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May 26, 2006
NBC Pumps Up Housing
Bubble with Extreme Example
Network spotlights problems of couple
paying $2,000 a month for a $129,000 house and…
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February 14, 2006
The New York Times has long made a habit of airing its disdain for
big cuts in domestic spending and soaring profits at major oil
companies. However, Edmund Andrews chose to reinvent the wheel by…
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August 22, 2005
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CNN promotes “Lou Dobbs Tonight” as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t explain that Dobbs defines those words his own unique way. “News” is often economic distortions presented as fact. “Debate” doesn’t always mean…
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August 22, 2005
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Critics have complained that CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” is a seamless rant against big business and free trade. The network in turn has promoted a premier news and business program as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t…
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August 16, 2006
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Al Gore has experienced a surge in media coverage this summer generated mostly by the release of his new film and book on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Even with the extensive media coverage – more than one network story…
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August 16, 2006
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In the heat of the summer the media talked up a storm about global warming. And the most celebrated “expert” on the topic was a man who received a degree in government, dropped out of two graduate programs (law and divinity)…
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October 1, 2009
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Unemployment under President Barack Obama is at a 26-year-high. The last time the economy had 9.7 percent or higher unemployment was under President Ronald Reagan. But despite similar periods of rising unemployment, Obama and…
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May 28, 2009
The media love to fret over global warming, but now that a trillion-dollar scheme to address global warming could be just around the corner the networks have been curiously quiet.
On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a bill to…
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March 4, 2009
Temperatures have plummeted to record or near-record lows in 32 states this winter. On March 2, a global warming protest in Washington, D.C. was buried by nearly a foot of snow. And a new study warns that the Earth could be in for a 30-year cooling…
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May 23, 2011
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Read the Sidebar: Live Earth: NBC Joins the Fight for 'Climate in Crisis,' Fails to Stay Objective
Baaaa-dum. It only took two musical notes to set the mood and terrify viewers watching the movie "Jaws" in 1975.…