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     Elderly care worker Hopal Morrison never used to have to ask clients to pay for her gas, but now she has to and it hurts, CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi told viewers of the May 1 CBS Evening…

     Take more government regulation and call me in the morning.      Thats the advice ABCs Dr. Timothy Johnson gave on vitamin supplements on the May 1 World News Tonight.      Tim, why don't…

     Why doesn't the president and the Republican Party also talk about the economy? It's just right there in front of them, CNNs Andy Serwer asked University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato…

     How young is too young to start worrying about your childs weight? ABCs Elizabeth Vargas asked, teasing a story by Lisa Stark about the World Health Organizations new measurements for body mass…

Hugo Chavez is pumping some of his billions in oil money into undermining American interests.      The same night on the CBS Evening News, correspondent Byron Pitts slammed American petroleum…

Attacking Executive Pay While Shielding Courics of the World From ExxonMobils Lee Raymond to United Health Groups William McGuire, the networks have called…

     Are the media having an Office Space moment? If they got the memo on consumer confidence, they sure arent reporting it.      On April 25, The…

     Well, maybe we could have more, OBrien blithely replied.      Every American motorist already pays 18 cents on the gallon to Uncle Sam and anywhere from 8 to 45 cents per gallon to state…

     Rather than an incubator of bird flu that could doom the masses, U.S. chicken farms might actually help isolate American poultry from infection with avian flu.      Correspondent Tom Costello…

     A liberal blogger who blamed war profiteers, neo-conservatives, and supporters of Israel as three real reasons for the war in Iraq was Parade magazines choice to ask Is the American Dream…

     Corn-based ethanol isnt all its cracked up to be, the media are finding out now. But for years, conservative critics have criticized ethanol as an energy alternative panacea.      With gas…

     If a powerful New York union had gone on strike this morning, CNNs Andy Serwer might have had a tougher time getting to work. Hed have had to open the front door himself…

     Ten days after hinting the Earth could end up roasting at a toasty 900 degrees Fahrenheit like the planet Venus, The Washington Post reported on a new study which finds that the more extreme estimates…

     But sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut. All three broadcast networks found time in the April 19 evening newscasts to nibble on the new numbers released by the federal government…

Earth Day Special The Business…

     I paid too much for gasoline last week. My fill-up of premium gas cost me $3.04 per gallon or $42.40 just to replenish the near-empty tank. Premium? Heck, we might as well change the name to…

     Were Eating More, and Enjoying It Less, blared the headline for Candy Sagons Food section article in the April 19 Washington Post. Is it any wonder why with the medias persistent attacks on…

     From the moment Angela Lansbury (yes, Angela Lansbury) opened the film singing, Someone has wounded you, dear world Someone has poisoned you, dear world it was clear that the culprits in this…

     After the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, it didnt take long for environmentalists to cry gloom and doom and for the media to hype those claims. From caribou dying to earthquakes to all hell…