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     Raul Castro: a free enterprise-friendly Communist?

     That’s how NBC’s Andrea Mitchell portrayed the 75-year old brother of Cuba dictator Fidel Castro in her report on the August…

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     As sure as the sun rises in the east, when a heat wave engulfs the continental United States, it dawns on the media that “global warming” may be to blame. Such was the case with CBS’s Bob Orr on the July 31 “Evening News…

     The CBS “Evening News” may want to change its theme music to R.E.M.’s “End of the World As We Know It.”

     Nearly two months into a quiet hurricane season, CBS’s Michelle Miller alarmed viewers of the July 30 broadcast with…

     It’s not every day a politician calls for a 100-percent tax rate on national TV. Even the most liberal-friendly of journalists would be inclined to question such a punitive idea. But when former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich called…

     What’s next, a “Dateline NBC” sting operation to snag Toucan Sam?

     Basing her story on a July 19 study by the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC’s Lisa Stark offered the…

     Last week White House officials announced that the current year’s budget deficit estimate had shrunk by more than 25 percent, to $296 billion. The fiscal picture has brightened due to a surge in revenues from the ongoing economic expansion…

     A new batch of real estate data gave the media a chance to pull out its recipe for half-baked reporting on the housing market.

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    OK. Who outsourced Lou Dobbs’s dictionary to China?

     That has to be the only explanation for why CNN’s resident anti-free trader Lou Dobbs claimed a guest critical of the Bush administration’s trade…

      Gas prices at an “all-time high” was the attention-getting tease from the July 24 “Today” show. NBC used it to promote a segment on saving money by switching from premium gas. But it wasn’t premium coverage. Regular…

     It’s a slow news day and you’re an environment reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. What do you do to kill time before your bicycle ride home? If you’re The Washington Post’s Michael Grunwald, you might pen a…

     If you want to read between the lines for politicians, it helps if you know what book they’re reading. In the case of liberal would-be tax fixer Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), it appears to be Mao’s “Little Red Book.”

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      ABC’s Charles Gibson gave viewers of the July 20 “World News Tonight” little to chew on when he told them the government was scaling back testing for mad cow disease. The anchor only put forth the anti-industry side…

     Instead of worrying about the burst of the “housing bubble” you might as well watch paint dry or your grass grow. CNN’s “American Morning” is no longer forecasting doom and gloom for the US housing market. On July 21…

     On July 19, a federal judge struck down a state law aimed at punishing Wal-Mart for spending “too little” on health insurance. The next day’s coverage in The New York Times and The Washington Post portrayed the court case…

     A think tank with ties to liberal financier George Soros was called simply as “nonprofit” in a recent New York Times article on privatized prisons.

     “The increasing…

     It hasn’t been long since the cowboy was the defining image of America – to friends and enemies alike. The cowboy stood strong and tall – always willing to fight for a good cause. And where he stood, he stood for something important,…

     Oil speculators are staying busy these days, and they’re not just on the trading floor. They’re active at all three broadcast news networks, helping to hype oil prices even higher than…