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October 10, 2006
It took the Department of Labor several months to locate 810,000 new jobs it had overlooked – but network news still hasn’t found them, despite the agency’s report on October 6.
The employment report was full of positive news:…
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October 10, 2006
The Disney movie ‘102 Dalmatians’ should be R-rated instead of G, two anti-smoking activists insist. Not because they antagonist was a demented woman bent on turning cute puppies into a fur coat. Nope. Cruella De…
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October 6, 2006
Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson devoted an October 6 Business section article to how “Conspiracy Theories Abound as Oil Prices Fluctuate.” Yet while Mufson gave credit to CNN’s Miles O’Brien for dismissing conspiracy…
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October 6, 2006
The Dow Jones average closed at a record high for the third consecutive trading day and a retails sales report showed strong consumer activity in the month of September. But none of the three broadcast evening news programs…
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October 5, 2006
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it’s safe to eat spinach again, following a recent E. coli scare. But a story in the Money section for the October 5 “USA Today” sought to trouble readers afresh with produce…
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October 5, 2006
An official within an international oil cartel recently suggested calling an “emergency meeting” to arrange for oil production cuts in an attempt to drive up the price of oil. Although the move follows a smaller production…
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October 4, 2006
One month away from the election, the media are right in line with the Democratic talking point of “stagnant wages.”
“We are in a period of stagnant wages for workers in this country,” said CNN’s Lou Dobbs on a September 15 CBS “Early…
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October 4, 2006
Waging
War
When the media talk about wages, its
usually a story of stagnation or decline. So why does the government
say compensation has increased…
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October 4, 2006
Off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, two million old tires are pounding into reefs, destroying the ecosystem and littering the shoreline. It’s an environmentalist catastrophe.
That’s right – environmentalist. This disaster might as…
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October 4, 2006
No matter how the economy is doing, the word 'recession' never seems too far away. CBS began the year with talk of a recession and similar discussion has cropped on up ABC and CNN throughout 2006 and even going back to…