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November 11, 2008
Just as the government was boosting its assistance to troubled insurance giant AIG, one of the networks ran another story criticizing an executive boondoggle that wasn’t an executive boondoggle.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” Nov. 11,…
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November 4, 2008
This presidential campaign season, the candidates threw around proposed tax plans with huge numbers attached. Here’s another big number: four. A reporter at a broadcast network or a major American newspaper is four times more likely to turn to…
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October 31, 2008
Better late than never. On Oct. 30, the day after Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s half-hour prime time infomercial, CBS “Evening News” took a skeptical look at the candidate’s fiscal proposals.
“By the end of his…
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January 26, 2009
The old adage goes, “There are two sides to every issue.” It’s true, unless you report for The Washington Post. In a Jan. 26 story, Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson wrote that President Barack Obama was planning to reverse two Bush administration…
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January 26, 2009
Ever since Chuck Berry pleaded with “Maybellene,” car songs have been a staple of rock n’roll. But can this venerable tradition survive an eco-update? Rocker Neil Young is about to put it to the test with an entire album of songs about electric cars…