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June 29, 2006
Detroit is finally wising up about its cars. It’s taking a smaller-is-better cue from Europe, CBS told viewers of the June 28 “Evening News.”
But reporter John Blackstone’s take on DaimlerChrysler’s…
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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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October 25, 2006
Jesse Williams started smoking as a 21-year-old soldier in Korea in 1950. Though Williams was taught as a child that it was unhealthy to smoke, and, in turn, taught his children not to smoke, he refused entreaties from doctors and family to…
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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…
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December 15, 2005
Lower energy prices have spurred a significant drop in consumer
prices according to a December 15 report from a federal agency that
tracks economic data. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U…
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December 12, 2005
Forecasting a bleak sweater-swaddled winter for middle class
Americans on the December 12 Evening News, CBS correspondent Jim
Axelrod exaggerated the rise of natural gas heating costs by about…