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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…
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October 13, 2006
Companies can’t win – even when they literally give away money. ABC attacked businesses for helping “the corporate bottom line” by funding breast cancer research. In the process, the network relied on a critic of routine…
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October 12, 2006
With a second-straight reduction in the size of the 2006 federal deficit, NBC’s Brian Williams again sounded a pessimistic note to taxpaying viewers of his October 11 program, while ignoring arguments that shrinking deficits…
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October 12, 2006
The media’s daily grind against the food industry continued as CBS warned viewers that even decaf coffee isn’t decaffeinated enough.
“If you are having decaf with your breakfast this morning,…
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October 10, 2006
The Disney movie ‘102 Dalmatians’ should be R-rated instead of G, two anti-smoking activists insist. Not because they antagonist was a demented woman bent on turning cute puppies into a fur coat. Nope. Cruella De…
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October 11, 2006
Having huffed and puffed and still not blown the housing market down, NBC News is now raising fears of another bubble. A tech bubble.
With Internet company Google’s (NASD: GOOG) recent purchase…