“Issue #1 is your economy,” CNN host Ali Velshi announced March 17, as CNN launched a new mid-day show focused on the issue polls show is the top priority for Americans in the election season. Since then, “Issue #1” has brought viewers “…
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June 18, 2008
“Good Morning America” slammed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) June 17 for “using combat vets as guinea pigs to test a controversial drug.” This report has already led to calls for congressional probes of the VA…
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June 18, 2008
Obesity may be unsightly to some, but it has a real impact on the environment and our use of gasoline according to one economist.
Dr. Richard McKenzie, a professor of economics at the University of California-Irvine and author…
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June 18, 2008
CNN Brings Negative View to 'Issue #1': The Economy
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economy is Issue #1. CNN has that much correct. BMI is
watching the networks new…
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June 18, 2008
“We’re going to scare you to death.”
That’s not the advertising slogan for “Saw XVII.” It might well be the motto of modern journalism. “If it bleeds, it leads” has always been a news motto. Somewhere along the way, news went…
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June 18, 2008
The blame game for the personal credit woes plaguing the United States has been played over and over again. But fault is almost always cast upon the same party: banks, not borrowers. ABC “World News with Charles Gibson”…
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June 18, 2008
In the media’s continuous quest to find a culprit for higher prices outside of market forces, the June 17 “CBS Evening News” set its sights on an oil trading market where “speculators can run wild.” This time CBS attacked…
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June 17, 2008
Searching high and low for someone to blame for contaminated tomatoes, CNN’s Lou Dobbs tried: imported produce; a “moronic” Food and Drug Administration; and finally, President George W. Bush.
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June 17, 2008
A year and a half ago, James Spann questioned the money and the so-called scientific consensus pushing the idea that mankind is causing global warming. Today, he says it’s losing steam. Two imminent surveys of meteorologists may further…
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June 17, 2008
For once, “CBS Evening News” gave viewers a break from seeing oil companies demonized.
At a time when gas has topped $4 a gallon and the media are looking for someone to blame…
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June 17, 2008
“How sweet it is!”
No, that's not the late, great Jackie Gleason roaring out his signature line from a nightclub in Miami Beach. It's the liberal media exulting over this weekend's homosexual “pride” celebrations and the advent of same…
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June 16, 2008
CNN’s money team is very concerned about high gas and oil prices, but the “biggest fear” of an economist on “Your $$$$$” wasn’t just that the prices would continue to climb.
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June 16, 2008
Every now and then, a little unbridled emotion can put some perspective on U.S. energy policy, and CNBC’s Jim Cramer delivered just that.
Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,”…
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June 16, 2008
Even financial journalists have found a way to promote a liberal social agenda, as CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” showed in a June 16 segment praising the California Supreme Court for legalizing same-sex marriage.
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June 16, 2008
With gas prices topping $4 a gallon and the idea of tapping into oil under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the Outer Continental Shelf becoming more popular, liberal members of Congress are changing the basis for…
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June 13, 2008
Another mainstream media outlet is taking another stab at solving high gas prices.
The latest incarnation appeared in the June 13 USA Today – evaluating what could be done…
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June 13, 2008
In case there was any doubt left about how CBS’s Dave Price feels about “going green,” he told viewers June 13 that it’s the “right way” to live.
“It is remarkable – you know, you can insulate your house, you can paint your…
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June 13, 2008
Wouldn’t it be nice to know how members of the White House press corps voted in the last presidential election in order to know where they’re coming from in their reporting?
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June 12, 2008
As gas prices increase, Congress is feeling more and more pressures from its constituencies to explore for oil in areas that are off-limits, including the Outer Continental Shelf and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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June 12, 2008
A foreign bid for the beloved Bud had “Good Morning America” fearmongering about international trade June 12.
For analysis of what an Anheuser-Busch buyout could mean, the ABC crew didn’t turn to a businessman or even to a…
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