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October 11, 2006
With less than four weeks to the midterm elections, CNN is giving resident populist Lou Dobbs more room to trash the American economy, the Bush tax cuts, and free trade.
Associated Press television writer…
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October 6, 2006
Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson devoted an October 6 Business section article to how “Conspiracy Theories Abound as Oil Prices Fluctuate.” Yet while Mufson gave credit to CNN’s Miles O’Brien for dismissing conspiracy…
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October 6, 2006
The Dow Jones average closed at a record high for the third consecutive trading day and a retails sales report showed strong consumer activity in the month of September. But none of the three broadcast evening news programs…
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October 5, 2006
An official within an international oil cartel recently suggested calling an “emergency meeting” to arrange for oil production cuts in an attempt to drive up the price of oil. Although the move follows a smaller production…
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October 2, 2006
Veteran Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz admitted recently what many conservatives have long argued: taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) leans heavily to the left politically.
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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…