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August 20, 2008
When is an increase in consumer confidence bad news? When ABC reports it.
Network anchor George Stephanopoulos led off the August 19 "World News" with this gloom-and-doom teaser: “Terrible…
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August 20, 2008
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a disaster as “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss or destruction.”
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama used it to describe one quarter of…
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August 19, 2008
CBS News finally found a reason to praise one company for oil speculation, despite past criticism of the practice.
As oil climbed toward its record high over $147 a barrel in July, “CBS Evening…
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August 18, 2008
As oil hit a record of more than $147 a barrel on July 11, the media made a game of trying to determine the root cause by focusing on the minutia and not on economics – specifically supply and demand according to one expert…
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August 18, 2008
What’s 19 billion barrels of oil between friends?
CNNMoney.com writer Steve Hargreaves underestimated the amount of oil available in currently untapped offshore sites by 19 billion barrels…
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August 15, 2008
The NBC family of networks has no problem showing viewers how to save the planet. But if it is a muggy, smoggy 85 degrees, as is the forecast for Beijing this week, consider looking elsewhere for eco-inspiration. …
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August 15, 2008
For the second day in a row, CNBC “Squawk Box” fill-in anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera championed the notion that an economy unfettered from taxation is the best policy.
Caruso-Cabrera and co-anchor Joe Kernan interviewed Douglas Holtz-…
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August 15, 2008
Here are two seemingly unrelated facts:
1. Comedienne Ellen DeGeneres and her girlfriend Portia de Rossi will get married in California this weekend.
2. One of the platform planks for the Democrats at this year's convention includes language to…
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August 14, 2008
Anytime a journalist invokes the name of the late economist Milton Friedman, and doesn’t bash him, it is worthy of praise.
CNBC “Squawk Box” fill-in co-host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera did just that. The comment came in an interview with…
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August 14, 2008
Perhaps Charles Gibson was trying to vent on behalf of Americans paying higher prices at the pump. In an interview about record oil company profits August 13 on “World News,” Gibson pressed ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on…
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