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October 12, 2015
Editor's note: This post contains spoilers from the Oct. 11, episode of Blood and Oil.
It was obvious from the start of ABC’s new drama, Blood & Oil, that Hap Briggs (the “Baron of the Bakken”) would turn out to be…
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October 21, 2015
Mandates are a predictable liberal solution for problems both real and percieved. The Huffington Post proved it again when it argued for a federal mandate for paid sick leave, claiming a new study offered a “compelling” reason for the…
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October 28, 2015
After an international agency made an announcement about risk of eating processed meats, many media outlets went hog wild. That included the broadcast networks which hyped the “troubling new warning” and ordered people to “cut down…
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October 28, 2015
UPDATE: USA Today's Standards & Recruitment Editor Brent Jones responded to a request by MRC Business VP Dan Gainor regarding the offensive tweets. Here is Jones' response:
Dan,
Thanks for reaching out to us. Bill Mann is a well-…
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July 29, 2015
Fear often trumps facts in media coverage. The past several years of worries about dying colonies of bees was certainly no exception, but The Washington Post recently supplied some much-needed sting to the honeybee situation.
News media scare…
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December 26, 2006
No good deed goes unpunished -- that was the theme of an ABC Christmas day segment about donating clothing to charity.
“World News Tonight with Charles Gibson,” took “A Closer Look” at charities and gave the appearance of dishonesty.…
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December 21, 2006
“Rising” child care cost was the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” whine during the December 20 “War on the Middle Class” segment.
Reporter Lisa Sylvester heralded the need for government intervention because of rising day care costs, saying, “Policy…
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December 20, 2006
“Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know much about science book. Don’t know much about the French I took.”
That Sam Cooke song expresses what many experts sense about American students. To fix the problem, one…
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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…