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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…