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November 8, 2007
The year was 1979 – the height of the Cold War, and the Three Mile Island nuclear accident had just occurred. The “No Nukes” movement was born.
Back then musicians such as Bonnie Raitt,…
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November 6, 2007
“On Strike; Shut it Down; Hollywood’s a Union town.”
That was one of the many chants of the Hollywood writers on strike – and network news was union-friendly November 5 as reporters took the writers’…
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October 26, 2007
Though Lou Dobbs temporarily lost his ability to speak due to a tonsillectomy through part of August and into October, he did not lose his nightly voice on CNN.
“Lou Dobbs Tonight” continued…
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October 24, 2007
With Halloween a week away, the media must count on everyone loving a good scare.
Morning and evening, day after day, journalists frighten viewers with exaggeration, hyperbole and lack of…
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October 16, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore’s celebration weekend in Tennessee wasn’t all dinner and dancing.
The former vice president managed to find time this past weekend to post a series of videos…
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September 26, 2007
In an attempt to dredge up old fears about beauty products, Marie Claire alarmed readers with an onslaught of one-sided experts and arguments about why you should be more concerned with what you put on your body than what…
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September 12, 2007
Apparently global warming is upsetting the fashion industry, because women’s magazine Marie Claire gave it the cold shoulder in its October issue.
“Here’s to some global cooling so we get a…
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September 4, 2007
Editor’s Note: On May 10, 2007 Business & Media Institute wrote that “World News with Charles Gibson” hypocritically reported on two individuals’ carbon footprints, by presumably flying its crew to San Francisco for the segment. Recently, BMI…
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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…
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May 14, 2009
The day after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner requested more authority from Congress, on “Money for Breakfast” the Fox Business Network explored the possibility that such authority will come to include limiting executive compensation
Host Alexis…