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August 31, 2006
What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.
In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.
“[T]he current…
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August 30, 2006
“Gee, I’d love to be fair and balanced, but I tried even less than I did two days ago.”
That’s what CNN’s Ali Velshi might as well have said in his August 30 story on “American Morning” in his…
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August 30, 2006
Labor Day isn’t just a holiday. It’s one more chance for the media to bemoan the state of the American worker. This isn’t a case of glass half full or half empty. In the news, there isn’t any glass at all – it’s been outsourced to Asia.
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August 30, 2006
How’s the American worker doing on this Labor Day weekend?
According to network news, he’s either about to get laid off or he’s just languishing at his current job.
Recent coverage of work has leaned heavily toward the negative,…
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August 30, 2006
Labor
Day or Layoff Day?
Just as youre settling down for your holiday BBQ, the
media led by ABC News want to warn you your job might be in…
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August 30, 2006
Happy with the falling prices at the pump? Fuhgeddaboudit!
That’s what economic wiseguy Matt Lauer suggested to viewers of the August 30 “Today” show, even though oil analysts predict…
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August 29, 2006
“We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a cardiologist…
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August 29, 2006
“Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found that…
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August 28, 2006
CNN’s Allen Wastler recently dialed up pro-regulation rhetoric in a rant against Verizon (NYSE: VZ). “These telecoms. Somebody ought to regulate them, huh?” a nearly apoplectic Allen Wastler asked his colleagues as he began…
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August 28, 2006
With a tropical storm threatening Florida and the one-year anniversary of Katrina approaching, CNN’s August 28 “American Morning” kicked off a weeklong look at “Red Tape and Rubble” in the Gulf Coast. But Ali Velshi’s first…