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     If it bleeds, it leads. But if it doesn’t bleed, just pretend it does.

     That might have been what NBC correspondent Tom Costello was doing when seeking expert commentary on a segment about record-high oil prices and a Goldman…

     It’s not quite champagne wishes or caviar dreams, but supermodel-turned-mommy Cindy Crawford is now offering tips on how to live a more environmentally conscious life.

     Crawford appeared on ABC’s May 7 “Good Morning America”…

     He’s on the cover of magazines like Time and Vanity Fair and appears on TV regularly as the image of the environmental movement. Now the polar bear could be pounding a path to your door.

     Under pressure from environmentalists,…

     It’s doubtful John Lennon had profit entirely in mind when he staged a “bed-in” protest of war in Montreal in 1969 and recorded the infamous peace movement anthem “Give Peace a Chance.” But that’s what one witness to the occasion has in…

     Now that legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to open up a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil exploration, ABC’s “Good Morning America” went live on location to show the “untouched…

     Don’t expect to hear this reported on the your evening newscast, but according to new data, sea ice levels in the Southern Hemisphere are at 25-year highs.

     “On a global basis…

      Arianna Huffington, a pioneer of and cheerleader for the new media has abandoned traditional media standards.

      Huffington, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The HuffingtonPost Web site, said that listening to both sides for a…

     With food inflation growing at an ever-increasing rate, things may be bad. But they aren’t as bad as the “CBS Evening News” made them seem.

     Even with the…

     Weathermen can be wrong, and so can economic forecasts.

     The Labor Department reported May 2 that there were 20,000 jobs lost in April and the national unemployment rate fell to 5 percent from 5.1 percent the month before. But…

     The landscape of the American media is weakening because of a stronger international media, according to Newsweek’s senior Washington correspondent Howard Fineman.

     “What’s happening in the media is that it’s being globalized…

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     Who would refuse a tax break and lower gas prices?

     Maybe ABC News. The April 30 “World News with Charles Gibson” could not find a single reason to support a “holiday” on the…

     If you haven’t had your fill of global warming alarm, there could be even more coming to the Internet.

    Dr. Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel’s “climate expert,” according to Weather.…

     They may not have food to put on their tables, but at least Cuban citizens can text message about it now.

     CBS’s “Early Show” gave a fairly glowing report from the May Day celebration in Havana, Cuba, May 1, on changes Cuban…

     When the federal government announced April 30 that the economy grew in the first quarter of 2008, members of the media scrambled to find bad news to report. The NBC “Nightly News” found the Craigslist Indicator.

     “Even though…

     Think traffic in southern California is bad now? We haven’t seen anything yet, according to National Public Radio President Kevin Klose.

     Klose was a panelist at the forum “Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge” held…

     Coal. It's a four-letter curse word according to environmentalists and much of the news media. According to them, it is the "dirtiest fuel on earth" and is a bad choice even when more power is a necessity. It’s also the source of half the…

     It’s been 10 years since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. But the way it broke changed the way the news cycle functioned and has had a profound impact on the business of media.

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