Latest Blogs

     While ABC and NBC presented viewers with many of the reasons for the rising cost of gasoline, CBS ignored the link between Irans push for nuclear power and rising oil prices. Instead, the network…

     Once again Wal-Mart is under attack by interest groups hoping to use government to gum up its business operations. And once again, the media are focusing on the stores critics while downplaying the…

     A New York Times reporter who called recent corporate layoffs worse than the Great Depression was the papers choice to write about the positive job growth in the economy…

     The April 7 network morning news programs ignored data on dropping jobless claims and a rise in consumer confidence, which point to a strong economy. NBC, meanwhile, gave short shrift to a nearly 5-year…

     Continuing the media assault on profitable businesses, CBS News attacked the insurance industry for record profits in 2005, a year also beset by heavy hurricane damage claims…

Paris When It Sizzles   As French protesters clash with riot police, Americans arent getting the full story from U.S. broadcast media. Journalists…

     The youth of France are faced with unemployment rates that parallel those of the general U.S. labor force during the Great Depression, with about one out of five people aged 18 to 25 unable to find work…

     Imagine being fined by your state government for not buying something you choose to avoid purchasing. It may sound crazy, but in Massachusetts it may soon be the law.      A bill awaiting…

     The First Employment Contract (CPE is its French abbreviation), signed into law April 2 by President Jacques Chirac, eases restrictions on employers. It allows them to fire workers under the…

     Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs offer of subsidized heating oil to the frosty northeastern United States this past winter was met warmly by the broadcast media. But network interest in Chavez turned…

     It was dj vu on ABC News as World News Tonight repeated a February 24 New York Times attempt to discredit philanthropist Boone Pickens. Reporter Brian Ross even used the same…

     The current issue of BusinessWeek conceded what the Business…

     Following on the heels of Time magazines alarmist cover stories on global warming, this weekends release of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown has given movie reviewers for major newspapers a…

     When environmentalists want regulation, its never enough. And the media are often willing to give them the spotlight.      New fuel efficiency regulations have the media going…

March Madness: Full-Court Press on Global Warming   Its Time and ABC, and other media outlets promoting the threat of manmade climate change. Theyre pushing…

     Its Time for the end of the world.      Its also ABC, CNN, CBS and Newsweek, all promoting a climate disaster that would end the world as we know it raising sea levels…

     The New York Times has found another example of corporate evil to fight: funny beer ads.      Citing left-wing advocacy groups, Times writer Melanie Warner penned a…

     Behind a cover that read, Be Worried. Be Very Worried, Time informed its readers: in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. That was a common assumption…

     CNNs Lou Dobbs is always pontificating about national security, especially when it comes to international trade but on March 27 he was frowning on an extra port security measure…