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August 26, 2010
Billy Mays would be proud.
On August 26, Time magazine’s website’s lead with a story titled “How the Stimulus is Changing America,” a 27 paragraph infomercial arguing the stimulus’s goal is a “long-term push to change the country” and the “…
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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 14, 2010
As the media keep Goldman Sachs and Wall Street in their blame crosshairs for the financial crisis, government-sponsored entities (GSE’s) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have quietly snuck by without much criticism.
While a June 14 Bloomberg.com…
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June 10, 2010
Is the anti-business sentiment so strong in the media that journalists can’t imagine why Americans would want a former CEO in political office?In an appearance on “Good Morning America” June 10, former cable news host Catherine Crier expressed…
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June 3, 2010
The old saying used to go ‘you are what you eat,’ but now the media wants that saying to be ‘you are what you see.’
News outlets from Time to Business Week picked up on a study released June 1 by the Journal of American Dietetic Association (…
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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 1, 2010
In The New York Times’ view, industries should surrender to government demands no matter what it would do to their bottom line.
On May 29, the Times wrote a long article called “The Hard Sell on Salt,” that unsympathetically outlined the steps taken…
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May 28, 2010
Despite the fact that both The New York Times and NBC Nightly News have Facebook pages, they don’t appear to be friends of the social networking juggernaut.
On May 26, the media reported on Facebook’s announcement that it is making its privacy…
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May 26, 2010
If network bias was measured in calories, then NBC Nightly News would be a double bacon cheeseburger.
On May 25, both NBC and CBS’s evening news broadcasts ran stories about a “study” by the left-leaning Center for Science in the Public…
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May 24, 2010
Apparently, having Goldman Sachs connections is only a problem if you’re a Republican.While on May 20, The Los Angeles Times gleefully reported that Meg Whitman dropped in the polls for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, they…