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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…
Ken Shepherd | November 15, 2005
     Stock up on your oatmeal and flax seed because CBS News this week is taking you on a road trip with junk food-resistant correspondent Mika Brzezinski. The road-tripping correspondent weighed in on an…
Ken Shepherd | November 14, 2005
     CNNs Jack Cafferty and Andy Serwer attempted to use the November 12 In the Money to bash fat cat corporate bosses raking in big profits. But while Cafferty and crew stayed on message skewering Big Oil on Saturday, their guest,…
Dan Gainor | November 14, 2005
     It began with all the hype of a Hollywood movie trailer. Flickering scenes of smokestacks, trucks and cars whizzing down the highway and dead fish in a stream were overlain with this ominous message: "The…
R. Warren Anderson | November 11, 2005
     CBSs Bob Schieffer offered viewers a solution to high energy prices that may be as plain as daylight. Yet the truth of the matter was far different and the November 10 report showed the network…
Noel Sheppard | November 10, 2005
     CBS wasnt alone. Headlines like The Dollars Decline Does Matter, Consumers Could Get Caught Under Falling Dollar, and The Dangerous Dollar were all the rage as Americas currency was…
R. Warren Anderson | November 10, 2005
     With oil executives testifying before Congress, the news media continued drilling the industry for high profits.      ABCs Good Morning America only found negative things to say about the oil…
BMI Staff | November 9, 2005

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Gary Wolfram, Ph.D. | November 9, 2005
     History has proven the efficacy of market capitalism in producing wealth for the masses. The fall of the Soviet Union, the movement of China and India to market economies, and the influx of immigrants…