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November 14, 2006
Driving headlong into a favorite media bogeyman, the sport utility vehicle (SUV), CNN’s November 14 edition of “American Morning” hyped the danger of death and injury to children from vehicle backup accidents while weaving around…
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November 15, 2006
It’s Congress’s money, but thankfully for the middle class, the Democrats will let you keep a bit more of it while raising taxes on “the rich” elsewhere. That was the message to CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s look at…
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November 6, 2006
NBC’s “Today” show served up fear for millions of American parents with its sensational coverage of a new study on school bus injuries. But in doing so, reporter Tom Costello left out just how safe school buses are compared…
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November 3, 2006
Just hours before unemployment dropped to a 5-year low and just five days before an election, CBS’s Katie Couric was warning about “jobs in jeopardy.”
Couric, who also had downplayed the recent Dow…
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November 1, 2006
Wages are growing at the fastest pace since the last election year, but USA Today spun that news negatively in its November 1 paper. Instead, readers got a unhealthy dose of inflation worries.
“Ask most…
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September 8, 2006
New York Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Stephanie Strom took a shot at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) with a September 8 article slamming conservative think tanks for receiving money from the Walton family.
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September 7, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs and correspondent Christine Romans told their September 6 audience the American Dream is dying, citing the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI) to make that case, even though numerous studies – including a…
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September 6, 2006
The recent massive oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico led to in-depth reports by all three network newscasts, but only NBC spun the news negatively. There it was portrayed as a loss to environmentalists and consumers.…
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September 11, 2006
The recent discovery of new oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico was the perfect excuse for CNN’s Jack Cafferty to revisit his election-year conspiracy theory. But when the September 9 “In the Money” aired, the program’s…
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September 5, 2006
Maybe it could be called “The Conspiracy Hour with Jack Cafferty.” On the September 2 “In the Money,” the program’s host recycled his theory that gas prices are dropping because of scheming oil companies.
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