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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…
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November 21, 2006
Journalists worked themselves into a fright this spring as inflation rose, scaremongering with cries of “stagflation” and “recession.” But when the news came last week that the inflation “monster” wasn’t “rearing its ugly head,” the media could…
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October 30, 2006
The latest “In the Money” was just another skirmish in CNN’s pre-election war on the U.S. economy – supplying an almost exclusively negative take on economic, health care, wages and education issues.
Firing the first shot, host Jack…
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October 19, 2006
Lou Dobbs’s hour-long special “War on the Middle Class” should have been titled “Vote for Bigger Government This Election Year.”
With barely an attempt at journalistic objectivity, against the backdrop "America Votes 2006," the October 18…
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October 10, 2006
It took the Department of Labor several months to locate 810,000 new jobs it had overlooked – but network news still hasn’t found them, despite the agency’s report on October 6.
The employment report was full of positive news:…
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September 28, 2006
The Dow Jones industrial average closed only 34 points away from its record high September 27, yet “NBC Nightly News” found a cloud to hide that silver lining.
“Wall Street is riding high on a wave of confidence about the economy,” said…
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October 17, 2007
This week marks the unhappy milestone of Black Monday for Wall Street, which had some journalists warning “it could” happen again. Even if it doesn’t, the media hammered home the prospect of a possible recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial…
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October 16, 2007
“You know, Ron Reagan’s fiscal record was not so great…” claimed Karen Tumulty, national political correspondent for Time magazine. Tumulty was a guest on CNN’s ‘Your $$$$$’ October 13, providing political analysis on the economic policy…
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September 5, 2007
The AFL-CIO reports that only 12 percent of the work force belonged to unions last year and the hosts of “Your $$$$$” are not happy.
Hosts Ali Velshi and Christine Romans told viewers why labor unions are good -- and business was not --…
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May 8, 2007
Both CBS “Evening News” and ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” reported that the national average price for gasoline was “just two cents short of the record.”
But the networks’ two cents were wrong.
Gasoline prices, which both…
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