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December 18, 2007
Before you start getting some crazy idea about the holiday shopping season being on a positive track, tune into the network news for a reminder that the sales figures present an “ominous” sign.
Why?…
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December 17, 2007
The U.S. Congress looks poised to follow Australia and other allies in effectively banning traditional light bulbs. In a front-page story December 17, USA Today reporter Paul Davidson praised the provision of the energy bill…
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November 17, 2006
Workers of the world unite – on the pages of The Washington Post Business section. The Post made the gathering easy, describing a huge union campaign to organize janitorial workers in Houston as a battle of “a $5.25-an-hour…
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November 13, 2006
The Washington Post came up with a new code phrase for rent control – “reasonably priced housing.”
In an article bemoaning the potential “loss of middle-income housing – and people” in…
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December 17, 2007
In her “60 Minutes” interview with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez Sunday, Katie Couric asked the third baseman about steroids in baseball, the home run record he is poised to break eventually, and his own upstaging of…
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October 31, 2006
KFC announced it is cutting the trans fats from much of its menu, and the media celebrated not chewing the fat as “another giant step in the movement to make America’s food healthier.”
But that “…
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December 12, 2007
The Hollywood Goes Green conference featured not only appearances by celebrities the caliber of Ed Begley Jr. and Larry Hagman, but also gave industry members the chance to see ways to lessen their own “carbon footprints,”…
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December 12, 2007
How do you solve the problem that the American public seems uninterested in television shows and movies that preach about global warming and other environmental issues? Hide it from them! That's the…
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September 15, 2006
The offer of wide-scale buyouts at Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) gave networks news shows a new excuse to claim – falsely – that the U.S. auto industry is “now struggling to survive.”
NBC’s report…
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August 21, 2006
The global warming debate can be awash with contradicting information – even in separate sections of the same newspaper.
In the August 20 Washington Post, reporter Juliet Eilperin showed that…