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February 15, 2008
Sometimes the media lose sight of the fact that businesses exist to make money and have to protect the bottom line.
Minneapolis-based Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA), is negotiating a merger deal…
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January 13, 2009
Change we can all believe in? How about the same song and dance, but just a different day?In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign…
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July 21, 2006
ABC’s Charles Gibson gave viewers of the July 20 “World News Tonight” little to chew on when he told them the government was scaling back testing for mad cow disease. The anchor only put forth the anti-industry side of…
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February 12, 2008
With all the doom and gloom talk about the economy, especially on “CBS Evening News,” anchor Katie Couric touted a “safer investment” on February 11.
Couric’s magic bullet was a sure thing –…
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February 12, 2008
Take an anti-credit card lending activist, one liberal congresswoman and a disgruntled credit card holder, and you have the stacked deck against lenders that ABC used on February 11.
“World…
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February 13, 2008
No amount of reprieve for debtors is “sufficient” for critics. Following the Bush administration’s latest announcement of a mortgage grace period, ABC News fretted.
The administration, in…
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July 11, 2006
Young people are too busy buying scores of jeans to worry about socking away money for retirement, ABC’s Betsy Stark suggested to viewers in the first story in her “Money Trap” series on American debt. But Stark left out…
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February 13, 2008
At age 73 and just over four years of being out of politics, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown has a unique perspective on both the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential candidacies.
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July 5, 2006
Hollywood usually gets a pass from the media’s participation in promoting class envy, but NBC’s Michael Okwu found a way to attack A-list Hollywood celebrities: their voiceover work for TV commercials. …
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June 20, 2006
The only thing CNN contributor Andy Serwer was missing for a recent business update was appearing on air in a leisure suit. The Fortune magazine editor raised concerns of 1970s, disco-era “…