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September 22, 2006
While ABC and NBC greeted the announcement of $4 generic drugs at Wal-Mart Stores with a mostly positive reception on their September 22 programs, The New York Times took a Debbie Downer approach to the development. …
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September 26, 2006
A day after a CNBC special unilaterally declared James Hansen the “world’s leading climate scientist,” ABC’s Bill Blakemore promoted Hansen’s latest research on global warming – letting him take a swipe at the Bush…
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September 22, 2006
The rich are getting so rich, they’re “super-rich” and tax hikes are just the kryptonite government needs to bring them down to Earth. At least that’s the viewpoint of two liberal policy advocates The Washington Post’s Frank…
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September 26, 2006
The so-called housing bubble has been a media fixation for five years, so with news that the median price for existing homes is down slightly from last year, it wasn’t surprising for the broadcast media to jump on the story…
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September 21, 2006
The media rarely, if ever, worry about lawsuits sapping drug companies’ ability to fund research and development (R&D) for new drugs. Yet Soledad O’Brien found cause for concern with news that Wal-Mart will be offering…
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September 21, 2006
Last summer, news reports on the CBS “Evening News” with Bob Schieffer downplayed or outright ignored the facts that re-importing prescription drugs is illegal and can be unsafe or unreliable. But now with a new anchor at…
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September 19, 2006
An E. coli outbreak in pre-packaged spinach proved a convenient excuse for ABC to push for more regulation of American agriculture, citing the pro-regulation, anti-food industry Center for Science in the Public Interest as…
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September 20, 2006
Oil closed at a six-month low and gasoline dropped to the lowest price since mid-March on September 19. Yet of the three broadcast news programs that evening, only NBC’s Brian Williams paid attention to dropping oil and gas…
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September 13, 2006
The same New York Times reporter peeved by toy Hummers in McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) Happy Meals and funny beer ads during the Super Bowl is now is leading an assault on … salt. Reporter Melanie Warner pitted a defensive…
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September 13, 2006
“A three-year battle over the minimum wage is now over,” and “it looks the people won,” CNN’s Heidi Collins flatly declared a few minutes before noon on the September 13 edition of CNN “Live Today.” But in doing so, Collins…
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