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Ken Shepherd | June 13, 2006

     The June 9 “Now with David Brancaccio” could well have been titled PBS’s “Tin-Foil Conspiracy Theatre” as the newsmagazine looked at death of the electric car from the Michael Moore-like lens of a left-wing filmmaker.…

Ken Shepherd | June 13, 2006

     Perhaps not since “Gigli” has a movie so highly anticipated by the media done so little at the box office.      Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been and still is being strongly promoted in the media, but as with the ill-fated Lopez-…

Ken Shepherd | June 12, 2006

USA Today Hypes Student Debt Loads Paper features grad student with more than double the average debt load of his peers.…

Ken Shepherd | June 12, 2006

     As graduation season wound down, the June 12 USA Today alarmed readers with a look at the “growing number of college grads” who owe more than $100,000 in student loans. But even the article’s author briefly conceded that’…

Ken Shepherd | June 9, 2006

NBC Marks Death Tax Bills Demise with Democratic Zinger Anchor Brian Williams left out conservative talking points and studies…

Ken Shepherd | June 9, 2006

CNN Airs Glowing Review of Ethanol Boom in Iowa Reporter Lothian leaves out how taxpayers are picking up a large part of the bill…

Ken Shepherd | June 9, 2006

CBS Downplays Terrorisms Impact on Oil BusinessWeek cited oil analysts who estimated much higher costs from terrorism.…

Ken Shepherd | June 9, 2006

    On the June 8 “Nightly News,” NBC’s Brian Williams squeezed in a Democratic talking point when reporting the Senate vote on the death tax.      While Williams said that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-…

Ken Shepherd | June 8, 2006

ABC Rolls Out the R-word as Markets Dip Below 11,000 Reporter Stark warns a recession could be coming, ignores how well the…

BMI Staff | June 7, 2006
'Jobs Americans Wont Do' The notorious immigration-related phrase seems to have left the president's vocabulary. He's exchanged it for jobs Americans…
Dan Gainor | June 7, 2006
     When most people hear the word Enron, they mentally complete the phrase by adding the word scandal. As reporter Lester Holt of NBCs Today put it in a January 1 story, Enron has been the poster…
Ken Shepherd | June 7, 2006

USA Today Falsely Claims Record Price of Gasoline But years ago when prices climbed, the media sometimes adjusted for inflation to…

Ken Shepherd | June 7, 2006

CBS Uses Immigration to Push Teacher Pay Complaint But teachers earn above the average U.S. wage and young people are drawn to…

Amy Menefee | June 7, 2006

Jobs Americans Wont Do Media ran with administration catchphrase despite its obvious flaws.

By Amy Menefee…

Ken Shepherd | June 6, 2006

CBS Pushes Liberal Price Gouging Storyline (Again) Evening News favors new allegations over other reasons for high prices,…

Ken Shepherd | June 2, 2006

ABC Takes a Swipe at American Auto Industry Gibson continues media focus on declining Big Three automakers, despite other…

Ken Shepherd | June 1, 2006

The Media Love Gore All the More Entertainment Weekly, Time praise the environmentalist laptop-wielding ninja

Ken Shepherd | June 1, 2006

CBS Reports Chavezs Push for Higher Oil Prices Other networks ignore story, continuing pattern of media apathy on South Americas…

BMI Staff | May 31, 2006
Its Easy Being Green Whats that smell? Whether its cow manure, home barbecues or just plain sweat, the media smell energy efficiency. Theyre taking…
Ken Shepherd | May 31, 2006

CNNs Kitty Pilgrim Slams Economy Dobbs reporter takes Treasury secretary nomination as chance to rehash attacks on Bush economy,…