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March 29, 2010
29 March 2010
Editor, The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman writes that "we used to have a workable system for avoiding financial crises, resting on a combination of government guarantees and…
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March 2, 2010
News Editor, WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir or Madam:
Interviewed this morning by Bruce Alan and Mike Moss, economist Robert Shapiro explained that the "swipe fees" that credit-card issuers charge merchants each time merchants' customers pay…
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January 14, 2010
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Regarding "Tens of thousands feared dead" (Jan. 14): The ultimate tragedy in Haiti isn't the earthquake; it's that country's lack of economic freedom. The earthquake…
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January 14, 2010
13 January 2010
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Helen Ashworth writes that "Our current economic crisis is worse than the Great Depression" (Letters, Jan. 13). She's wrong. By no measure - rate of unemployment; decline in GDP; length of the…
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March 19, 2008
The media are awash with historical flashbacks. Is this the worst economy since the Great Depression? Or is it a repeat of ’70s-era financial woes? For the most part, the comparisons have been less than accurate. But there’s one the media have…
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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…