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September 8, 2006
New York Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Stephanie Strom took a shot at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) with a September 8 article slamming conservative think tanks for receiving money from the Walton family.
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September 7, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs and correspondent Christine Romans told their September 6 audience the American Dream is dying, citing the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI) to make that case, even though numerous studies – including a…
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September 6, 2006
The recent massive oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico led to in-depth reports by all three network newscasts, but only NBC spun the news negatively. There it was portrayed as a loss to environmentalists and consumers.…
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September 11, 2006
The recent discovery of new oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico was the perfect excuse for CNN’s Jack Cafferty to revisit his election-year conspiracy theory. But when the September 9 “In the Money” aired, the program’s…
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September 5, 2006
Maybe it could be called “The Conspiracy Hour with Jack Cafferty.” On the September 2 “In the Money,” the program’s host recycled his theory that gas prices are dropping because of scheming oil companies.
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September 12, 2006
Leave it to The New York Times to worry about government “losing” money with Chevron’s (NYSE: CVX) recent discovery of a multi-billion-barrel reserve of oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
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October 25, 2006
Less than two weeks before the November elections, an NBC “Today” show co-host asked, “are we being manipulated” by falling gas prices. Reporter Carl Quintanilla dismissed the idea but still cast “Big Oil” and conservatives…
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September 6, 2006
“Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources' reliability,” the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) advises its members.
That…
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October 26, 2006
If NBC’s Carl Quintanilla is in a bind about what to wear to the NBC News Halloween party, he could always go as a “housing bubble.”
With only five days until Halloween, NBC “Today” show sought…
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October 18, 2006
Hours before Lou Dobbs’s “War on the Middle Class” special was set to air on CNN, the October 18 New York Times poked holes in one of the fears Dobbs has often peddled to viewers – the “threat” to the U.S. auto…