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January 23, 2007
Gasoline costs nearly 20 cents less than it did the same time last year, but the good news merited only a passing mention on the night before President Bush’s State of the Union address. By contrast, the networks spent more…
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January 22, 2007
Global warming skeptics have been getting the cold shoulder lately, and it’s not because of the frigid winter weather. As the media have covered this winter’s weird weather patterns, they have been quick to highlight experts who finger global…
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January 22, 2007
”I do drive occasionally, but not enough. I don't own a car because we don't really need it here.” That was New York-based CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam opening her gas price segment on the January 20 “In the Money.”
Her remarks…
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January 22, 2007
The night before his colleague and ex-chain smoker Mike Taibbi aired two stories on a new smoking ban in Bangor, Maine, “NBC Nightly News” senior producer Ed Deitch suggested he found it odd that there would be any opposition to the ordinance…
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January 19, 2007
Just two weeks after raising alarms about the safety of 12 popular infant car seat models, Consumer Reports retracted its report after government studies debunked the results. While ABC, NBC, and CBS all covered the retraction on their January…
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January 19, 2007
Washington Post fashionista Robin Givhan has struck again. This time she’s arguing for regulation of the fashion industry and defending the little people – America’s skinny models.
Givhan led off her article with a blatant attack on…
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January 18, 2007
Sure they’re pushing through a pack of new taxes and regulations meant to punish the wealthy, but it’s really an effort to bring about a new era of centrist politics. That’s essentially how The Washington Post’s Lori Montgomery and Jeffrey…
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January 18, 2007
News that U.S. cancer deaths fell for the second year in a row led the ABC, CBS, and NBC’s evening newscasts. But reporters for all three networks used the chance to editorialize about how much government spends on research – even though it has…
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January 17, 2007
Good economic news filled 2006 – the Dow topped 12,000 for the first time; 1.36 million jobs were added, along with a Labor Department revision that included another 810,000; average wages increased 4.2 percent and corporate earnings set records.…
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January 17, 2007
In its rush to paint vitamin supplements as a “Lethal Weapon” in need of regulation, CBS’s showed its “Passion” for bigger government as correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi used part two of her two-night series on nutrition supplements to accuse Mel…
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