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September 2, 2008
Sex sells, even during a presidential election. But that doesn’t mean journalists have to be happy about it.
CNBC’s “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernan took a moment during a panel discussion September 2 to take a shot at the onslaught of…
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August 25, 2008
An opponent of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s health care proposal is a “bad person” in Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s book, even if that opponent is Sen. Hillary Clinton.
“Hillary has fought for universal health-…
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August 7, 2008
How do you make the foreclosure crisis seem even scarier? Add in a potentially deadly virus.
CBS’s “The Early Show,” reported August 7 that a new stronger strain of the West Nile virus could spread across the country with help from the…
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July 25, 2008
“[Europe] wants to see an [American] president committed to free trade,” cautioned CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour from Berlin, Germany, the site of a speech by presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
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May 2, 2008
Weathermen can be wrong, and so can economic forecasts.
The Labor Department reported May 2 that there were 20,000 jobs lost in April and the national unemployment rate fell to 5 percent from 5.1 percent the month before. But before Labor…
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May 1, 2008
They may not have food to put on their tables, but at least Cuban citizens can text message about it now.
CBS’s “Early Show” gave a fairly glowing report from the May Day celebration in Havana, Cuba, May 1, on changes Cuban President…
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March 21, 2008
For its March 2008 issue, the business magazine Portfolio hit hard at 10 major companies “in a variety of industries, not just the traditional smokestack polluters,” complete with skulls and cross bones and exaggerated graphics of pollution, in…
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July 21, 2009
Any article seeking to gin up support for universal health care would have to rely on skewed numbers and sins of omission. Sure enough, “Health Care Proposal is Not Yet Final” by Philip Elliott of the Associated Press fit the bill.
In the article…
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June 18, 2009
ABC News is giving away free advertising! Or Sam Champion is, anyway. On the June 18 edition of “Good Morning America” the weatherman-when-he’s-not-busy-saving-the-planet did his best to help DVD sales of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” and then…
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June 18, 2009
ABC has assured Republicans and the public that its June 24 primetime special from the White House on health care reform won’t be an “infomercial” for the president’s proposals. But the involvement of an unabashed champion of universal health care…