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February 17, 2007
Cancer.
The word understandably provokes emotional response and ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” was banking on it when they misled viewers in a one-sided story during the February 15 broadcast.
Anchor Charles Gibson introduced…
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February 16, 2007
Whoever said you can lead a horse to water but can’t make him drink never met the America media. Since Al Gore’s announcement of worldwide concerts to combat climate change, journalists have been swallowing Gore’s claims that it’s purely a “…
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February 15, 2007
Treating homeowner insurance as a right rather than a business contract, ABC’s “Good Morning America” slammed insurance underwriter State Farm for its decision to stop selling new policies to homeowners in Mississippi.…
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February 14, 2007
This
Valentine's, Diamonds Have It Rough
"Blood Diamond" is just the latest in
the category of business-bashing Oscar nominees. During this Academy
Award…
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February 14, 2007
Cubic zirconia instead of diamonds?
To hear the media tell it, that’s what the amorous should be giving their sweethearts this Valentine’s Day – thanks to a media obsession with “human suffering” highlighted in the Oscar-nominated movie…
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February 14, 2007
After making a brief appearance in 2005 and spending 2006 in the wings, Social Security reform took center stage again last week with the inclusion of “personal retirement accounts” in President Bush’s budget proposal.
Following the…
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February 14, 2007
A prominent businessman sold stock days before it took a dive, and congressional Democrats are pushing for an investigation, But the Washington Post’s February 14 report emphasized political posturing by congressmen and left out facts the paper…
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February 13, 2007
The day after President Bush’s economic advisers released their official 2007 economic forecast – a story shunted to page C3 – The New York Times cast a pall on the economy, comparing current events to the economy of the pre-dot-com crash of…
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February 12, 2007
“Consider the case closed on global warming.”
That’s how Bryan Walsh started his Time magazine feature in the February 19 issue, the latest attempt by Time to close the debate on global warming. Last year, the April 3 issue of the…
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February 9, 2007
Is meeting a former vice president a religious experience? Devout global warming believer and CBS reporter Harry Smith seemed to think so.
A week after foreseeing Miami as the next lost city of Atlantis, CBS’s Harry Smith declared former…