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June 17, 2006
In the mid-1990s, aside from tobacco companies, Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) and its CEO Bill Gates were perhaps the media’s favorite corporate villain. Now he’s a media darling. On the March 3, 1998, then…
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December 9, 2009
A number of business owners have let me know of their new annoyance. They’re taking umbrage. The Great and Powerful Ozbama has chosen a new demon: the small business community. Not long ago, the rhetoric was about the need to assist small business.…
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February 20, 2007
Five days ago, Diane Sawyer promised viewers they could wake up to ABC’s morning program to find her and her colleagues “taking your case” to insurance companies “and getting answers” about unresolved Hurricane Katrina…
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February 15, 2007
Treating homeowner insurance as a right rather than a business contract, ABC’s “Good Morning America” slammed insurance underwriter State Farm for its decision to stop selling new policies to homeowners in Mississippi.…
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February 7, 2007
When it comes to featuring storylines that bash American business, a 2006 Business & Media Institute (BMI) study found NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” (SVU) one of the prime offenders. Now the gritty crime drama is making…
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January 26, 2007
Portraying an angry parent as an enemy of sound science, reporter Blaine Harden shared with Washington Post readers the story of Federal Way, Wash., science teacher Kay Walls and her struggle to show “An Inconvenient Truth”…
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January 23, 2007
Gasoline costs nearly 20 cents less than it did the same time last year, but the good news merited only a passing mention on the night before President Bush’s State of the Union address. By contrast, the networks spent more…
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January 12, 2007
One man’s punitive damages could mean distress for an industry.
But to one news anchor, it was a “victory” for the little guy.
NBC’s Brian Williams quickly…
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April 4, 2012
The ignorance of the general public was on display during
the April 1 “Meet the Press.” During
that broadcast, a very recent AARP conference call was mentioned, in which the
#1 question voiced by seniors about Obamacare was whether or not it…
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April 7, 2010
Here’s a largely unreported story: Stuffed inside the health care reform bill is a measure summarily throwing private lending institutions out of the college loan business. That business is being taken over by the federal government, with purported…