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     Pickens gave $165 million to Oklahoma State University (OSU), and Mike Holder, the schools athletic director, made the decision to invest the programs new money with a hedge fund headed by Pickens…

     Its turn-back-the-clock day in the mainstream media and on Capitol Hill. While polyester and Depeche Mode are far from the rage in Congressional chambers and newsrooms, an overzealous fear of foreign…

     The media are frequently cynical about the private sectors profit motive, but when it comes to government schemes to rake in more cash, the same skepticism often doesnt kick in. That was the case…

     Every class has that straight-A student who studies, aces all his tests and wins all the academic awards. Other students start to envy him, but the smart students try to learn from him. Hes just working…

     The February 13 Lou Dobbs Tonight program was the first cable news outlet to report on Dubai Ports Worlds (DPW) pending acquisition of six U.S. seaports, providing alarmist, biased coverage. Eight days…

The Benefit Battle      Maryland passed a law aimed directly at Wal-Mart, and unions and the media have been hailing it as precedent-setting and groundbreaking, as CBSs Russ Mitchell and Anthony…

     CNNs got a fever, and the only prescription is more hype. Thats the diagnosis a viewer of the February 21 American Morning could draw from co-host Soledad OBrien clucking about the threat of an…

     Those free samples your doctor gives when youre sick are a symptom of an amoral market-based health care system, argues a left-leaning doctor. But to the crew of CNNs In the Money, Dr. Jerome…

     Who needs NBCs coverage of Olympic ice dancing when CBS was thrilling viewers with visions of Waterworld? No, not the 1995 Kevin Costner clunker, but an apocalyptic 60 Minutes report awash…

     Greenlands glaciers are either growing or shrinking, depending on which study you read.      The media took global warming off the back burner this week to hype an isolated study showing…

     The day after Ben Bernanke testified for the first time as Federal Reserve chairman before Congress, his textbook co-author called for substantially higher taxes on gasoline. Robert Frank, a Cornell…

     Boehner gave him a straightforward reply: Tim, we didnt. He explained that the budget-reduction measure signed by Bush would expand benefits for students, higher loan limits, lower origination…

     Since the early January Sago Mine tragedy, most media have generally slanted coverage of the U.S. mining industry in a negative direction focusing coverage on mining regulations as too weak, fines too…

     The New York Times has long made a habit of airing its disdain for big cuts in domestic spending and soaring profits at major oil companies. However, Edmund Andrews chose to reinvent the wheel by…

     CNNs Lou Dobbs has often made the Outsourcing of America a focus of his nightly program, Lou Dobbs Tonight. But on the February 13 edition, Dobbs and reporter Bill Tucker went a step further,…

     The weekend before Valentines Day, CNN business reporters showed their infatuation with class warfare as they courted a critic of corporate pay scales. None of the In the Money panelists, however…

     In New Hampshire on February 8, President Bush gave a simple lesson journalists could use. He compared slowing spending growth to driving the speed limit, rather than cutting spending, which would…