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June 3, 2010
The old saying used to go ‘you are what you eat,’ but now the media wants that saying to be ‘you are what you see.’
News outlets from Time to Business Week picked up on a study released June 1 by the Journal of American Dietetic Association (…
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June 1, 2010
In The New York Times’ view, industries should surrender to government demands no matter what it would do to their bottom line.
On May 29, the Times wrote a long article called “The Hard Sell on Salt,” that unsympathetically outlined the steps taken…
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May 28, 2010
Despite the fact that both The New York Times and NBC Nightly News have Facebook pages, they don’t appear to be friends of the social networking juggernaut.
On May 26, the media reported on Facebook’s announcement that it is making its privacy…
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May 26, 2010
If network bias was measured in calories, then NBC Nightly News would be a double bacon cheeseburger.
On May 25, both NBC and CBS’s evening news broadcasts ran stories about a “study” by the left-leaning Center for Science in the Public…
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May 24, 2010
Apparently, having Goldman Sachs connections is only a problem if you’re a Republican.While on May 20, The Los Angeles Times gleefully reported that Meg Whitman dropped in the polls for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, they…
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May 20, 2010
If celebrities, movies, and former vice presidents can’t sell people on global warming, maybe a cartoon can.At least that’s what The New Yorker was hoping with its May 17 cover showing the “evolution” of global warming. The cartoon is a montage of…
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May 26, 2010
Newsweek’s Michael Hirsh doesn’t want the government to have a hand in financial reform. On the contrary, he’d rather the government have both hands firmly around Wall Street.
In his May 21 Newsweek Web Exclusive, Hirsh was outraged that the “…
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May 19, 2010
The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree and, in the case of the mainstream media, the analysis doesn’t fall far from the network agenda.
On May 17, NBC’s “Today” and CBS’ “Early Show,” along with all three network evening news programs,…
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May 13, 2008
The feature article on The Washington Post’s “Kid's Post” May 13, entitled “The Heat is On,” asked its young readers to consider whether or not polar bears "deserve" protection under the Endangered Species Act. …
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August 24, 2010
The media should hire better “experts.”
An August 23 AP story noted gas prices are falling prior to Labor Day. Despite calling the price drop “unusual,” the AP reported the average price of gas at $2.704, thirty cents below of the $3 average…