The broadcast networks just can’t get enough of the food police.
ABC joined in August 4 with a “Good Morning America” segment taken straight from a new report by the self-…
The broadcast networks just can’t get enough of the food police.
ABC joined in August 4 with a “Good Morning America” segment taken straight from a new report by the self-…
You have to give credit where credit is due.
On Aug. 3, 2007, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer lost his cool about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s reluctance to cut key interest rates. A year later, his comments…
The U.S. economy has just barely flirted with a recession, yet one business columnist sounded the death knell for entrepreneurial capitalism on August 1.
Pulitzer Prize-…
The media have made a habit of reporting record oil company profits with disdain rather than perspective; bitterness rather than accuracy.
That’s just how the July 31 “…
Just a couple shorts months ago, the media were preaching a doom-and-gloom scenario about the economic downturn – feeling a need to illustrate various ways of economic hardship.
BusinessWeek magazine even went as far as to…
Al-Qaida poses a bigger threat to the United States today than it did on Sept. 11, 2001, and the only way to prevent more attacks is to spend money on non-military international aid, according a July 31 speech by one-time presidential…
San Francisco isn’t a liberal bastion that is out of step with the rest of the country. That’s just all right-wing spin attempting to suppress any notion of the economic “fairness” of San Francisco, according to California Democratic…
Labeling the current economic situation a “recession” has been premature, but common among the media, in recent months. But a new poll shows more and more economists are predicting recession will be averted.
An article by John…
Many in the media gleefully proclaimed the second scheduled increase of the federal minimum wage last week, but few journalists correctly reported how many people would benefit or included economists’ criticisms of the…
Knocking off iconic cereal box characters in 2007 wasn’t enough for the self-appointed “food police.” Now they want characters like that to promote only healthy foods.
The July…
Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers.
“It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because…
Nearly 20 million American households utilize payday lending services to make an emergency car repair, cover a variety of other costs or avoid bounced check fees. Leave it to CBS to attack the legitimate, legal, and useful service.
…The Fix Is In, Part 1: Misreporting a Congressional Hearing
CMI's new Eye on Culture, “Media Big Guns Fire Away at Military's Gay Ban,” addresses the barrage of biased media stories that preceded a Congressional hearing on the Don't…
When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) took the role of Speaker of the House on January 4, 2007, the national average price of gas was $2.33 a gallon, according to the Energy Information Administration. Now the average price…
Leave it to the media over-dramatize an incident that was scary enough already.
That’s just what ABC’s David Muir did in a July 25 “Good Morning America” report on the Qantas…
After Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, global warming alarmists claimed greenhouse gas emissions had led to a season that had 22 named tropical storms. Recent reports raise strong doubts about those claims.
“Former Hurricane…
If only Congress would get its act together, all our current energy woes would be solved.
That seemed to be CNN’s take on the energy bill in a July 25 segment. CNN…
“[Europe] wants to see an [American] president committed to free trade,” cautioned CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour from Berlin, Germany, the site of a speech by presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama.…
Harry Smith, co-host of CBS’s “The Early Show,” warned viewers on July 25 that radioactivity what might be “lurking inside” their granite countertops despite the risk being close to “one in a million.”
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