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January 30, 2007
Shortly after he took over “World News” last spring, ABC’s Charles Gibson used his post as anchor to mourn a “dying” American auto industry. Gibson’s back at it again with his two-day “Running on Empty” series about Detroit automakers. The…
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January 31, 2007
American taxpayers are making possible the January 29 airing of a documentary in praise of one of the 20th century’s greatest free market advocates. And that doesn’t sit well with New York Times TV critic Ginia Bellafante, who complained of an…
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January 29, 2007
It’s been three years, and CBS’s Thalia Assuras still hasn’t done her biology homework on the limitations of the body mass index (BMI).
In a weekend “Evening News” story on a new university study that grades states with an A-F scale on…
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January 26, 2007
Nearly 90 percent of American workers do not belong to a labor union, according to new data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet when reporters for The New York Times and Associated Press reported the development, they relied…
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January 25, 2007
The Internet is making kids fat, and it’s time the government did something. That was the impression “American Morning” gave its January 25 audience with a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that neglected to give parents tips for supervising their…
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January 24, 2007
CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asked whether experts were giving a “thumbs up or thumbs down” to President Bush’s health care initiatives the morning after the State of the Union Address. But after a story featuring one thumbs-down expert, O’Brien…
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January 23, 2007
Assuming that the global warming debate is settled science, NBC Chief White House correspondent David Gregory asked the White House press secretary the morning of the State of the Union Address if President Bush would “concede that humans are…
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January 22, 2007
Global warming skeptics have been getting the cold shoulder lately, and it’s not because of the frigid winter weather. As the media have covered this winter’s weird weather patterns, they have been quick to highlight experts who finger global…
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January 22, 2007
The night before his colleague and ex-chain smoker Mike Taibbi aired two stories on a new smoking ban in Bangor, Maine, “NBC Nightly News” senior producer Ed Deitch suggested he found it odd that there would be any opposition to the ordinance…
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January 19, 2007
Just two weeks after raising alarms about the safety of 12 popular infant car seat models, Consumer Reports retracted its report after government studies debunked the results. While ABC, NBC, and CBS all covered the retraction on their January…