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December 8, 2006
The election has come and gone, but CNN’s Lou Dobbs continued pushing Democratic Party talking points in his latest “War on the Middle Class” special December 7.
The House Democrats Web site states, “We will make health care more…
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November 29, 2006
The FDA has put silicone breast implants back on the market. But journalists, who hyped the implants’ dangers more than a decade ago, have shown they’re not convinced.
“Given the history of this product, I think a lot of people are going…
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November 21, 2006
Journalists worked themselves into a fright this spring as inflation rose, scaremongering with cries of “stagflation” and “recession.” But when the news came last week that the inflation “monster” wasn’t “rearing its ugly head,” the media could…
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October 30, 2006
The latest “In the Money” was just another skirmish in CNN’s pre-election war on the U.S. economy – supplying an almost exclusively negative take on economic, health care, wages and education issues.
Firing the first shot, host Jack…
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October 19, 2006
Lou Dobbs’s hour-long special “War on the Middle Class” should have been titled “Vote for Bigger Government This Election Year.”
With barely an attempt at journalistic objectivity, against the backdrop "America Votes 2006," the October 18…
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October 10, 2006
It took the Department of Labor several months to locate 810,000 new jobs it had overlooked – but network news still hasn’t found them, despite the agency’s report on October 6.
The employment report was full of positive news:…
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September 28, 2006
The Dow Jones industrial average closed only 34 points away from its record high September 27, yet “NBC Nightly News” found a cloud to hide that silver lining.
“Wall Street is riding high on a wave of confidence about the economy,” said…
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November 30, 2007
Sometimes business gives an inch and interest groups want a mile.
National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” gave a report November 30 on misleading “green” products, charging companies with “The Six Sins of Greenwashing.”
“You…
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November 26, 2007
Thanksgiving air travel went well; in fact it went so well it prompted CNN anchor Rob Marciano to exclaim, “Maybe the media sufficiently scared everybody.”
CNN’s “American Morning” and NBC’s “Nightly News” reported the good news on…
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November 14, 2007
National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” was one of few outlets to report that the cost of $100 oil hasn’t had the effect on the economy that many people expected, “at least not yet,” cautioned host Steve Inskeep November 12.
In the…