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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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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…
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November 20, 2006
Even death isn’t a great equalizer at The Washington Post. Two of America’s most well-known economists died in 2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. But there the similarities ended.
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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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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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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…
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July 24, 2006
If you want to read between the lines for politicians, it helps if you know what book they’re reading. In the case of liberal would-be tax fixer Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), it appears to be Mao’s “Little Red Book.”
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June 16, 2006
“We are the problem,” declared NBC’s “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer doing a stint as host for the SciFi network. Lauer was referring to mankind’s alleged misuse of planet Earth, but his comment better suits the media…
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