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October 27, 2010
Spinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That wasn’t how the media reported it. Negative reports and stories…
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September 23, 2004
The food police are looking to
take a healthy bite out of corporate America. What is their beef?
They think the food industry is making all of us fat. Are they
recommending we eat less or hit the gym? Not…
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August 20, 2004
Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell is promoting her new book attacking the pharmaceutical industry and urging added government regulations at the same time. She is already hitting the media circuit as hard as she hits…
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December 21, 2005
The Christmas shopping season culminated a strong year for the U.S.
economy. But instead of ringing out the old year and toasting the
economys success, 43 percent of Americans think were in a…
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November 30, 2005
Housing prices are going through the roof. After the dot-com bubble,
we need to be extremely cautious with our money and steer clear of
something risky like purchasing homes. We need to avoid having the…
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November 16, 2005
The climate is changing right before our very eyes. Its not the
weather Im talking about its the media climate.
On Sunday, November 14, Fox News set aside its status
as the best network…
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October 26, 2005
The health care community is worried about the chance of a deadly
flu outbreak. This isnt just the media trying to scare us to death.
Medical professionals are genuinely concerned and it shows. While…
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October 19, 2005
The presidents tax panel is close to issuing its recommendations,
but we already know enough of the result to call it a failure. The
panel is missing an opportunity to fix a system that everyone in…
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January 7, 2005
The holidays are over and millions have resolved to lose the
weight we just gained. As we head into the new year, the major media
will make you think twice about the whole concept of holiday
stuffing. How…
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June 7, 2006
When most people hear the word Enron, they mentally complete the
phrase by adding the word scandal. As reporter Lester Holt of
NBCs Today put it in a January 1 story, Enron has been the
poster…