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January 8, 2010
As global warming alarmists get more desperate, they’re turning to allies in the mainstream media to help promote increasingly strident protests that the world really is warming.
Nobody is happier to oblige than ABC News. On Jan. 8, “World News”…
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November 11, 2008
Just as the government was boosting its assistance to troubled insurance giant AIG, one of the networks ran another story criticizing an executive boondoggle that wasn’t an executive boondoggle.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” Nov. 11,…
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November 4, 2008
This presidential campaign season, the candidates threw around proposed tax plans with huge numbers attached. Here’s another big number: four. A reporter at a broadcast network or a major American newspaper is four times more likely to turn to…
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October 31, 2008
Better late than never. On Oct. 30, the day after Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s half-hour prime time infomercial, CBS “Evening News” took a skeptical look at the candidate’s fiscal proposals.
“By the end of his…
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July 21, 2009
Any article seeking to gin up support for universal health care would have to rely on skewed numbers and sins of omission. Sure enough, “Health Care Proposal is Not Yet Final” by Philip Elliott of the Associated Press fit the bill.
In the article…
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June 18, 2009
ABC News is giving away free advertising! Or Sam Champion is, anyway. On the June 18 edition of “Good Morning America” the weatherman-when-he’s-not-busy-saving-the-planet did his best to help DVD sales of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth,” and then…
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June 18, 2009
ABC has assured Republicans and the public that its June 24 primetime special from the White House on health care reform won’t be an “infomercial” for the president’s proposals. But the involvement of an unabashed champion of universal health care…
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June 2, 2009
The world is about to end, or at least that’s according to ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The June 2 segment promoted a new special called “Earth 2100.” The program follows Lucy, a girl born in 2009, and her dramatic story about how if we don’t take…
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January 26, 2009
The old adage goes, “There are two sides to every issue.” It’s true, unless you report for The Washington Post. In a Jan. 26 story, Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson wrote that President Barack Obama was planning to reverse two Bush administration…
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January 26, 2009
Ever since Chuck Berry pleaded with “Maybellene,” car songs have been a staple of rock n’roll. But can this venerable tradition survive an eco-update? Rocker Neil Young is about to put it to the test with an entire album of songs about electric cars…