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December 17, 2007
The U.S. Congress looks poised to follow Australia and other allies in effectively banning traditional light bulbs. In a front-page story December 17, USA Today reporter Paul Davidson praised the provision of the energy bill…
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December 17, 2007
In her “60 Minutes” interview with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez Sunday, Katie Couric asked the third baseman about steroids in baseball, the home run record he is poised to break eventually, and his own upstaging of…
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December 12, 2007
The Hollywood Goes Green conference featured not only appearances by celebrities the caliber of Ed Begley Jr. and Larry Hagman, but also gave industry members the chance to see ways to lessen their own “carbon footprints,”…
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December 12, 2007
How do you solve the problem that the American public seems uninterested in television shows and movies that preach about global warming and other environmental issues? Hide it from them! That's the…
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December 9, 2009
A number of business owners have let me know of their new annoyance. They’re taking umbrage. The Great and Powerful Ozbama has chosen a new demon: the small business community. Not long ago, the rhetoric was about the need to assist small business.…
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December 3, 2008
The network broadcast media have generally ignored or downplayed the role of unions in establishing bad business models for the Big Three U.S. automakers. But NBC’s “Today” show bucked the trend Dec. 3 with an honest report about how union contracts…
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December 2, 2008
CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer said on NBC’s “Today” show Dec. 2 that comparisons between the current economy and the Great Depression are “scare tactics.” Maybe he forgot about his own reliance on the juxtaposition.…
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November 26, 2008
It looks like journalists are adopting the Chris Matthews philosophy of covering the transition into President-elect Barack Obama’s administration: don’t rock the boat.
Broadcast network news…
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April 4, 2012
The ignorance of the general public was on display during
the April 1 “Meet the Press.” During
that broadcast, a very recent AARP conference call was mentioned, in which the
#1 question voiced by seniors about Obamacare was whether or not it…
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April 7, 2010
Here’s a largely unreported story: Stuffed inside the health care reform bill is a measure summarily throwing private lending institutions out of the college loan business. That business is being taken over by the federal government, with purported…