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October 18, 2006
Are you happy that gas prices are down to earth again? Good, now’s the perfect time to tax you more for it, if only it wasn’t political suicide to do so.
That’s the tone Washington Post reporter Steve Mufson took in his October 18 business…
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October 18, 2006
“The middle class still says generally it feels like the American Dream is a lost cause.”
Thus began the last 12 hours of CNN’s in-house PR push for Lou Dobbs’s October 18 special “War on the Middle Class.” Dobbs himself has been fond of…
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October 17, 2006
The second day into Prescription For Change, a
weeklong series on American health care, ABC News revealed its recent poll found
nearly 9 out of 10 Americans are happy with their health care. But rather than
finding the statistic an…
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October 16, 2006
In search of a “Prescription for Change” for “fixing American health care,” anchor Dan Harris of ABC’s “World News Sunday” promised viewers a weeklong look at “one of the most urgent and expensive issues facing this country.” But the medicine…
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October 4, 2006
October 3 saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average close at a record high of 11,727.34. The “CBS Evening News” saw economic trouble on the horizon.
While CBS’s Anthony Mason offered qualified praise for the market’s recent rally, he sowed…
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October 3, 2006
Five days after CNN’s Miles O’Brien painted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) as a quixotic crusader against an overwhelming consensus on climate change, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee got a chance to take on the…
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October 2, 2006
Praise the Lord and pass the tax bill.
The October 1 edition of ABC’s “World News Sunday” preached that the 51 houses of worship in Stafford, Texas, are a holy terror to the city’s finances, citing the mayor’s complaints about lack of tax…
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September 27, 2006
The Dow Jones had its second-best closing average ever and consumer confidence shot up, but CBS and NBC undercut the good news with speculation on hurricanes and “echoes” of corporate scandals.
“With gas prices dropping by the day,…
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September 26, 2006
On her September 24 edition of Global Players, CNBC’s Sabine Christiansen’s notion of a balanced panel was four global warming proponents versus one global warming skeptic.
“Scientists say we are reaching a tipping point. That if we don’…
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September 11, 2006
The Kyoto Protocol’s costs are coming as a shock to many German businesses and consumers. They’re finding higher utility costs resulting from their government’s implementation of the climate change treaty, The Wall Street Journal reported on…