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March 8, 2007
All three network evening news shows used extreme examples about “abusive” credit card company practices on March 7, but only one even suggested cardholders should make responsible choices.
ABC…
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December 17, 2008
CNN’s Carol Costello and John Roberts had a lump of coal for credit card companies on “American Morning” Dec. 17.
Costello complained about the companies’ use of “warm and fuzzy” holiday advertisements in an attempt to persuade more people to…
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December 8, 2008
“Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys,” declare the commercials for TNT’s new drama “Leverage,” starring Timothy Hutton. That’s the morally ambiguous theme of the show, which features a group of hitherto loner…
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December 4, 2008
Is it immature to say, “We told you so?”
The Business & Media Institute on Nov. 6 noted the media’s tendency to grant incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a free pass on his…
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December 3, 2008
“A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you’re talking about real money.”
That’s New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman’s philosophy about government…
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December 3, 2008
As a group, broadcast network journalists are incredibly adaptable. When their grim prophecies refuse to fulfill themselves, they persevere and find the clouds in the silver linings.
In the…
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December 1, 2008
It’s 2008. More than 80 percent of Americans have cell phones; many others have video game consoles, and the iPod is seemingly ubiquitous.
Yet the news media insist that America is embroiled…
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November 25, 2008
Perhaps in the wake of the election, all the nation’s free market economists took a page from Hollywood liberals’ book and left the country because they didn’t like the results. That would explain why the network news…
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November 21, 2008
Common sense dictates that executives shouldn’t fly on private jets to plead for taxpayer money in Washington. Journalistic sense dictates that reporters should report the facts, rather than engaging in populist muckraking.…
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November 20, 2008
‘Tis the season for global warming alarmism on NBC. It is “green” week after all.
Just like last year, “Today” hosts have ironically traveled to the “Ends of the Earth,” spewing carbon…