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August 18, 2010
If a conference concerning one of the greatest housing crises in American history happens and the media don’t report on it, did it really take place?
On August 17, the Treasury Department convened a conference on ‘The Future of Housing Finance.’ Led…
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August 13, 2010
Forget the Xbox or the Wii. When kids get bored, they jet off without telling their parents.
On the August 13 edition of “Good Morning America,” Steve Osunsami reported on three Florida kids who attempted to fly to Dollywood, Tennessee from Florida…
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August 16, 2010
CBS News reporter Leslie Stahl definitely wasn’t born a coal miner’s daughter.
On the August 15 edition of ‘60 Minutes,’ Stahl featured a 13-minute segment about coal ash, a byproduct of coal production, and revisited the infamous December 2008…
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August 9, 2010
If members of Congress are looking for a book to read over their summer break, perhaps they should pick up the children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” It’s the story of how, given a cookie, the mouse will innocently demand more and more…
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August 5, 2010
To have, or not to have. This is the question the media love to hype up.
In August 5 story for ABCNews.com, reporter Rich Blake touted government data indicating a record number of food stamp recipients and a “sharp” increase in the number of…
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August 5, 2010
If news outlets were fueled by bias, then ABC, CBS, and NBC would be Hummers.
Over the past two years, the media have declared Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) “dying” while celebrating the popularity of hybrid cars. Americans disagree. Data from…
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July 29, 2010
The media pompoms are out again.
In his July 28 “Street Sweep” blog, Fortune.com reporter Colin Barr highlighted a paper by Moody’s Analytics claiming government stimulus funds “averted what could have been called Great Depression 2.0.” The paper…
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July 28, 2010
If the newspaper business goes under, The Associated Press might try a second career as a fight promoter.
In a July 27 story following President Obama’s Rose Garden speech, AP released a tiny news brief about Obama’s call to Congress to pass his…
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July 26, 2010
Maybe now would be the perfect time for the former British Petroleum to market itself as BP: Battery Plug-in. The realities of owning and operating the electric cars championed by the Obama administration and the environmental left are difficult…
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July 23, 2010
If you heard taps being played yesterday evening, there’s a good chance it came from Time magazine’s headquarters.
On Time’s Ecocentric blog, author Bryan Walsh joined other media members in bemoaning the “death” of the cap-and-trade bill after…