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March 28, 2007
Media coverage of housing is booming again. This time, it’s the Shocked and Victimized Homebuyers versus the Big Bad Loan Companies.
As the subprime lending “crisis” has gone primetime, the…
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March 19, 2007
The student loan business might be taking advantage of college students, according to ABC “World News,” but viewers will just have to trust the network about the particulars.
Anchor Dan Harris…
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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 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 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 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…
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May 19, 2010
Since Obama took office, there’s been a leftward swing toward increased regulation. The news media have supported that tilt, generally failing to demand explanations for high profile failures of government regulators.From the financial crisis to the…