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August 22, 2006
It’s been just a week since Americans heard the last cries of “record high gas!” from the media. Now gas prices are dropping again, and selected news outlets have noticed.
“Gas prices slip,”…
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August 21, 2006
The global warming debate can be awash with contradicting information – even in separate sections of the same newspaper.
In the August 20 Washington Post, reporter Juliet Eilperin showed that…
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August 18, 2006
Asking “Who is to blame for America’s obesity epidemic” among children, Ann Curry of NBC’s “Today” show introduced a condensed edition of a story to air later that evening on “Dateline NBC.” Reporter Stone Phillips went on…
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August 18, 2006
The “CBS Evening News” has found another corporate villain it says needs more FDA regulation: sunscreen manufacturers.
But it was reporter Trish Regan who burned her audience by leaving out…
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August 17, 2006
The day after the government released July 2006 consumer price index (CPI) data, most media outlets portrayed the new numbers as a positive development, including the Associated Press. Yet The Washington Post gave a pessimistic slant to the…
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August 16, 2006
See Full Report
Al Gore has experienced a surge in media coverage this summer generated mostly by the release of his new film and book on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Even with the extensive media coverage – more than one network story…
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August 16, 2006
See Executive Summary
In the heat of the summer the media talked up a storm about global warming. And the most celebrated “expert” on the topic was a man who received a degree in government, dropped out of two graduate programs (law and divinity)…
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August 16, 2006
NBC’s Campbell Brown floated the image of a real estate “bubble” in a brief item on housing sales on the August 15 “Nightly News.” But not all economists are that pessimistic, and research by the Business & Media…
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August 16, 2006
Summer
Rerun
Global Warming Movie Makes the Media
Hot for Al Gore All Over Again
An Inconvenient Truth gave the media a convenient
excuse to…
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August 16, 2006
Out: the media showing homeless people scrounging for food in dumpster as an indictment of the economy under conservative presidents.
In: the media showing middle class young people scrounging…