax cuts, and free trade.

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     It took the Department of Labor several months to locate 810,000 new jobs it had overlooked – but network news still hasn’t found them, despite the agency’s report on October 6.

     The employment report was full of positive news…

       The Disney movie ‘102 Dalmatians’ should be R-rated instead of G, two anti-smoking activists insist. Not because they antagonist was a demented woman bent on turning cute puppies into a fur coat. Nope. Cruella…

     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…