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December 1, 2006
Coming just 24 days before Christmas, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien practically accused Bill Clinton of playing Ebenezer Scrooge with the global AIDS problem. Her complaint? He didn’t spend enough of the taxpayers’ money when he was…
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November 30, 2006
It sounded like a spy thriller: Kremlin critic dies in London after being poisoned with a radioactive material.
But instead of dispelling fears surrounding the actual death of former KGB agent…
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November 30, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs often worries that Detroit is dying because of trade with Japan and other car-producing countries. But on his November 28 program, Dobbs turned his ire to one of Detroit’s Big Three, declaring a fatwa on Ford Motor…
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November 29, 2006
Unhealthy
Bias in Implant Stories, Then and Now
Silicone breast implants have been cleared by the FDA for
the marketplace once again. During the 14-year ban…
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November 29, 2006
In 1975, Bob Dylan sang about being given “shelter from the storm.” In 2006, the media warned us that was what everyone would need facing another devastating hurricane season.
Americans braced back in May as the media belted out another…
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November 29, 2006
The FDA has put silicone breast implants back on the market. But journalists, who hyped the implants’ dangers more than a decade ago, have shown they’re not convinced.
“Given the history of this product, I think a lot of people are going…
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November 28, 2006
American laborers are “going to extremes” working in jobs “where 60 hours a week can be considered part-time, and overtime is an understatement.”
That’s how ABC anchor Charles Gibson teased a…
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November 27, 2006
Pity the poor 20-something – at least that’s what ABC and its partner USA Today seem to want to you to do. The two news organizations teamed up to portray young adults drowning in the “national crisis” of “college loans and…
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November 22, 2006
Just two days before the start of the Christmas shopping season, USA Today provided parents a “tip sheet to know what to watch for to shield their kids, and themselves” – shielding from dastardly retailers, that is. …
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November 21, 2006
“So are we OK or in the early stages of a housing-led crash that might depress us all?”
That was the leading question of PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman on the November 17 “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
The segment on the “…