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October 16, 2006
In search of a “Prescription for Change” for “fixing American health care,” anchor Dan Harris of ABC’s “World News Sunday” promised viewers a weeklong look at “one of the most urgent and expensive issues facing this country.” But the medicine…
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October 13, 2006
“Support Environmentalists With a Rope.”
On the October 11 “Moyers on America” show, titled “Is God Green?” Rocky Barker used these five words to sum up Republican sentiment towards environmentalists. Barker, environmental reporter for…
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October 13, 2006
Companies can’t win – even when they literally give away money. ABC attacked businesses for helping “the corporate bottom line” by funding breast cancer research. In the process, the network relied on a critic of routine…
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October 12, 2006
With a second-straight reduction in the size of the 2006 federal deficit, NBC’s Brian Williams again sounded a pessimistic note to taxpaying viewers of his October 11 program, while ignoring arguments that shrinking deficits…
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October 12, 2006
The media’s daily grind against the food industry continued as CBS warned viewers that even decaf coffee isn’t decaffeinated enough.
“If you are having decaf with your breakfast this morning,…
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October 11, 2006
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Polls have repeatedly shown a public dissatisfied with the economy under President Bush. A January 2006 Pew Research Center survey said 64 percent of those questioned thought economic conditions were fair or poor – and that wasn’t…
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October 11, 2006
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Tune into the network news shows any time during the last year and you'd likely find reporters warning about 'an economy just a bit off-key' or even a 'recession.' The U.S. economy has been depicted as one major event…
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October 11, 2006
The New York Times has put an ironic twist on the 8th Commandment: “Thou shalt not steal.” It’s accused churches nationwide of fleecing taxpayers and local governments using the First Amendment.
The Times devoted more than 17,000 words…
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October 11, 2006
Having huffed and puffed and still not blown the housing market down, NBC News is now raising fears of another bubble. A tech bubble.
With Internet company Google’s (NASD: GOOG) recent purchase…
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October 11, 2006
Each day in Darfur, 80 children younger than the age of five die because of malnutrition, disease and poor living conditions caused by the war in the Sudan. North Korea has tested nuclear weapons, and violence among ethnic and religious groups…