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March 9, 2007
Despite previous complaints about “outrageous” CEO pay, both NBC and ABC proclaimed “good news” about the increasing number of female billionaires on March 8.
According to Forbes magazine, there are 946 billionaires in the world,…
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March 7, 2007
Typically, green represents the deadly sin of envy, but with the media’s help it now also stands for hypocrisy.
In this case, the hypocrisy is media promotion of buying carbon offsets – giving a donation to an energy-saving project as…
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March 1, 2007
Home is where the heart is – which may explain why television journalists used a decrease in home sales to bolster negative economic reports on February 28.
Both NBC “Nightly News” and CBS “Evening News” cited the “biggest drop in 13…
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February 27, 2007
If you ordered a “Colossal Burger,” pizza skins, fried mozzarella, or a pasta dish laden with a cream sauce and Wisconsin cheese, wouldn’t you know the food will be high in calories and fat?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (…
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February 26, 2007
In a segment only fit to satisfy a regulator’s hunger pangs, CNN’s “American Morning” fed viewers one left-wing group’s most recent attack on casual dining restaurants.
“When you go to a restaurant you better be watching what you’re…
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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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