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The images of the 2005 hurricane season are seared into the minds of the American public. Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf region dominated news coverage, but it was just one of 13 hurricanes during the…

     Holiday traditions are grounded in stories from the past, including how St. Nicholas became Jolly St. Nick. But some storytellers are hard at work no matter what the season. You can always trust the…

     Economist Brian Wesbury has called them Pouting Pundits of Pessimism. These are the members of the media who seem to be focused on the negatives and cant find the positives in the economic…

     SpongeBob SquarePants is the new Joe Camel. Thats the alarm bell CBS health reporter Dr. Emily Senay clanged for parents in her HealthWatch segment with co-host Julie Chen on the December 7…

     Storm began her interview by noting 215,000 new jobs were added to the economy in November and asked Dobbs, Is the economy strong? Whats the bottom line?      The CNN business anchor conceded…

     Three days after airing stories on the strong U.S. economy, the network morning shows returned to pessimism. The December 5 morning shows…

     Taking that cue, business reporter Andy Serwer promised it was bad news especially if youre an auto worker, noting that mornings edition of The Wall Street Journal reported Ford Motor Company planned on…

     The economy is showing strong signs of life with good reports on economic growth, consumer confidence, and new housing sales hitting the news wires in late November. But CBS Evening News and ABCs…

     Contrary to the medias pessimistic forecasts for the Christmas shopping season reported by the Business…

     Housing prices are going through the roof. After the dot-com bubble, we need to be extremely cautious with our money and steer clear of something risky like purchasing homes. We need to avoid having the…

     Theres no denying Hurricane Katrina was easily the worst storm of a devastating hurricane season, but on the November 29 CBS Evening News reporter Jim Acosta couldnt help but exaggerate. Acosta…

     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…

     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…

     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…

     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…

     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…

     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…

     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…