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February 20, 2006
Who needs NBCs coverage of Olympic ice dancing when CBS was
thrilling viewers with visions of Waterworld?
No, not the 1995 Kevin Costner clunker, but an apocalyptic 60
Minutes report awash…
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February 17, 2006
Greenlands glaciers are either growing or shrinking, depending on
which study you read.
The media took global warming off the back burner this
week to hype an isolated study showing…
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February 16, 2006
The day after Ben Bernanke testified for the first time as Federal
Reserve chairman before Congress, his textbook co-author called for
substantially higher taxes on gasoline. Robert Frank, a Cornell…
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February 15, 2006
Boehner gave him a straightforward reply: Tim, we didnt. He
explained that the budget-reduction measure signed by Bush would
expand benefits for students, higher loan limits, lower origination…
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February 15, 2006
Since the early January Sago Mine tragedy, most media have generally
slanted coverage of the U.S. mining industry in a negative direction
focusing coverage on mining regulations as too weak, fines too…
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February 14, 2006
The New York Times has long made a habit of airing its disdain for
big cuts in domestic spending and soaring profits at major oil
companies. However, Edmund Andrews chose to reinvent the wheel by…
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February 14, 2006
CNNs Lou Dobbs has often made the Outsourcing of America a focus
of his nightly program, Lou Dobbs Tonight. But on the February 13
edition, Dobbs and reporter Bill Tucker went a step further,…
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February 13, 2006
The weekend before Valentines Day, CNN business reporters showed
their infatuation with class warfare as they courted a critic of
corporate pay scales. None of the In the Money panelists, however…
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February 9, 2006
In New Hampshire on February 8, President Bush gave a simple lesson
journalists could use. He compared slowing spending growth to
driving the speed limit, rather than cutting spending, which would…