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December 13, 2006
On the heels of two E. coli outbreaks that are still under investigation, ABC News hyped the risk of food-borne illness and suggested more government regulation could prevent illness and death. But Americans are as likely to…
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December 12, 2006
“Hungry? Watch out, food in America is becoming increasingly suspect,” warned Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly as he introduced his top story for the December 11 “O’Reilly Factor.”
But in the interview segment…
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December 8, 2006
Does free trade kills jobs and drive Americans to the poor house? Or does it enrich Americans’ lives? A professionally-trained journalist such as CNN’s Lou Dobbs should present both sides of the debate, but he’s too busy…
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December 6, 2006
Testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
December 6, 2006
Subject: Global Warming and the Media
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Director, Business & Media Institute
Testimony to the Senate…
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December 5, 2006
“Is there a dirty bird on your dinner plate,” wondered CBS anchor Katie Couric as she hatched a brief and biased news item centered around a new Consumer Reports study on chicken.
“Bad news…
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December 4, 2006
“Who’s Afraid of a Higher Minimum Wage?” asked the December 4 Washington Post Business section headline. Certainly no business owners in the Washington, D.C., area, claimed the paper.
The story…
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December 1, 2006
Coming just 24 days before Christmas, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien practically accused Bill Clinton of playing Ebenezer Scrooge with the global AIDS problem. Her complaint? He didn’t spend enough of the taxpayers’ money when he was…
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November 30, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs often worries that Detroit is dying because of trade with Japan and other car-producing countries. But on his November 28 program, Dobbs turned his ire to one of Detroit’s Big Three, declaring a fatwa on Ford Motor…
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November 28, 2006
American laborers are “going to extremes” working in jobs “where 60 hours a week can be considered part-time, and overtime is an understatement.”
That’s how ABC anchor Charles Gibson teased a…
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November 27, 2006
Pity the poor 20-something – at least that’s what ABC and its partner USA Today seem to want to you to do. The two news organizations teamed up to portray young adults drowning in the “national crisis” of “college loans and…