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October 31, 2005
According to Lou Dobbs Tonight, America is a nation in trouble, and the blame can be placed squarely on the shoulders of policy makers.
CNNs Christine Romans began her October 28 report: Lou, while…
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October 21, 2005
It seems to come earlier and earlier every year, doesnt it? No, not
Christmas ads on TV, but the annual media festival of gloom and doom
surrounding holiday-related retail sales.
This…
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August 31, 2005
The U.S.
Census Bureau released poverty figures for 2004 on August 30, and if
you were to take the mainstream media reports on the subject at face
value, you would have to conclude that things…
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December 18, 2006
College costs are on congressional Democrats’ “first 100 hours” agenda for their legislative control, starting in January. And on December 16, CNN’s “In the Money” hyped the issue in advance.
The segment was nothing but a blame game.…
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December 11, 2006
I generate enough revenue to grant 5 million individuals access to appropriate health care. I provide every child in Botswana with education to age 13. I am essential to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. I generate more than 40 percent of…
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November 21, 2006
“So are we OK or in the early stages of a housing-led crash that might depress us all?”
That was the leading question of PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman on the November 17 “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
The segment on the “…
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October 13, 2006
“Support Environmentalists With a Rope.”
On the October 11 “Moyers on America” show, titled “Is God Green?” Rocky Barker used these five words to sum up Republican sentiment towards environmentalists. Barker, environmental reporter for…
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April 23, 2007
Would-be president Dennis Kucinich voiced “concern” over possible “$4 a gallon” summer gas prices and directed blame toward oil companies on CNN’s “In the Money.”
Hosts Ali Velshi and Christine Romans lobbed softball questions at the…
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April 16, 2007
Guilty until proven innocent – that was the verdict for the student loan industry on CNN’s “In the Money.”
The show’s anchors turned a story on investigation of college financial aid offices into a diatribe on corporate scandal and an…
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March 5, 2007
“What goes up must come down. But how will we know when the housing market has hit rock bottom?” Allen Wastler started off “In The Money’s” gloomy housing story with a dose of doom and it only went downhill from there. The March 3 show found…