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November 8, 2004
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For nearly four years, network news programs have presented a skewed view of global warming and the Kyoto treaty that liberal environmentalists claim would cure it. Those same newscasts have all-but ignored the negative economic…
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November 8, 2004
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Deadly droughts, polar caps melting, forest fires, sweltering heat. Global warming hasn’t hit the news every day, but when it has, it has done so with a bang. Network news programs have parroted almost any claim to paint a…
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October 14, 2004
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The media gave President Bush consistently negative press about perceived poor job creation and unemployment in the summer of 2004 but their reports were overwhelmingly positive when President Clinton ran for reelection in the summer…
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October 14, 2004
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The media have hammered President George W. Bush on the employment issue despite 13 straight months of positive job creation and other good economic news. The October 8, 2004 jobs report was the latest evidence that they treat…
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October 14, 2004
An Economists View
Reporting Labor Statistics Correctly
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.
The George Munson Professor
of Political Economy, Hillsdale…
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September 23, 2004
The food police are looking to
take a healthy bite out of corporate America. What is their beef?
They think the food industry is making all of us fat. Are they
recommending we eat less or hit the gym? Not…
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August 20, 2004
Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell is promoting her new book attacking the pharmaceutical industry and urging added government regulations at the same time. She is already hitting the media circuit as hard as she hits…
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June 29, 2004
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese
Americans could correlate closely…
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June 2, 2004
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More and more Americans are obsessed with their weight, and the news media have responded with an abundance of stories about food and fat. But there’s more to the fat story than just giving the public more news they can use. Some…
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June 2, 2004
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It’s hard to turn on a television set and not be bombarded with news about fat — a new warning about the dangers of obesity, a new diet that lets you eat more while the pounds melt away, or the unveiling of a new drug that…