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     Starting off a weeks worth of in-depth reporting on global warming, World News Tonight falsely presented a liberal journalist and author as a Pulitzer Prize winner…

     I hope gas prices go as high as they have to go to get the rest of these morons off the road in these big Hummers, CNNs Jack Cafferty exploded on the March 25 In the Money.     …

     Professor Jonathan Overpeck once complained journalists were too concerned about balance in global warming stories. Now hes the centerpiece of two one-sided reports based on his predictions of…

     Introducing what ABC called the end of 20th century industrial America, anchor Elizabeth Vargas portrayed a cost-cutting move by money-losing General Motors (NYSE: GM) and bankrupt…

     The end is near.      As near as your remote control, at least. All you have to do is turn on, tune in and drop any pretense of news. CNN Presents, the networks award-winning weekly…

     USA Today put its own negative spin on record home ownership numbers, declaring in the March 22 issue that Fewer families can afford a home.      Working with a…

     The first day of spring proved perfect timing for the CBSs Jim Acosta to resurrect global warming as the villain behind last years hurricane season, downplaying how hotly debated the matter is in the…

     Im amazed that Americans at this point are really fairly unconcerned about bird flu and mad cow disease, the Bryn Mawr alumna confessed, noting that a drop in foreign sales of Tyson chicken has…

     On the St. Patricks Day Today show, NBCs Ann Curry asked colleague Jim Cramer for his reaction to a new government report showing consumer prices have jumped. The real numbers actually showed…

     Asking if states pay too much to land job-generating foreign investments like auto plants, ABCs World News Tonight found a critic to sing a sour note about a plant Kia Motors announced it will…

Where Do We Go from Dubai? The headliners of Dubai ports stories were politicians pontificating about national security. But who knew that foreign…

     The media love stories about the gap between the rich and poor in America. But they rarely explore that gap, why it exists, and what it means.      It is an interesting question whether a…

     Sounding like a broken record, the media again are squawking about record profits for oil companies in light of a new round of congressional hearings on oil and gas prices.      Both CBS and…

     Raddatzs story followed, highlighting a day of high political drama, closed White House meetings and deal-making.      It wasnt until the dust had begun to settle the next day…

     What a difference three years and a microscopic virus make. In February 2003, ABC featured critics who argued that duct tape government officials urged people to buy couldnt fix everything.…

     Just in time for spring break, ABCs 20/20 bellied up to the bar with two stories on women and binge drinking. The March 10 edition was enough to frighten already worried parents about their college…

     As the port management controversy churned inside Washington, CNNs Lou Dobbs and NBCs Chip Reid attacked a British firm that contracts security services to the Department of Homeland Security. But they…

     On March 2 a major oil company operating within the United States announced it would take steps to avoid reporting to the U.S. government. But in the week since, none of the three broadcast…

Avian Flu: A Media Pandemic The media are abuzz with the terrible possibility of an avian flu pandemic. Even though cooked meat is safe to eat,…

     Rather than a modern-day Paul Revere, Lou Dobbs sounded more like a black helicopter conspiracy theorist as he warned viewers of his March 7 program about the British owning American airports. But weeks…