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August 27, 2007
Meet the media’s newest coal industry expert Jeff Goodell.
Goodell is consistently cited as a coal expert by the media, although he has no formal expertise or academic credentials in the coal business. Goodell is a contributing editor at…
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August 27, 2007
CNN’s “Your $$$$$” is the hip, fast-moving replacement for “In the Money.” But don’t bother to Google “Your $$$$$.”
It’s not easily searchable. You get millions of results, but none obviously about the program.…
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August 27, 2007
Leave it to MSNBC to help unions bash business and bosses.
Anchor David Shuster actually outdid the union’s “My Bad Boss” contest with a comment about one pregnant employee putting “placenta” on pizza because her boss wouldn’t let her go…
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August 27, 2007
The title for a segment about children’s health insurance on “World News” August 26 might as well have been “Bush Hates Uninsured Children.”
“ABC’s Kate Snow reports tonight on a fierce debate…
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August 24, 2007
In a recent blog post CBS’ Wyatt Andrews gushed about Massachusetts’ new health care plan that requires people to purchase health care. His take:
“This isn't Clinton care;” Andrews assured his audience, “it's a huge experiment to see…
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August 24, 2007
What’s a constitutional amendment among friends? Not much, if you are a liberal economist like Dean Baker. Baker wrote an August 20 piece on Commondreams.org urging Congress to eliminate foreclosures and let homeowners live in those houses…
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August 24, 2007
It is hard to miss the grim news about everyone losing his home from an inability to pay the mortgage. But what if the critical data in those stories were inflated?
“Now we switch to the…
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August 23, 2007
News shows have highlighted a volatile stock market and housing concerns in recent months. But even when consumers have had reason to cheer – like a 44-cent-per-gallon drop in gas prices – the networks have misreported it by…
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August 22, 2007
Networks
Still Get High on Gas
Gas prices have been dropping…
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August 22, 2007
Imagine basing a country’s energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory – a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.
This is…