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September 28, 2006
“New York, New York is getting ready to lead the nation in evicting a killer from restaurants,” teased Katie Couric at the intro to the “Evening News.”
The CBS anchor’s take on a proposed trans…
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October 5, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it’s safe to eat spinach again, following a recent E. coli scare. But a story in the Money section for the October 5 “USA Today” sought to trouble readers afresh with produce…
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September 29, 2006
NBC’s “The Fleecing of America” is an ongoing series that tells viewers about wasteful government spending. Yet the latest edition of the series changed the rules and blamed oil companies for the government’s billion-dollar…
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September 28, 2006
Climate change science is complex and chock-full of heated disputes between dissenting scientists, but CNN’s “American Morning” portrayed Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (R) as striving against the winds of scientific…
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September 27, 2006
After weeks of CNN entertaining the notion of a gas price conspiracy and one day after the Dow Jones had it’s second highest close, CNN’s Andy Serwer flatly told viewers to ignore the idea that Republicans were artificially…
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September 22, 2006
While ABC and NBC greeted the announcement of $4 generic drugs at Wal-Mart Stores with a mostly positive reception on their September 22 programs, The New York Times took a Debbie Downer approach to the development. …
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September 26, 2006
A day after a CNBC special unilaterally declared James Hansen the “world’s leading climate scientist,” ABC’s Bill Blakemore promoted Hansen’s latest research on global warming – letting him take a swipe at the Bush…
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September 22, 2006
The rich are getting so rich, they’re “super-rich” and tax hikes are just the kryptonite government needs to bring them down to Earth. At least that’s the viewpoint of two liberal policy advocates The Washington Post’s Frank…
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September 26, 2006
The so-called housing bubble has been a media fixation for five years, so with news that the median price for existing homes is down slightly from last year, it wasn’t surprising for the broadcast media to jump on the story…
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September 21, 2006
The media rarely, if ever, worry about lawsuits sapping drug companies’ ability to fund research and development (R&D) for new drugs. Yet Soledad O’Brien found cause for concern with news that Wal-Mart will be offering…