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September 27, 2006
The Dow Jones had its second-best closing average ever and consumer confidence shot up, but CBS and NBC undercut the good news with speculation on hurricanes and “echoes” of corporate scandals.
“With gas prices dropping by the day,…
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September 26, 2006
On her September 24 edition of Global Players, CNBC’s Sabine Christiansen’s notion of a balanced panel was four global warming proponents versus one global warming skeptic.
“Scientists say we are reaching a tipping point. That if we don’…
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September 11, 2006
The Kyoto Protocol’s costs are coming as a shock to many German businesses and consumers. They’re finding higher utility costs resulting from their government’s implementation of the climate change treaty, The Wall Street Journal reported on…
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August 31, 2006
What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.
In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.
“[T]he current…
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August 29, 2006
“We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a cardiologist…
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August 29, 2006
“Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found that…
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August 24, 2006
What goes up must come down. When you’re comparing lower prices to record highs, it’s difficult not to see a drop.
Unfortunately, media reports continue to ignore the fact that comparing current housing prices to the past few years…
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August 17, 2006
The day after the government released July 2006 consumer price index (CPI) data, most media outlets portrayed the new numbers as a positive development, including the Associated Press. Yet The Washington Post gave a pessimistic slant to the…
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August 15, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs attacked the federal government for overspending, heavy borrowing, and poor accounting practices on his August 14 program. Yet in doing so, the anchor actually praised a liberal Democrat criticized for his own spendthrift record…
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August 14, 2006
Being a news anchor isn’t rocket science. But a little bit of basic arithmetic couldn’t hurt.
NBC’s Natalie Morales and CBS’s Julie Chen mistakenly told their respective August 14 morning show audiences that gasoline prices of $3.03-a-…
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