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February 5, 2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs report on Feb. 5, showing an “unexpected” decline in the overall unemployment rate. But the reactions from two cable news channels were markedly different.CNN’s Allan Chernoff called it “a…
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February 5, 2010
There have been just over a hundred complaints about brake problems on the Toyota Prius. And according to Sylvia Marino of consumer car Web site Edmunds.com, “maybe as few as 1 in 12,000 or 1 in 13,000 of the cars in the recall even has the…
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February 4, 2010
Democratic Sen. Al Franken admitted he didn’t necessarily have legal expertise to address the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, but he could more than make up for that shortcoming through his experience in show business. Franken, a member of the Senate…
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February 4, 2010
President Obama just submitted a $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the largest federal budget ever, which will come with a “record amount of red ink.” The projected deficit of that budget would be $1.6 trillion, yet the networks didn’t criticize him…
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February 3, 2010
Obama Submits Largest Budget in History,
But Portrayed as Fiscal
Conservative by Networks
What would you call a president who wants to spend $700 billion
more…
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February 3, 2010
As the old cliché goes, you don’t use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but according to Rick Santelli, that’s exactly what it appears the Obama administration is doing terms of financial regulation and fiscal discipline.On CNBC’s Feb. 2 broadcast of “…
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January 29, 2010
The government’s traditionally enforced safety standards on automobiles sold in the United States. But the government didn’t always own a car company. So you’d expect the media to take a hard look when the government’s roles as regulator and…
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January 29, 2010
Fourth quarter GDP growth “beat expectations,” exciting some journalists on Jan. 29. But a number of economists were downbeat.The 5.7 percent growth for the last quarter of 2009 sparked media reactions on both MSNBC and CNN.Savannah Guthrie declared…
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January 28, 2010
President Barack Obama encouraged some business interests by mentioning nuclear energy and offshore drilling during his Jan. 27 State of the Union speech. Those less popular energy solutions joined the usual alternative rhetoric of wind, solar and…
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January 28, 2010
President Barack Obama’s plan to “freeze” a tiny portion of the federal budget hit Washington with a “thud” Jan. 26.
Conservatives argued that the spending freeze Obama would highlight in his State of the Union address Jan. 27 wasn’t enough.…