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     Are the ideals that made this country great in jeopardy? They must be as far as former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw’s is concerned.

     Are the ideals that made this country great in…

Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?

     MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party on his…

     Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?

     MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several…

     As politicians point fingers over who created the financial mess that has taken down major Wall Street players and resulted in the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the broadcast media’s role in the…

     Now that Congress has a proposal before them to bail out beleaguered investment banks in the wake of the subprime mortgage fallout, there is one way to pump liquidity into the markets almost no one is talking about – cutting the financial…

Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children by Philip and Alice Shabecoff. Hardcover. 368 pages. Random House. List price $26.00.

     There’s a cartoon that ran in the New Yorker a couple of years ago. Two cavemen are…

      It was just a matter of time. Now that government has taken over services normally offered by private corporations as a result of the recent series of bailouts, environmentalists have proposed green building…

     After an unprecedented week of economic ups and downs, CNN’s “In the Money” reassured consumers that a doomsday Depression is far from America’s economy. In fact, the September 21 “Emergency Edition” proved to be a refreshing burst of…

    One of Sen. John McCain’s strategists called The New York Times a “pro-Obama advocacy organization,” on Sept. 22, and CNBC’s John Harwood just couldn’t understand why.

     That was just…

     No need to decide on your own; “NBC Nightly News” has already determined which presidential candidate has the best tax policy.

     The Sept. 22 broadcast offered in-depth analysis of the two presidential candidates’ tax proposals…

     All three broadcast networks have reported on the banking crisis that is threatening the stability of financial markets and the overall economy. But on September 22, the ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” used the…

     Last week, CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood estimated the crisis on Wall Street would benefit Sen. Barack Obama’s bid for the White House but on September 22, he suggested Obama’s race might outweigh that.

     If you are the CEO of a private company that fails, prepare to be scrutinized by the media. If you are the CEO of a government sponsored enterprise (GSE), you don’t even get a mention.

     In a September 19 “Good Morning America”…

     Has CNBC, the financial network of NBC Universal, become the funeral parlor of free-market capitalism?

     Rob Cox, a former Bloomberg South Europe…

     If you want to get people on your side of an issue, scare them by suggesting something is going to hurt their children.

     That’s the environmentalists’ strategy, according to…

     The news media could create its own encyclopedia of made-up economic indicators – sweater sales, Starbucks, McDonalds, puppy dogs and more – and NBC added a new one to the list September 19: Hershey’s chocolate.

     The “Today”…

     Leave it to ABC to air extreme examples of financial concern to cast doubt on optimism amid troubling financial news.

      While conservative economists have criticized the trend of government bailouts for troubled financial…

     Like a steamroller, MSNBC host Chris Matthews ran over Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., in an interview about Sen. John McCain, the GOP and the nation’s economic problems.

     The “…