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     Need more evidence the old-time mainstream media are becoming relics?

     New York’s senior Democratic senator, Charles Schumer, told an audience the evolution of the modern…

     Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

     Fresh off of Bianna Golodryga’s “tidbits of good news” on ABC’s “Good Morning America” February 27, NBC “Today” show contributor Erin Burnett found her own economic “silver lining” February 29.…

     One day, Jim Cramer is playing cheerleader for the U.S. economy, the next he is playing cheerleader for the Democratic presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

     Cramer, whose position on the American…

     Guess what – the sky isn’t falling, it’s just coming to a “near” fall.

     Over the past couple a months, the Associated Press has filed many reports about the prospects of recession and the effects that just the scare of a…

     Finally, the media are connecting the dots and realizing the push for alternative energy is taking a toll on the American economy.

     The Labor Department reported on February 20…

     As the ceaseless recession talk continues, the language creep continues. Does it really matter whether it’s a “recession” or a “slowdown”?

     “It’s so much about semantics,” Burnett said on the February 28 NBC “Today” show when…

     As the economy has slowed and indicators have started showing signs of fatigue, historically negative media coverage has taken a turn for the worst, shifting from reporting on “recession” to all-out “depression.”

     On “60…

     There’s nothing scarier than reverting back to the days of yesteryear – when Jimmy Carter was president.

     But evoking the memories of the 1970s and stagflation is now a common theme in the media. A disappointing rise in the…

     Exploiting hot-button issues is the path to the White House and an increased majority in Congress according to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

     Dean, who was the keynote speaker for the Black History Month…

     Some in the media try claim that we are in the beginnings of a recession in an attempt to make the case for larger government intervention in the economy. It is instructive to consider an era when there was a truly severe economic downturn…

     Kudos to ABC’s “Good Morning America” and reporter Bianna Golodryga for illustrating that not all economy reporting has to highlight bad news.

     “[W]e keep seeing that there are some signs of hope out there,” host Diane Sawyer…

    Better safe than sorry must be ABC’s motto.

     Likening the threat of rising temperatures to the peril of nuclear annihilation, “Good Morning America” toured the recently opened “Doomsday Vault,” an underground ice fortress…

      “It’s the economy, stupid.”  How many times will we hear that line, originally uttered by Democratic operative James Carville in 1992, repeated this election cycle by the media?

     Already in 2008 it’s been used at least once on…

     Imagine being sent to a luxurious resort in Colorado to investigate a “posh” corporate event, but it gets canceled right before air time. What do you do? CBS covered it anyway.

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     Making predictions about the economy has been the thing to do as of late and energy prices are no exception. When the prediction is $4 gasoline, it should be taken seriously.

     But like many…

     Time magazine is at it again. This time, it’s going beyond unquestioning coverage of global warming alarmism to act as a public relations agent for a global warming alarmist’s campaign.

     A Time.com article by Bryan Walsh…

     The media continue to feature sob stories from rich families in stories supposed to illustrate the pain the housing “crisis” is causing for middle- and lower-income families.

     “Not since the Depression has a larger share of…

     Surprise – NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent and global warming alarmist Anne Thompson offered “Nightly News” viewers a variety of reasons why building a badly-needed coal-fired power plant in an isolated part of Nevada is a bad…

     In a shocking display of irony, a spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) presidential campaign told CNN February 22 that a federal mandate “doesn’t work.”

     “But when people talk about the federal government ordering me to…