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June 19, 2006
CNN gave viewers a sort of Saturday morning fever as CNN’s Andy Serwer raised fears of stagflation sapping the economy’s strength on the June 17 “In the Money.” “Stagflation” is a term coined in the 1970s to refer to high inflation coupled with…
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June 13, 2006
Perhaps not since “Gigli” has a movie so highly anticipated by the media done so little at the box office. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been and still is being strongly promoted in the media, but as with the ill-fated Lopez-…
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December 28, 2007
Just how good are those so-called experts who appear regularly on the news making stock picks and predictions about the economy? BusinessWeek gave readers the opportunity to see.
Some of the most prominent business and economic media…
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November 29, 2007
Salt – it’s the new trans fat, only worse.
“Salt trumps fat,” Michael Jacobson of the left-wing Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said on the November 28 “CBS Evening News.”
Now that CSPI has been somewhat successful…
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November 28, 2007
The Smithsonian is falling apart and the only way it can be saved is with more money.
What else is new – another government bureau is pleading for more money, right?
Aside from the fact that according to the November 25 “NBC…
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November 15, 2007
The media are in love with billionaire Warren Buffett. But it’s not for his charitable donations, nor his wise investing sense – it’s because he’s been on a class warfare crusade calling for more taxes on wealthy Americans.
“[A]…
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November 13, 2007
When was the last time you saw two-year-old meat in your grocer’s fridge?
CBS “Early Show” correspondent Chip Reid used hamburger meat dated Nov. 26, 2005, to suggest consumers could be hoodwinked by meat packagers that use carbon…
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October 30, 2007
You know troubled times are looming if Hillary Clinton is elected president when even the once-top aide to the former liberal Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill and MSNBC “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews says so.
Matthews…
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October 11, 2007
It’s ironic when the “CBS Evening News” takes up for a business that openly breaks the law, but such was the case on the October 10 broadcast.
“Jim Zappala says the federal crackdown is killing his business right in the middle of harvest,”…
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October 4, 2007
Blackwater USA, now one of the media’s favorite targets, can’t seem to get any credit even when something goes right.
The company, once described as “an entirely new type of war profiteer” by CNBC contributor Jon Markman, saved Polish…