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January 22, 2009
It might be time to bail out the bailouts. That’s what New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Jan. 22.
Co-host Diane Sawyer asked Sorkin about the inauguration day stock market plunge and then its Jan…
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September 1, 2010
With any luck, we’re going to be seeing a lot more commentary like Jim Garrison’s Aug. 31 Huffington Post piece. What’s positive about it isn’t the apocalyptic hysteria of his descriptions of “climate shock,” entertaining as they are. Rather, it’s…
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December 4, 2008
Is it immature to say, “We told you so?”
The Business & Media Institute on Nov. 6 noted the media’s tendency to grant incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a free pass on his…
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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 3, 2008
As a group, broadcast network journalists are incredibly adaptable. When their grim prophecies refuse to fulfill themselves, they persevere and find the clouds in the silver linings.
In the…
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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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November 25, 2008
Perhaps in the wake of the election, all the nation’s free market economists took a page from Hollywood liberals’ book and left the country because they didn’t like the results. That would explain why the network news…
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November 21, 2008
Common sense dictates that executives shouldn’t fly on private jets to plead for taxpayer money in Washington. Journalistic sense dictates that reporters should report the facts, rather than engaging in populist muckraking.…
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November 20, 2008
Apparently unsatisfied with NBC’s current “Green Week” programming (150 hours between Nov. 16 – 22), Hollywood has been working on getting more climate change agitprop on the air.
According to a Nov…
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