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July 28, 2006
It’s not every day a politician calls for a 100-percent tax rate on national TV. Even the most liberal-friendly of journalists would be inclined to question such a punitive idea. But when former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich called for…
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July 18, 2006
Greedy drug companies are making a killing off the medicine cabinets of the poor, complained New York Times correspondent Milt Freudenheim in his July 18 article “A Windfall from Shifts to Medicare.”
Yet while the Times reporter reminded…
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July 17, 2006
The Washington Post has produced evidence that journalists influence the way the public views the economy.
The paper sponsored “a survey-based experiment” of “more than 2,500 online respondents” who were “shown a brief news clip before…
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July 13, 2006
CNN business contributor Andy Serwer reported on a curious policy change at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) stores: they’re giving first-time shoplifters a break for inexpensive merchandise. The story was not meant to be publicly announced and could cause…
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July 11, 2006
“Gas prices are through the roof, why are you still driving?”
That might as well have been the cry from “World News Tonight” substitute anchor Kate Snow as she opened the July 10 broadcast.
The answer would be: They’re just not as…
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June 30, 2006
The U.S. economy didn’t grow as strongly as the government first thought this winter. It did far better.
But of the three broadcast evening news programs on June 29, only the CBS “Evening News” picked up on the story. And CBS soured it…
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June 23, 2006
“The Earth is running its highest fever in years,” teased NBC’s Brian Williams as he introduced the June 22 “Nightly News.”
CBS’s Bob Schieffer one-upped his younger rival with an even more alarming tease opening the “Evening News.” “The…
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June 19, 2006
CNN gave viewers a sort of Saturday morning fever as CNN’s Andy Serwer raised fears of stagflation sapping the economy’s strength on the June 17 “In the Money.” “Stagflation” is a term coined in the 1970s to refer to high inflation coupled with…
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June 13, 2006
Perhaps not since “Gigli” has a movie so highly anticipated by the media done so little at the box office. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been and still is being strongly promoted in the media, but as with the ill-fated Lopez-…
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February 19, 2007
A new study by the Autism Genome Project (AGP) chalks up the disease’s primary cause to genetics, not environmental pollution, ABC’s Bill Blakemore reported on the February 18 “World News.” But in 2005, media outlets including ABC showcased an…
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