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May 1, 2008
Who would refuse a tax break and lower gas prices?
Maybe ABC News. The April 30 “World News with Charles Gibson” could not find a single reason to support a “holiday” on the federal gas tax…
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May 29, 2009
It’s been over 100 days since President Barack Obama signed the $787-billion stimulus bill into law and to commemorate that milestone, one media outlet hailed it as a success, at least in one corner of the world.The May 28 “NBC Nightly News”…
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October 24, 2006
The Dow Jones Industrial Average set an all time record on October 19, closing a few points about 12,000. Yet only ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” led the newscast with the news, while CBS’s Katie Couric dismissed the…
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May 27, 2009
How will President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor impact business? Or more importantly, is her nomination a sign of new rules for business in the United States?Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto claims that’s the case.…
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May 28, 2009
The national unemployment rate is 8.9 percent and even higher in places like Cambridge, Md. So you might find it strange to see NBC advocating an expansion of legal migrant labor when so many Americans are struggling.Nonetheless, former “NBC Nightly…
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April 29, 2008
It’s been 10 years since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But the way it broke changed the way the news cycle functioned and has had a profound impact on the business of media.
In 1998,…
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October 23, 2006
“Freshman 15 down to just 8,” blared an October 23 USA Today headline. But reporter Nanci Hellmich still found an appetite for worry about college students’ eating habits in her Life section article. …
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April 21, 2008
Time magazine continued to defend its manipulation of the classic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo – calling it a “point of view.” Managing Editor Richard Stengel said the cover art was part of the publication’s global warming…
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May 20, 2009
After 120 days of the new presidency, the automobile industry provides some of the best evidence of an administration that favors the heavy hand of government meddling in the private sector. And as is the case with mostcoverage of President Obama…
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April 23, 2008
It’s not quite a newsflash that Mexico has a problem with gun-yielding drug smugglers. However, ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” had a distinctive take on the problem. ABC didn’t bash because there’s a law…
