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March 31, 2010
Throughout General Electric’s holding off NBC Universal, GE was criticized for using its media arm to promote its own interests through the political process. However, now that Comcast is entering the final stages of merging with NBC Universal, what…
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October 29, 2008
This could be worse than mixing metaphors. If Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is going to ad lib in a speech about the economy by invoking black 1970s breakthrough TV, he could at least get it right.…
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October 30, 2008
On Oct. 29, the Federal Reserve cut the Fed funds rate target to 1 percent – a level not seen since 2003 – in an effort to make lending flow more freely. But “CBS Evening News” went a different direction with its coverage of…
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April 6, 2010
It’s a simple law of economics, right? If there’s a demand for a certain service or good, that business has a strong shot at thriving. Since the now-defunct Air America shut down for the last time earlier this year, the casual observer must…
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March 29, 2010
With March unemployment data to be released April 2, some are anticipating what potentially lower jobless numbers will all mean for the financial markets and the economy as a whole. However, that data will come with the caveat that it will be…
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October 29, 2008
Over the past year and a half, CBS business correspondent Anthony Mason has filed downbeat report after downbeat report for “CBS Evening News” – so negative that at in January 2008 anchor Katie Couric labeled him the “grim…
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October 28, 2008
The media onslaught against Wall Street continued Oct. 27 in a NBC “Nightly News” segment slamming executive compensation and calling for more regulation of the financial sector.
CNBC…
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October 27, 2008
Although you might think otherwise given the wall-to-wall coverage of financial crisis in the midst of a presidential election, most people will probably be alright.
CNN business correspondent…
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October 28, 2008
The Obama
campaign has decided to employ the shoot-the-messenger approach in response to
comments he made about claims his positions are socialist. The quotes come from
a 2001 Chicago Public
Radio interview where Democratic…
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October 23, 2008
Prostitution may be the world’s oldest profession, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can “boost” a city’s economic growth.
CNN “American Morning” legal analyst Sunny Hostin on Oct. 23…