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March 29, 2007
The TV made them do it.
It made them “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
CBS’s Katie Couric used the cereal slogan as she introduced a March 28 “Evening News” report. The nanny-staters were at it again, this time warning that children who…
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March 28, 2007
Media coverage of housing is booming again. This time, it’s the Shocked and Victimized Homebuyers versus the Big Bad Loan Companies.
As the subprime lending “crisis” has gone primetime, the…
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March 28, 2007
“Freedom of Choice” was a song by the punk band Devo released in 1980. Today’s use of the term applied to union voting goes back to those same ’80s roots – back to 1984.
George Orwell’s “1984.”
Just like Orwell, liberal Democrats…
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March 28, 2007
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March 27, 2007
Amidst media coverage of Big Tobacco, one reporter has shown another side of the story – little tobacco?
As the March 27 Wall Street Journal reported, those who want to quit smoking might try tobacco. Smokeless tobacco.
According…
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March 26, 2007
“World News with Charles Gibson” supplied a sad, syrupy story for viewers on March 24 as reporter Bob Jamieson warned of “A truly New England business that may one day disappear.”
“But this year, the syrup season is ending for many…
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March 23, 2007
In traditional “Daily Show” style, host Jon Stewart made a mockery of Al Gore’s extreme message to Congress that “the planet has a fever” during his March 22 program.
“I see. So the planet needs Motrin?” responded Stewart.
After he…
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March 22, 2007
Just one day after Al Gore testified to Congress about global warming, The New York Times printed a 2,247-word profile on a family striving to have no environmental impact for one year in order to write a book about it.
“Welcome to Walden…
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March 21, 2007
People pay a pretty penny for gasoline in the Golden State, so when gas prices are on the rise the media frequently point to California as the highest cost per gallon.
“Let me show you what is the most expensive gasoline location in the…
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March 21, 2007
Now that Al Gore has won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” he headed to Capitol Hill to perform before an even more important crowd: lawmakers who could pass legislation that would make energy unaffordable for many Americans.
And the…