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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryReporters consider most risky products newsworthy, but tobacco gets
far more coverage than any other risky product, including such illegal
drugs as cocaine and marijuana. This is one conclusion of a special
year-long, two-part study…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryWhat kind of messages about business and the American workplace does
prime time tele-vision send to viewers? To find out, the Free Market
Project of the Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed 17 weeks of prime
time fare over 26 months…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryAccording to the National Council on Economic Education, 79 percent
of Americans get their information about the economy from television.
When the network news shows fail to provide context in economic stories
or simply leave basic…
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June 1, 2012
Executive SummaryPolls from groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Citizens for a Sound
Economy show that most climate scientists are skeptical of claims that
the climate change of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse
gas emissions. This is…
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May 31, 2012
Nanny
state Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at it again, trying to pass a ban on
large sugary drinks, all with the media’s help of course. CNN’s Alina
Cho favored the proposal in her May 31 report during the 10 a.m. hour of
“Newsroom.”“Newsroom”…
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May 31, 2012
Executive SummaryA recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, reported in the April 9 Wall Street Journal,
asked Americans which they would prefer: a candidate who advocates
cutting taxes, or a candidate who favors more spending on education…
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May 31, 2012
You might want to sit down for this. At 11:14 a.m. EST, Friday, May 25, something remarkable happened on the very left leaning MSNBC. If you missed it, you missed a rare and momentous moment in MSNBC television. MSNBC host Thomas Roberts raised…
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May 24, 2012
Executive SummaryFor years, liberal environmentalists have insisted that only tough
regulations on economic activity can prevent the climate catastrophe of
human-induced global warming. So far, these activists’ biggest policy
success has been the…
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May 22, 2012
CNN
Money recently introduced the world to Holly McCall, a thirty-four year
old stay-at-home mother of two from Vienna, Va, who is fighting against
the credit card “reforms” enacted in 2009. in a May 16 story, CNN
Money’s Blake Ellis wrote that…
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May 15, 2012
The
New York Times continued and old media theme of complaining about the
volume of student debt on May 13 with its front page story: “A
Generation Hobbled by College Debt.”Times
writers Andrew Martin and Andrew W. Lehren began the 4,647-word…