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October 19, 2006
Lou Dobbs’s hour-long special “War on the Middle Class” should have been titled “Vote for Bigger Government This Election Year.”
With barely an attempt at journalistic objectivity, against the backdrop "America Votes 2006," the October 18…
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October 18, 2006
Are you happy that gas prices are down to earth again? Good, now’s the perfect time to tax you more for it, if only it wasn’t political suicide to do so.
That’s the tone Washington Post reporter Steve Mufson took in his October 18 business…
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October 18, 2006
Hours before Lou Dobbs’s “War on the Middle Class” special was set to air on CNN, the October 18 New York Times poked holes in one of the fears Dobbs has often peddled to viewers – the “threat” to the U.S. auto…
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October 18, 2006
When we were kids, network anchors like Walter Cronkite read us news each night like parents telling stories. But as we’ve grown older, the nightly news stories have transformed into grim fairy tales about some terrifying threat to you and me…
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October 18, 2006
A
Massive Reporting Deficit
Networks have spun the federal deficit negatively 35
times since the State of the Union address. Only once did a journalist…
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October 18, 2006
“The middle class still says generally it feels like the American Dream is a lost cause.”
Thus began the last 12 hours of CNN’s in-house PR push for Lou Dobbs’s October 18 special “War on the Middle Class.” Dobbs himself has been fond of…
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October 18, 2006
Since the 2006 State of the Union address, the networks have complained about the deficit and called it “soaring,” “ballooning,” “record high” and “exploded.”
Though the deficit has trended steadily downward by billions of dollars,…
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October 17, 2006
The second day into Prescription For Change, a
weeklong series on American health care, ABC News revealed its recent poll found
nearly 9 out of 10 Americans are happy with their health care. But rather than
finding the statistic an…
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October 16, 2006
In search of a “Prescription for Change” for “fixing American health care,” anchor Dan Harris of ABC’s “World News Sunday” promised viewers a weeklong look at “one of the most urgent and expensive issues facing this country.” But the medicine…
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October 13, 2006
“Support Environmentalists With a Rope.”
On the October 11 “Moyers on America” show, titled “Is God Green?” Rocky Barker used these five words to sum up Republican sentiment towards environmentalists. Barker, environmental reporter for…