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May 12, 2008
When faced with the tragic consequences of unethical business practices, the media are quick to project the problem on an entire industry, then run to the government for help. NBC’s “Today” show exemplified the approach in a…
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May 12, 2008
As if record-high gas prices weren’t enough, CNN’s “Your $$$$$” speculated about “what if” oil were to spike to $200 a barrel.
“Well, if you think it is bad now, it could get worse and it…
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May 9, 2008
Presenting a writer with no scientific background as an expert on food and nutrition might not seem like a prudent editorial decision for a major network newscast, but ABC’s “Nightline” did it anyway.
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May 8, 2008
Eighty people in a Vermont town will soon be out of a job and residents will have lost access to a wide selection of less expensive hardware. NBC calls that a “great story.”
The Home Depot (…
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April 24, 2008
CNBC reporter Erin Burnett offered a bit of perspective to hyped-up media reports of rice rationing in the United States on the April 24 NBC “Today” show, even blaming ethanol for actual rice shortages around the world.…
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April 25, 2008
CNBC host Jim Cramer has added himself to a short list of broadcast journalists who are willing to connect food inflation to government-mandated use of ethanol, a gasoline additive made with corn.
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April 17, 2008
You might think the networks harping on airlines for weeks over inspection controversies, delayed flights and ticket prices, might feel compelled to at least acknowledge some good news about the industry. But ABC “World News…
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April 10, 2008
As evening and morning news broadcasts showed video of angry air travelers lashing out at American Airlines for canceling thousands of flights, at least one show finally revealed the true culprit: the Federal Aviation…
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April 9, 2008
Since the beginning of 2008, the three broadcast networks have reported on a British Airways crash at London’s Heathrow Airport, pilots falling asleep on a Go! Airlines flight in Hawaii, the in-air death of an American…
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April 2, 2008
It seems that mainstream media reporters have finally started to realize that ethanol isn’t the environmental salvation it was hyped to be.
The cover story of the April 7 issue of Time magazine…
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