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June 29, 2004
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese
Americans could correlate closely…
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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting
that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on
at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming
that our teenagers believe they are the…
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January 20, 2004
Claims that global warming will cause
mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic
coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the
United States featured stories…
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March 8, 2006
Rather than a modern-day Paul Revere, Lou Dobbs sounded more like a
black helicopter conspiracy theorist as he warned viewers of his
March 7 program about the British owning American airports. But weeks…
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January 18, 2006
CNNs Andy Serwer fired the medias latest salvo against American
business with his January 19 swipe at corporate salaries. The
Fortune magazine editor shut out defenders of corporate executives…
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December 28, 2005
ABC reporter Dean Reynolds promised A Closer Look at the woes of
domestic auto parts maker Delphi, but instead zoomed in on a story
portraying union workers as victims and corporate executives as…
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December 27, 2005
The front page of the December 27 Investors Business Daily (IBD)
joined other print outlets in blowing hot air on the so-called
housing bubble with Home
Sales Plunge as Prices Pull Back and…
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December 21, 2005
Ringing
alarm bells about record greenhouse gas emissions, New York Times
reporter Andrew Revkin opened his December 21
article noting the U.S. Energy Department reports U.S. emissions…
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December 19, 2005
Regardless of whether a strike is called or a settlement is
reached, warned Chan and Greenhouse, the labor struggle over the
transit contract has highlighted one fact: Many workers feel they
lack dignity…