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October 25, 2006
CNN's
War on the Economy
As the election nears, CNN is pushing the war on the
middle class throughout its broadcasts. According to its reporters and…
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October 25, 2006
Less than two weeks before the November elections, an NBC “Today” show co-host asked, “are we being manipulated” by falling gas prices. Reporter Carl Quintanilla dismissed the idea but still cast “Big Oil” and conservatives…
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October 24, 2006
Gas prices hit their lowest point since January and the Dow Jones closed on yet another record high, but on the October 24 evening newscast CBS’s Katie Couric colored her business briefing in red, focusing on Ford Motor Company’s (NYSE: F)…
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October 24, 2006
It’s basic economics: if demand for something goes up, so will the price – especially if the supply is limited.
The number of available airplane seats is limited approaching Thanksgiving and…
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October 24, 2006
It took 31 years, but Newsweek magazine admitted it was incorrect about climate change. In a nearly 1,000-word correction, Senior Editor Jerry Adler finally agreed that a 1975 piece on global cooling “was so spectacularly wrong…
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October 24, 2006
The Dow Jones Industrial Average set an all time record on October 19, closing a few points about 12,000. Yet only ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” led the newscast with the news, while CBS’s Katie Couric dismissed the…
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October 23, 2006
T-Rex. The Dodo bird. The middle class?
According to many CNN anchors and reporters, the extinction of the middle class is looming, and “In the Money” advanced the theory on October 21.…
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October 23, 2006
“Freshman 15 down to just 8,” blared an October 23 USA Today headline. But reporter Nanci Hellmich still found an appetite for worry about college students’ eating habits in her Life section article. …
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October 20, 2006
Conspiracy theories involving Republicans and “Big Oil” are more newsworthy to The Washington Post than an international oil cartel’s moves to pump up prices.
While The Washington Post recently highlighted in its Business section how…
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October 20, 2006
The Weather Channel already tells viewers to stay inside during bad weather, but a new campaign also tells them what to think and do about global warming.
The channel’s Climate Watch,…