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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryReporters consider most risky products newsworthy, but tobacco gets
far more coverage than any other risky product, including such illegal
drugs as cocaine and marijuana. This is one conclusion of a special
year-long, two-part study…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryWhat kind of messages about business and the American workplace does
prime time tele-vision send to viewers? To find out, the Free Market
Project of the Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed 17 weeks of prime
time fare over 26 months…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryAccording to the National Council on Economic Education, 79 percent
of Americans get their information about the economy from television.
When the network news shows fail to provide context in economic stories
or simply leave basic…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryPolls from groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Citizens for a Sound
Economy show that most climate scientists are skeptical of claims that
the climate change of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse
gas emissions. This is…
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May 31, 2012
Executive SummaryA recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, reported in the April 9 Wall Street Journal,
asked Americans which they would prefer: a candidate who advocates
cutting taxes, or a candidate who favors more spending on education…
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December 10, 2020
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) wants in the club, the Black Lives Matter-style protest club, along with the cool people – the NBA, WNBA, NFL and Major League Baseball. If the International Olympic Committee agrees, American…
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September 18, 2019
While beefing about Major League Soccer (MLS) banning the anti-fascist Iron Front banner at its games, retired NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in a UK Guardian rant that curtailing the free speech of athletes or fans is not consistent with our…
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November 6, 2008
The pundits are already at it, saying that conservatism is dead.
But Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected in large part because they managed, in the face of all evidence, to run to the right of McCain-Palin.
Obama-Biden pretended they weren…
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June 11, 2008
Usually, when a journalist is censored in a Western nation, American news organizations respond with collective outrage.
But as a major attack on press freedom unfolds in Canada, America's mainstream media are silent. Neither the TV networks nor…
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May 16, 2008
The TV news networks and other major media followed the typical gay script in reporting the California Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling Thursday striking down the voter-approved marriage law and presumably creating “gay marriage” in the Golden State.
ABC…