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November 3, 2006
According to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the much-maligned Wal-Mart’s (NYSE: WMT) policy that its workers should report to work on time is a sign of how dastardly the company is.
“Are you sometimes a little bit late for work? Maybe ten…
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November 3, 2006
Just hours before unemployment dropped to a 5-year low and just five days before an election, CBS’s Katie Couric was warning about “jobs in jeopardy.”
Couric, who also had downplayed the recent Dow…
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November 3, 2006
Minimum wage increases will be on the ballot in six states on November 7. PBS’s “Now” took the opportunity to push for broad increases on its October 27 edition, showcasing worker Melone Peyton, who doesn’t even earn minimum…
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November 2, 2006
“Upbeat” sales numbers for General Motors and Ford were announced November 1, but the news was conspicuously absent from two of the three major evening newscasts. ABC’s “World News Tonight with…
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November 2, 2006
It’s less than a week before an election and you’ve spent four years insisting housing market is a bubble on the verge of popping – jeopardizing the economy. What do you do? If you’re CBS, you raise the specter of the worst economic calamity of…
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November 1, 2006
Since the 2003 Bush tax cuts, the media have joined the chorus of Democrats in singing an “anti-tax cut” hymn. As another election looms, some of the singers have changed, but the song remains the same.
“Three trillion dollars worth of…
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November 1, 2006
Watching TV can be torture. This close to the election, it’s even worse thanks to TV news.
For more than a year, the networks told us almost every bit of good economic news was somehow bad. Now that they feel they have conservatives right…
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November 1, 2006
Then
and Now, Media Sing Along to Dems' Election Song: 'No Tax Cuts'
In 2003, Democrats and the media said the tax cuts
wouldnt work. They said (and still do…
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November 1, 2006
Wages are growing at the fastest pace since the last election year, but USA Today spun that news negatively in its November 1 paper. Instead, readers got a unhealthy dose of inflation worries.
“Ask most…
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October 31, 2006
KFC announced it is cutting the trans fats from much of its menu, and the media celebrated not chewing the fat as “another giant step in the movement to make America’s food healthier.”
But that “…