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December 6, 2006
Testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
December 6, 2006
Subject: Global Warming and the Media
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Director, Business & Media Institute
Testimony to the Senate…
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December 6, 2006
Top
10 Media Myths of 2006
Its been another year of wild media predictions, slanted
stories and glaring omissions. What were the biggest whoppers? Be sure
to check…
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December 5, 2006
“The IRS is a lapdog for the American taxpayer, failing to audit some 80 percent of Americans who are expected to pay taxes on the honor system, says one lawmaker.”
Imagine hearing that from a news reporter on CBS’s evening newscast. It’s…
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December 5, 2006
“Is there a dirty bird on your dinner plate,” wondered CBS anchor Katie Couric as she hatched a brief and biased news item centered around a new Consumer Reports study on chicken.
“Bad news…
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December 4, 2006
“Who’s Afraid of a Higher Minimum Wage?” asked the December 4 Washington Post Business section headline. Certainly no business owners in the Washington, D.C., area, claimed the paper.
The story…
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December 1, 2006
Trish Regan’s “Overweight in America” report investigated a possible “scientific reason” for overeating on Nov. 30, but kept the story light on balance.
“Ever wonder why we seem to crave most,…
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December 1, 2006
Coming just 24 days before Christmas, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien practically accused Bill Clinton of playing Ebenezer Scrooge with the global AIDS problem. Her complaint? He didn’t spend enough of the taxpayers’ money when he was…
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November 30, 2006
It sounded like a spy thriller: Kremlin critic dies in London after being poisoned with a radioactive material.
But instead of dispelling fears surrounding the actual death of former KGB agent…
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November 30, 2006
CNN’s Lou Dobbs often worries that Detroit is dying because of trade with Japan and other car-producing countries. But on his November 28 program, Dobbs turned his ire to one of Detroit’s Big Three, declaring a fatwa on Ford Motor…
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November 29, 2006
Unhealthy
Bias in Implant Stories, Then and Now
Silicone breast implants have been cleared by the FDA for
the marketplace once again. During the 14-year ban…
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