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February 14, 2006
The New York Times has long made a habit of airing its disdain for
big cuts in domestic spending and soaring profits at major oil
companies. However, Edmund Andrews chose to reinvent the wheel by…
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August 22, 2005
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CNN promotes “Lou Dobbs Tonight” as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t explain that Dobbs defines those words his own unique way. “News” is often economic distortions presented as fact. “Debate” doesn’t always mean…
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August 22, 2005
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Critics have complained that CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” is a seamless rant against big business and free trade. The network in turn has promoted a premier news and business program as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t…
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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 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 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…