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February 7, 2007
As Manhattan enjoyed an unseasonable 72-degree winter day on January 6, news media quickly claimed that the weather inspired fears of “the end of the world.” But as the thermometer dipped into extreme cold, the rhetoric of human-caused global…
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January 31, 2007
When the Terminator outlined his plan for universal health insurance coverage in California on January 9, news media declared the plan “bold,” “ambitious,” “innovative,” “ground-breaking” and a “sweeping remedy.”
“Well there’s definitely…
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January 3, 2007
As the new majority of Democrats takes over the House of Representatives January 4, they have big plans – plans the media have supported.
Journalists have called arguments against a minimum wage hike “a lot of bull” and even came out in…
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October 31, 2008
Time Inc. is facing an advertising ‘depression,’ which might explain its magazine’s recent obsession with the Great Depression and the 1930s.
Time’s Oct. 27 issue – the one with FDR, Abraham Lincoln and the two presidential candidates –…
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October 23, 2008
Perhaps CNN should change its moniker from “the most trusted name in news” to the most envious name in news.
The network stoked the anger and jealousy of ordinary citizens with an outrageous hour-long set-up called “Fall of the Fat Cats…
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October 10, 2008
Reports of capitalism’s death have been greatly exaggerated by the news media.
Take the Washington Post’s front-page “analysis” on Oct. 10 that warned the financial crisis “is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism.” The…
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September 17, 2008
When Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin claimed she defeated the infamous Alaskan “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark, the Democratic nominees and network, cable and print journalists rushed to “fact check” her statement.
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September 9, 2008
Technological glitches can come with a high price tag – as United Airlines found out on September 8.
According to The Washington Post, a six-year-old Chicago Tribune article about the airline’s 2002 bankruptcy was archived without a date…
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September 5, 2008
Readers familiar with Time magazine’s global warming alarmism might have expected the publication to name climate change the culprit being worsening natural disasters. But they’d be wrong.
On September 3, Time.com examined “Why Disasters…
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September 3, 2008
As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., accepted his party’s nomination for president he warned of an American economy in “turmoil.” Throughout convention week the news media helped reinforce Obama’s negative perspective.
During the Democratic…