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July 29, 2009
Since Congressmen do not even read the bills they pass anymore, Barbara Walters asked the question on many Americans’ minds about healthcare “reform”: “What is the bill? Does anyone know?” A valid question, but unfortunately, “The View” turned to a…
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July 21, 2009
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has found that the current plan for healthcare reform will add to the nation’s deficit and drive healthcare costs up, not down. However, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-SC, and disgraced former CBS…
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June 15, 2010
It is hardly news that the American newspaper industry is failing.
At least seven different newspaper chains have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent years, including the Tribune Co. and The Rocky Mountain News, which closed in December…
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June 3, 2010
Foreclosure on one’s home used to be a financially shameful matter. Today, homeowners are riding the foreclosure of financial irresponsibility wave to the bank by staying in foreclosed homes long after they’ve stopped making mortgage payments.…
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June 15, 2009
The media’s obsession with chemicals in children’s products has led to a national health scare over the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). It’s a scare the rest of the world sees as unnecessary and irrelevant, according to a new study by the Statistical…
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June 1, 2009
As GM filed for a long expected bankruptcy under Chapter 11 on June 1, CBS’s “The Early Show” offered a report this morning that failed to acknowledge key facts and opinions regarding the bankruptcy and the role of the federal government and the…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryReporters consider most risky products newsworthy, but tobacco gets
far more coverage than any other risky product, including such illegal
drugs as cocaine and marijuana. This is one conclusion of a special
year-long, two-part study…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryWhat kind of messages about business and the American workplace does
prime time tele-vision send to viewers? To find out, the Free Market
Project of the Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed 17 weeks of prime
time fare over 26 months…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryAccording to the National Council on Economic Education, 79 percent
of Americans get their information about the economy from television.
When the network news shows fail to provide context in economic stories
or simply leave basic…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryPolls from groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Citizens for a Sound
Economy show that most climate scientists are skeptical of claims that
the climate change of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse
gas emissions. This is…