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September 28, 2010
The mainstream media is always hungry for a story about how the duplicity and greed of big bad corporations harms innocent consumers. Throw children into the mix and just try to stop a network anchor from breathlessly relaying the whole, sordid…
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September 28, 2010
It’s not quite “earth shaking,” but we can be sure it caused a tremor at the National Education Association office in downtown D.C.
On Sept.27, President Obama admitted on NBC’s “Today” show that Washington, D.C.’s “struggling” public schools…
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July 19, 2010
Radio host and businessman Herman Cain could be a “dark horse” 2012 GOP presidential candidate, according to Politics Daily’s Matt Lewis. Cain is also CEO and president of The New Voice, Inc. and national chairman of the Media Research Center’s…
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December 8, 2008
The media love to assign blame for financial hardship, but it’s rare that they turn the microscope on themselves like columnist David Carr did in The New York Times Dec. 8.
In a front page column of the Business Day section, Carr noted…
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November 21, 2008
If you watch television, you’ve almost certainly heard of the damage your “carbon footprint” supposedly does to the environment. NBC’s “Today” show took the metaphor a step further Nov. 21 by warning viewers about their “water footprint…
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November 6, 2008
If at first you don’t succeed in convincing viewers global warming is a problem, try, try again. That must be the NBC “Today” show’s motto.
The morning show crew announced Nov. 6 it will air the second annual “Ends of the Earth” feature…
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November 4, 2008
The last week before the 2008 Presidential Election gave the broadcast networks one more opportunity to give viewers real information on the candidates’ economic proposals, but instead they obsessed over polls and horse race coverage by nearly…
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October 23, 2008
The U.S. media have hesitated to connect government mandates for biofuels to higher food prices, but one British financial publication’s two-part series finally shed some light on the ethanol ‘bubble.”
The first report in the Financial…
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October 1, 2008
Academic economists sit alone in their ivory towers, insulated from the world around them and oblivious to reality – at least according to CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer.
“One-hundred-and-sixty-six academic economists signed a letter…
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September 30, 2008
In their continuing effort to cast the economy as “Wall Street versus Main Street,” many in the media have criticized the proposed $700 billion bailout of financial institutions as rewarding “fat cats” who made bad investments.
But CNBC…
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