|
October 28, 2015
UPDATE: USA Today's Standards & Recruitment Editor Brent Jones responded to a request by MRC Business VP Dan Gainor regarding the offensive tweets. Here is Jones' response:
Dan,
Thanks for reaching out to us. Bill Mann is a well-…
|
July 29, 2015
Fear often trumps facts in media coverage. The past several years of worries about dying colonies of bees was certainly no exception, but The Washington Post recently supplied some much-needed sting to the honeybee situation.
News media scare…
|
December 26, 2006
No good deed goes unpunished -- that was the theme of an ABC Christmas day segment about donating clothing to charity.
“World News Tonight with Charles Gibson,” took “A Closer Look” at charities and gave the appearance of dishonesty.…
|
December 21, 2006
“Rising” child care cost was the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” whine during the December 20 “War on the Middle Class” segment.
Reporter Lisa Sylvester heralded the need for government intervention because of rising day care costs, saying, “Policy…
|
December 20, 2006
“Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know much about science book. Don’t know much about the French I took.”
That Sam Cooke song expresses what many experts sense about American students. To fix the problem, one…
|
December 8, 2006
The election has come and gone, but CNN’s Lou Dobbs continued pushing Democratic Party talking points in his latest “War on the Middle Class” special December 7.
The House Democrats Web site states, “We will make health care more…
|
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…
|
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…
|
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…
|
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…