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May 9, 2007
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If you want to drive faster, you hit the gas. Network news shows that want higher ratings do the same thing, except they hit gas prices. Now that gasoline has topped $3 nationally for 2007, the networks are again warning…
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May 9, 2007
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Gas prices have again passed $3 a gallon. But Americans should be used to high prices by now – the mainstream media have been warning them of $4, $5 and even $6 a gallon for more than two years. According to a May 7, 2007, CNN poll…
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May 9, 2007
Head for the hills; gas prices are over $3 – just make sure you carpool.
That’s the message network Chicken Littles are telling viewers as they hype so-called “record prices” and warn of an economic cataclysm tied to $4-, $5- or $6-a-…
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May 9, 2007
“Eight states have no laws at all regulating these vehicles, 12 others have no minimum riding age, so now some senators want to consider federal restrictions,” said consumer correspondent Elisabeth Leamy.
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May 8, 2007
Both CBS “Evening News” and ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” reported that the national average price for gasoline was “just two cents short of the record.”
But the networks’ two cents were wrong.
Gasoline prices, which both…
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May 6, 2007
Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people. Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns…
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May 4, 2007
“Business is Back,” blares the headline, accompanied by a cover graphic of a fist punching through the page of the May 14 issue of Fortune magazine.
“No CEO dares say it, yet it must be said:…
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May 3, 2007
Both ABC and CBS evening news programs praised a new drug that could save lives threatened by osteoporosis. But they didn’t say what company spent years and millions of dollars developing it.
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May 2, 2007
Networks
Chip Away at Dow Milestones
How many times does the Dow
have to…