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March 5, 2009
It’s a bad time to be taking a “business” trip to a luxurious retreat in a warm climate. Especially if you’re doing it on someone else’s dime. If the networks find out, they’ll sneak hidden cameras in and report every detail of your lavish parties,…
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March 12, 2008
The Democratic presidential race is still going strong and both candidates have latched on to the housing market as a key issue. Both want to bail out mortgage holders, but the news media have given little in-depth attention…
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February 25, 2009
What a crime! A profitable company honors a contract and spends its own money to host events for clients – the audacity!Taking a page from ABC’s AIG hit job, NBC’s “Today Show” on Feb. 25 took a cheap shot at Northern Trust Bank for the perceived…
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February 16, 2009
In case you were unaware, soft drinks may be hazardous to your teeth.ABC’s Diane Sawyer made that abundantly clear in a report during the Feb. 13 “20/20. The report was the product of two years investigating the poverty and adversity faced by…
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February 12, 2009
Occasionally, the news media provides justice for a wronged industry or company.
That’s what correspondent Mark Strassmann’s story did on the Feb. 11 “CBS Evening News.” He exposed the repercussions of the recent salmonella…
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January 20, 2008
Michelle Singletary, a Washington Post personal finance columnist known for usually sound advice, used her January 20 column to boost Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Singletary echoed…
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December 12, 2011
Broadcast
journalists have been the only ones bidding up gas prices lately.
While they foretell a horizon of $4 and $5 gas, consumers on U.S.
streets are paying an average of $2.81 up…
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December 12, 2011
The Picture of Hype
Networks show exaggerated video of
highest gas prices, hyping daily increases but glossing over the…
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December 12, 2011
As Katrina
survivors begin to file insurance claims, some politicians and
activists want to hold insurance companies and taxpayers responsible
for uninsured properties. The media are…
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June 28, 2006
TV journalists have been warning of “stagflation,” a bursting housing bubble, and even “recession,” but consumers are far more confident about the economy than journalists.
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