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October 4, 2006
October 3 saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average close at a record high of 11,727.34. The “CBS Evening News” saw economic trouble on the horizon.
While CBS’s Anthony Mason offered qualified praise for the market’s recent rally, he sowed…
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October 3, 2006
Five days after CNN’s Miles O’Brien painted Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) as a quixotic crusader against an overwhelming consensus on climate change, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee got a chance to take on the…
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October 2, 2006
Praise the Lord and pass the tax bill.
The October 1 edition of ABC’s “World News Sunday” preached that the 51 houses of worship in Stafford, Texas, are a holy terror to the city’s finances, citing the mayor’s complaints about lack of tax…
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October 2, 2006
Veteran Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz admitted recently what many conservatives have long argued: taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) leans heavily to the left politically.
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September 29, 2006
NBC’s “The Fleecing of America” is an ongoing series that tells viewers about wasteful government spending. Yet the latest edition of the series changed the rules and blamed oil companies for the government’s billion-dollar…
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September 28, 2006
Climate change science is complex and chock-full of heated disputes between dissenting scientists, but CNN’s “American Morning” portrayed Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (R) as striving against the winds of scientific…
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September 28, 2006
The Dow Jones industrial average closed only 34 points away from its record high September 27, yet “NBC Nightly News” found a cloud to hide that silver lining.
“Wall Street is riding high on a wave of confidence about the economy,” said…
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September 28, 2006
“New York, New York is getting ready to lead the nation in evicting a killer from restaurants,” teased Katie Couric at the intro to the “Evening News.”
The CBS anchor’s take on a proposed trans…
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September 27, 2006
“Just how far down and down and down are house prices going to fall?” asked CNN’s Soledad O’Brien after market prices fell for the first time in 11 years.
O’Brien’s words introduced a story…
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September 27, 2006
What goes down must come up. That’s what many reporters have been saying since gas prices started falling. Gas prices have dropped a total of 68 cents, dropping every business day for the past 35 straight business days since August 11. But…