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April 5, 2006
Imagine being fined by your state government for not buying
something you choose to avoid purchasing. It may sound crazy, but in
Massachusetts it may soon be the law.
A bill awaiting…
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April 5, 2006
The First Employment Contract (CPE is its French abbreviation),
signed into law April 2 by President Jacques Chirac, eases
restrictions on employers. It allows them to fire workers under the…
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April 5, 2006
Paris
When It Sizzles
As French protesters clash with riot police, Americans
arent getting the full story from U.S. broadcast media. Journalists…
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April 5, 2006
The youth of France are faced with unemployment rates that parallel
those of the general U.S. labor force during the Great Depression,
with about one out of five people aged 18 to 25 unable to find work…
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April 4, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs offer of subsidized heating oil
to the frosty northeastern United States this past winter was met
warmly by the broadcast media. But network interest in Chavez turned…
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April 3, 2006
It was dj vu on ABC News as World News Tonight
repeated
a February 24 New York Times attempt to discredit philanthropist
Boone Pickens. Reporter Brian Ross even used the same…
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April 3, 2006
The current issue of BusinessWeek
conceded what the Business…
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March 31, 2006
Following on the heels of Time magazines alarmist
cover stories on
global warming, this weekends release of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
has given movie reviewers for major newspapers a…
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March 30, 2006
When environmentalists want regulation, its never enough. And the
media are often willing to give them the spotlight.
New fuel efficiency regulations have the media going…
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March 29, 2006
The New York Times has found another example of corporate evil to
fight:
funny beer ads.
Citing left-wing advocacy groups, Times writer Melanie
Warner penned a…