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February 23, 2007
New fuel-economy ratings that will take effect in 2008 will lower miles per gallon estimates for certain hybrid cars by 10 to 20 percent, according to USA Today.
“Toyota’s Prius, best-known and best-selling gas-electric car in the USA,…
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February 22, 2007
“Just $15 a day.”
By using that phrase, CBS “Evening News” spun a February 21 story about “progressive” corporations providing assistance to employees trying to take care of mom and dad.
“Freddie Mac provides emergency elder home…
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February 17, 2007
Cancer.
The word understandably provokes emotional response and ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” was banking on it when they misled viewers in a one-sided story during the February 15 broadcast.
Anchor Charles Gibson introduced…
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February 14, 2007
Cubic zirconia instead of diamonds?
To hear the media tell it, that’s what the amorous should be giving their sweethearts this Valentine’s Day – thanks to a media obsession with “human suffering” highlighted in the Oscar-nominated movie…
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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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