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| November 30, 2005
     Despite the fact that he has set aside most principles of journalistic balance, the National Television Academy is presenting CNN business anchor Lou Dobbs with its Lifetime Achievement Award…
Ken Shepherd | November 28, 2005
     Heaping up more one-sided coverage on the obesity issue, CNNs In the Money touted a star of the anti-food-industry Supersize Me on November 26.       Christine Romans opened the segment with New York…
Ken Shepherd | November 28, 2005
     Regular unleaded gasoline peaked in early September this year at $3.06 and has continued to fall, hitting just $2.15 per gallon. That would be news to CBSs Joie Chen, who misrepresented prices at the pump in a November 27 Evening…
BMI Staff | November 23, 2005

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Ken Shepherd | November 23, 2005
     Energy Drink Profits May Be Addictive, warns the subhead of the top story in the November 23 Business Day section of The New York Times. Staff writer Melanie Warners focused on critics of energy drinks who argued that…
| November 23, 2005
     There is a terrible, yet predictable, irony in the medias coverage of General Motors Corp.       Journalists have concentrated on the recent layoff announcements impact on unionized workers. What theyve…
Ken Shepherd | November 22, 2005
     In its fight against American business - which it depicted as waging a "war on the middle class" - CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" once again was out crusading for the left while cloaking the ideology of the…
Ken Shepherd | November 21, 2005
     Infusing humor into a liberal message about global warming, celebrities appearing on Sunday TBS special, Earth to America, took frequent digs at Bush administration policies. But as humorous as some of the appearances were, they…
Ken Shepherd | November 20, 2005
     The broadcast media have often paid short shrift to corporate philanthropic donations, preferring to focus on layoffs, downsizing, lawsuits, scandals, and other stories that portray American business…
| November 18, 2005
     This holiday season is a bittersweet one for the entire country. For most people, the theme for this Thanksgiving will certainly be strength in the face of adversity. America has weathered a season of…
| November 18, 2005
     In case you didnt know, Wal-Mart not only wants to take over the world, destroy communities and stick it to workers it wants to let you die in its parking lot.      Thats the picture of the…
Ken Shepherd | November 18, 2005
     I have an SUV, and I feel guilty about it, ABC reporter Bill Weir confessed to liberal activist Laurie David. Absolving him of his venial environmental sin, David counseled Weir on his penance, Next…
Ken Shepherd | November 18, 2005
     Andy Serwers economic reporting brings to mind the Saturday Night Live skits portraying Sean Connery as a contestant in Celebrity Jeopardy hes often providing answers that dont correspond with…
Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2005
     When teenage fashion habits are getting attention from congressional budgeters, even CNNs American Morning can expose pork-barrel spending for what it is.      Soledad OBriens segment on the…
Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2005
     Today what makes Governors great is not the loft of their dreams but the depths of their pragmatism, Time magazine gushed in its November 21 edition, praising five governors who can reckon with…
BMI Staff | November 16, 2005

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Dan Gainor | November 16, 2005
     The climate is changing right before our very eyes. Its not the weather Im talking about its the media climate.      On Sunday, November 14, Fox News set aside its status as the best network…
Ken Shepherd | November 16, 2005
     On the Nov. 16 American Morning, CNN business reporter Andy Serwer worried that Congress might not have the fortitude to go ahead with final passage of a new windfall profits tax on oil companies…
| November 15, 2005
     In his November 14 Washington Post column, Sebastian Mallaby released what must have been hours of pent up frustration about everything from inequality in the United States to legislators…
| November 15, 2005
     In his November 14 Washington Post column, Sebastian Mallaby released what must have been hours of pent up frustration about everything from inequality in the United States to legislators…