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February 27, 2006
The February 26 NBC Nightly News treated a move by Wal-Mart (NYSE:
WMT) to expand health care benefits
as an opportunity to stack the deck with another attack on the
retail chain and a liberal…
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February 24, 2006
After Enrons collapse, the media frequently reminded the public of
political ties top executives in the failed energy company had to
the Bush administration. The same standard, however, wasnt applied…
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February 23, 2006
The media are frequently cynical about the private sectors profit
motive, but when it comes to government schemes to rake in more
cash, the same skepticism often doesnt kick in. That was the case…
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February 22, 2006
The February 13 Lou Dobbs Tonight program was the first cable news outlet to
report on Dubai Ports Worlds (DPW) pending acquisition of six U.S.
seaports, providing alarmist, biased coverage. Eight days…
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February 21, 2006
CNNs got a fever, and the only prescription is more hype. Thats
the diagnosis a viewer of the February 21 American Morning could
draw from co-host Soledad OBrien clucking about the threat of an…
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February 20, 2006
Those free samples your doctor gives when youre sick are a symptom
of an amoral market-based health care system, argues a
left-leaning doctor. But to the crew of CNNs In the Money, Dr.
Jerome…
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February 20, 2006
Who needs NBCs coverage of Olympic ice dancing when CBS was
thrilling viewers with visions of Waterworld?
No, not the 1995 Kevin Costner clunker, but an apocalyptic 60
Minutes report awash…
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February 17, 2006
Greenlands glaciers are either growing or shrinking, depending on
which study you read.
The media took global warming off the back burner this
week to hype an isolated study showing…
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February 16, 2006
The day after Ben Bernanke testified for the first time as Federal
Reserve chairman before Congress, his textbook co-author called for
substantially higher taxes on gasoline. Robert Frank, a Cornell…
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February 15, 2006
Since the early January Sago Mine tragedy, most media have generally
slanted coverage of the U.S. mining industry in a negative direction
focusing coverage on mining regulations as too weak, fines too…