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July 7, 2011
Pick up a copy of Newsweek, The New York Times or turn on any of the three broadcast networks and it isn't difficult to see how biased U.S. media outlets are on climate issues.But, according to some in academia and the U.S. and European news…
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June 10, 2011
Even liberals are starting to notice that the economic "recovery" President Obama and the media claimed was happening, isn't. So perhaps it's no surprise that Henry Blodget and economics editor Dan Gross of Yahoo! Finance tried to find a way to…
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May 23, 2011
Al Gore's "Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis," were his attempt to reach the entire globe with his alarmist message. Rather than merely report on the concerts, NBC went to great lengths to promote them and threw away any pretense of…
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April 25, 2011
The average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $3.86 on April 25, more than $1-a-gallon higher than a year earlier and less than 25 cents away from the record high price of gasoline set in July 2008.
In fact, per gallon prices are more…
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April 19, 2011
Main Findings:
- Gas prices have risen almost $1-a-gallon since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, yet President Obama's drilling moratorium and other anti-oil policies have barely been mentioned by the networks in that time span.
- Only 1 percent (…
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March 23, 2011
In February 2011, Chevron lost a legal battle in an Ecuadorian court, but for years it had lost the battle for media fairness regarding the case.
CBS's "60 Minutes," The New York Times and other mainstream media outlets had already sided against…
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March 7, 2011
The unemployment rate finally dropped below 9 percent in February 2011, after 21 months at that rate or higher. The Labor Department reported March 4 that the rate had dropped 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent. The New York Times called it a "notable"…
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February 10, 2011
-The coal industry not only gets attacked by the media for being a "dirty" fossil fuel, it rarely gets positive coverage because the networks focus on disasters. Since Jan. 1, 2010, nearly 80 percent of the broadcast network stories about coal…
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February 4, 2011
Jobs are heading up and down at the same time. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the morning of Feb. 4 that only 36,000 jobs were added in the month of January, but the unemployment rate dropped from 9.4 percent to 9.0 percent.
The…
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February 2, 2011
Feb. 6, 2011 will be the 100th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's birth. The Business & Media Institute seeks to remember his legacy with this video.