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March 15, 2007
How many networks does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. “CBS Evening News” and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” both excluded anti-regulatory opinions from segments about a coalition that wants to ban incandescent light bulbs in…
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March 14, 2007
Evening newscasts last night praised a new drug, Tykerb, calling it a possible “lifesaver” for women fighting breast cancer, but none of the reports ever mentioned the company that developed the effective new treatment.
“A new drug that…
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March 14, 2007
CBS and ABC heaped blame on lenders, rather than borrowers after a stock market slide yesterday was spurred by new home foreclosure numbers. Both networks lamented the problems of borrowers rather than blame them for taking out high-risk loans…
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March 13, 2007
A sure sign of spring is the launch of media hysteria about the increasing cost of gasoline.
“Gas prices are not just creeping up again, they’re shooting up and we’re still a long way from summer,” said anchor Charles Gibson as he…
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March 12, 2007
You can’t win for losing – well, not if you’re Exxon.
The San Jose Mercury News reported on March 11 that Steve Bing has revoked donations to Stanford University because of a partnership between ExxonMobil and Stanford, but the paper left…
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March 12, 2007
ABC “World News Sunday” bashed Halliburton on March 11, this time for deciding to move its corporate headquarters to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The report accused the company on many levels but allowed just one short response to the charges…
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March 9, 2007
Seeking “cool solutions” to global warming, CBS “Evening News” wrapped up its three-part series with a look at “an ecological fantasy island” on March 8
It was more of a liberal fantasy.
The Mark Phillips report told the story of…
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March 9, 2007
Despite previous complaints about “outrageous” CEO pay, both NBC and ABC proclaimed “good news” about the increasing number of female billionaires on March 8.
According to Forbes magazine, there are 946 billionaires in the world,…
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March 7, 2007
Typically, green represents the deadly sin of envy, but with the media’s help it now also stands for hypocrisy.
In this case, the hypocrisy is media promotion of buying carbon offsets – giving a donation to an energy-saving project as…
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March 1, 2007
Home is where the heart is – which may explain why television journalists used a decrease in home sales to bolster negative economic reports on February 28.
Both NBC “Nightly News” and CBS “Evening News” cited the “biggest drop in 13…
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