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July 12, 2006
ABC and CBS evening newscasts attacked the pharmaceutical industry for expensive drugs for cancer treatment. Both the July 11 “World News Tonight” and “Evening News” left out dollar figures on drug industry research costs,…
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July 12, 2006
Dr. Sylvester Graham – who was born in 1794 and died in 1851 – has been re-incarnated. His new name is Michael Jacobson, founder and director of the Washington-based “food police,” operating under the name the Center for Science in the Public…
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July 12, 2006
Networks
Serve as Deputy for Food Police
Do you feel comfortable eating that
Big Mac? That frappuccino? If so, the food police havent gotten to you…
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July 11, 2006
“Gas prices are through the roof, why are you still driving?”
That might as well have been the cry from “World News Tonight” substitute anchor Kate Snow as she opened the July 10 broadcast.
The answer would be: They’re just not as…
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July 11, 2006
Young people are too busy buying scores of jeans to worry about socking away money for retirement, ABC’s Betsy Stark suggested to viewers in the first story in her “Money Trap” series on American debt. But Stark left out…
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July 10, 2006
Registered nurses, carpenters, and technical writers are unfairly reaping the spoils of the strong economy while hard-working dishwashers and janitors get the shaft.
That might as well have…
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July 10, 2006
Gas prices are on the rise again, but are they really just one penny below “all-time highs,” as CNN business reporter Carrie Lee suggested recently?
“Up 11 cents a gallon over the past two…
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July 7, 2006
“It’s a financial storm without a shelter in sight,” reporter Mark Strassmann blustered on the July 6 “Evening News.” “Up and down its coast, Florida has an insurance crisis,”…
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July 6, 2006
Thousands of people may lose their jobs in a seaside resort town in New Jersey, thanks to a Democratic governor’s insistence on raising taxes. But CBS News left out the role tax hikes and wasteful spending played in its…
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July 5, 2006
Hollywood usually gets a pass from the media’s participation in promoting class envy, but NBC’s Michael Okwu found a way to attack A-list Hollywood celebrities: their voiceover work for TV commercials. …