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Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When Its Rising
Noel Sheppard | June 16, 2006
Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When Its Rising Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed…
Tax Cuts Once Again Favor the Wealthy
Noel Sheppard | May 17, 2006
Tax Cuts Once Again Favor the Wealthy Networks fixate on tax cuts for the rich while ignoring exploding tax revenues. By…
Best economic growth in 2 years overshadowed in the media by rising gas prices, singing in Spanish and Limbaughs legal settlement.
Noel Sheppard | May 3, 2006
     None of this should come as a surprise. Its actually a trend the Business…
Ironic Media Position Follows Bushs Declaration of Oil Addiction
Noel Sheppard | February 8, 2006
     ABCs Good Morning America asked two different guests if this plan was just a pipe dream. Meanwhile, The Washington Post suggested that this could have come straight from the mouth of Jimmy Carter…
Medias GDP Reports Grossly Unproductive
Noel Sheppard | January 31, 2006
     It turns out that media coverage of the nations economic growth can vary a lot depending on how strong or weak the economy is doing. Strong numbers are downplayed or undermined and weak numbers like…
CNN Spends 2005 Telling People Theyre Going Backwards
Noel Sheppard | January 20, 2006
     In many respects, 2005 was the strongest economic year the United States has experienced since 1999. The Gross Domestic Product continued its uninterrupted string of consecutive 3-percent or…
Media Mantra: Unhappy Holidays
Noel Sheppard | January 4, 2006
     This pessimism continued right through Christmas day, even when the news began to come out that sales through December 24 were quite respectable. As Reuters reported on December 26: U.S.…
Networks Flip Flop on Jobs: Executive Summary
Julia A. Seymour | October 1, 2009
See Full Report Unemployment under President Barack Obama is at a 26-year-high. The last time the economy had 9.7 percent or higher unemployment was under President Ronald Reagan. But despite similar periods of rising unemployment, Obama and…
Media Myth: Networks Ignore Trillion-Dollar Price Tag of Climate Cap Bill
Julia A. Seymour | May 28, 2009
The media love to fret over global warming, but now that a trillion-dollar scheme to address global warming could be just around the corner the networks have been curiously quiet. On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill to…
Media Myth: Networks Stick to Warming Theme Despite Avalanche of Chilling News
Julia A. Seymour | March 4, 2009
Temperatures have plummeted to record or near-record lows in 32 states this winter. On March 2, a global warming protest in Washington, D.C. was buried by nearly a foot of snow. And a new study warns that the Earth could be in for a 30-year cooling…