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December 20, 2006
When Santa came to Wall Street this year, the media cried and pouted.
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average at an all-time high and commodities markets experiencing one of…
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September 6, 2006
As images of hurricane victims filled the nation’s TV screens last September, network reporters and contributors painted the war on poverty as “ignored and lost.” But when the poverty rate recently showed an end to its four-…
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June 17, 2006
The three broadcast networks have focused growing attention on inflation recently – 42 stories since early May. CBS anchor Bob Schieffer declared on June 14 “Well, it is back, inflation, that is.” The following day, ABC’s…
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December 12, 2011
Finally, the
discussion about Hurricane Katrinas aftermath has turned to the
Mississippi coast. Since the advent of the storm, devastated
Mississippi communities have received sparse coverage compared to…
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December 12, 2011
If there were a Saffir-Simpson scale for newscasts, CNNs Lou Dobbs
Tonight would have been downgraded long ago from news to rant.
A September 20 report on the Labor Departments suspension of…
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December 12, 2011
For two
weeks since hurricane Katrina made landfall, Americas media have
been presenting startling images of an impoverished New Orleans.
Unfortunately, many journalists have been as inaccurate with their…
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December 12, 2011
As good
neighbors, private charities, and government agencies rushed to aid
the victims of Hurricane Katrina, CNNs Lou Dobbs and Lisa Sylvester
offered their own charitable assistance to labor unions and…
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February 23, 2006
Its turn-back-the-clock day in the mainstream media and on Capitol
Hill. While polyester and Depeche Mode are far from the rage in
Congressional chambers and newsrooms, an overzealous fear of foreign…
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December 21, 2005
Ever
since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August sending oil
prices to $70 per barrel and gasoline above $3 a gallon, the media
have been in a panic over a return of 70s-style inflation. Such…
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December 15, 2005
Lou Dobbs wants answers. In his December 14 broadcast of CNNs Lou
Dobbs Tonight, the business anchor gathered torches and pitchforks
in response to the news of an overall trade deficit [that] hit…