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June 29, 2004
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese
Americans could correlate closely…
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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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January 22, 2004
Two studies, one suggesting
that 30 percent of US children surveyed reported eating fast food on
at least one of the two days they were studied, the other claiming
that our teenagers believe they are the…
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January 20, 2004
Claims that global warming will cause
mass extinction by 2050 were received with uniformly sympathetic
coverage by media outlets. Newspapers in Britain, Canada and the
United States featured stories…
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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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November 10, 2005
CBS wasnt alone. Headlines like The Dollars Decline Does Matter,
Consumers Could Get Caught Under Falling Dollar, and The
Dangerous Dollar were all the rage as Americas currency was…
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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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