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     If you want free advertising for your top-dollar vacation resort, find a way to go green and book a room for a reporter from Time magazine.      On the heels of Vanity Fairs Green…

     Sounding like a broken record, the evening newscasts for ABC, CBS, and NBC complained of record oil prices. But adjusted for inflation, oil prices are still $14 below the record high set at the…

     ABC continued its assault on the oil industry, but this time it let someone else do some of its dirty work. The network gave its First Person account of oil troubles the last word criticizing oil…

     According to The Washington Post, wealthy newcomers are forcing the middle class out of Jackson, Wyo. But the paper downplayed one of the biggest reasons for the exodus…

     A can of shaving cream for less than a dollar or a garden rake for $3.88 is a great deal for the average consumer; to The Washington Post, its just more evidence of how oppressive…

     The medias concerted push on climate change continues with Vanity Fairs first ever Green Issue.      The special editions release in mid-April is hardly accidental, with Earth Day coming up…

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When is a dollar a taxpayer dollar?      A. When it’s paying for stem cell research.      B. When it’s going to the military in Iraq.      C. When it’s supporting public education.      D. When it’s aiding sick…

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Tax dollars are all the same to the taxpayers who part with them. But the broadcast media have different standards for different dollars. Often, government programs that fit a liberal agenda get the more benign label of “…

Taxation with Misrepresentation A tax dollar by any other name spends as sweetly, but the networks dont always call attention to the fact that Joe…

     While ABC and NBC presented viewers with many of the reasons for the rising cost of gasoline, CBS ignored the link between Irans push for nuclear power and rising oil prices. Instead, the network…

     Once again Wal-Mart is under attack by interest groups hoping to use government to gum up its business operations. And once again, the media are focusing on the stores critics while downplaying the…

     A New York Times reporter who called recent corporate layoffs worse than the Great Depression was the papers choice to write about the positive job growth in the economy…

     The April 7 network morning news programs ignored data on dropping jobless claims and a rise in consumer confidence, which point to a strong economy. NBC, meanwhile, gave short shrift to a nearly 5-year…

     Continuing the media assault on profitable businesses, CBS News attacked the insurance industry for record profits in 2005, a year also beset by heavy hurricane damage claims…

Paris When It Sizzles   As French protesters clash with riot police, Americans arent getting the full story from U.S. broadcast media. Journalists…

     The youth of France are faced with unemployment rates that parallel those of the general U.S. labor force during the Great Depression, with about one out of five people aged 18 to 25 unable to find work…

     Imagine being fined by your state government for not buying something you choose to avoid purchasing. It may sound crazy, but in Massachusetts it may soon be the law.      A bill awaiting…

     The First Employment Contract (CPE is its French abbreviation), signed into law April 2 by President Jacques Chirac, eases restrictions on employers. It allows them to fire workers under the…

     Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs offer of subsidized heating oil to the frosty northeastern United States this past winter was met warmly by the broadcast media. But network interest in Chavez turned…