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February 13, 2006
The weekend before Valentines Day, CNN business reporters showed
their infatuation with class warfare as they courted a critic of
corporate pay scales. None of the In the Money panelists, however…
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February 3, 2006
U.S. coal mines have become safer over the past five years while
rapidly maintaining productivity and output, according to government
statistics. In fact, the U.S. coal industry is 136 million times…
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February 3, 2006
On February 9, the federal government announced that weekly jobless
claims hit the lowest average in six years a sign of job growth in
a strong economy. That night, none of the network newscasts reported…
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February 9, 2006
In New Hampshire on February 8, President Bush gave a simple lesson
journalists could use. He compared slowing spending growth to
driving the speed limit, rather than cutting spending, which would…
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February 8, 2006
After nine months of reporters such as NBCs Katie Couric prodding
women to eat low-fat diets to prevent breast cancer, a new
government study argues the hype was for nothing. Low-fat diets…
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February 7, 2006
Ronald Reagan once famously said that a government bureau is
the closest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
When President Bushs proposed fiscal year 2007 federal budget hit…
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February 6, 2006
The media have ignored or downplayed the governments latest jobs
report 193,000 new jobs in January and the lowest unemployment
rate since July 2001 continuing a trend of misreporting on…
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February 3, 2006
A newsworthy sound bite from a rock music idol on a pressing world
issue may be just the hook an evening news producer prays for, but
it doesnt excuse a lack of balance or thorough reporting. The…
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February 2, 2006
On Groundhog Day this year, newspaper readers may have had a sense
of dj vu reading about budget cuts in a narrowly-passed bill
which scales back increases in government spending. But instead of a…
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January 31, 2006
Americas largest oil company, Exxon-Mobil (NYSE:
XOM)
is reporting some jaw-dropping profits tonight, record profits in
fact for any American company ever, gasped anchor Brian Williams in…