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     CNN’s Lou Dobbs and correspondent Christine Romans told their September 6 audience the American Dream is dying, citing the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI) to make that case, even though numerous studies –…

     Near the end of the movie “Saving Private Ryan,” Capt. Miller used his last breath urging the young private to “Earn this.” Brave men had given their lives to rescue Ryan and return him to his family after the deaths of his brothers. When…

     As images of hurricane victims filled the nation’s TV screens last September, network reporters and contributors painted the war on poverty as “ignored and lost.” But when the poverty rate recently showed an end to its…

     The recent massive oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico led to in-depth reports by all three network newscasts, but only NBC spun the news negatively. There it was portrayed as a loss to environmentalists and consumers.…

     “Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability,” the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) advises its members.

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     Maybe it could be called “The Conspiracy Hour with Jack Cafferty.” On the September 2 “In the Money,” the program’s host recycled his theory that gas prices are dropping because of scheming oil companies.

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     CBS celebrated California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to force 25 percent cuts in “greenhouse gas” emissions by the year 2020, painting the regulations as a sensible way to grow the economy and protect the…

     CBS News veteran Harry Smith finally confessed something that the Business & Media Institute (BMI) have reported for a while and his colleagues elsewhere in the media have already picked up on: gas prices are on a…

     What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.

     In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.

     “Gee, I’d love to be fair and balanced, but I tried even less than I did two days ago.”

     That’s what CNN’s Ali Velshi might as well have said in his August 30 story on “American…

     Labor Day isn’t just a holiday. It’s one more chance for the media to bemoan the state of the American worker. This isn’t a case of glass half full or half empty. In the news, there isn’t any glass at all – it’s been outsourced to Asia.…

     How’s the American worker doing on this Labor Day weekend?

     According to network news, he’s either about to get laid off or he’s just languishing at his current job.

     Recent coverage of work has leaned heavily…

      Happy with the falling prices at the pump? Fuhgeddaboudit!

     That’s what economic wiseguy Matt Lauer suggested to viewers of the August 30 “Today” show, even though oil…

     “We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a…

     “Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found…

     CNN’s Allen Wastler recently dialed up pro-regulation rhetoric in a rant against Verizon (NYSE: VZ). “These telecoms. Somebody ought to regulate them, huh?” a nearly apoplectic Allen Wastler asked his colleagues as he…

     With a tropical storm threatening Florida and the one-year anniversary of Katrina approaching, CNN’s August 28 “American Morning” kicked off a weeklong look at “Red Tape and Rubble” in the Gulf Coast. But Ali Velshi’s…

     Perhaps it’s a symptom of a strong economy and a high standard of living, but often the media find negative angles to technology that makes our lives, and our work, easier.

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