Business

     It’s easy to be envious of those who make more money, but when you’re calling for government involvement based on that, you interfere with the American dream.

     The August 30 “…

     Want to know how to get on CNN these days?

     Make a music video in a grocery store with you and your sibling pretending to urinate on produce in a stock room, smacking each…

     It’s like a broken record – the same push for socialized medicine using misreported data from the same government institution. Only this time, the data used is more current.

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     You say you want a revolution?

     OK, you don’t, but the extremists on the left certainly do.

     A “green revolution?” A “health care revolution?” How about just a good, old-fashioned blood-in-the-streets kind of “…

     For the second straight night in a row, the CBS “Evening News” evaluated what falling home prices mean and it wasn’t good.

     “The prices of homes are falling and there is more evidence tonight that those counting on their houses…

     With bridges falling down, it makes sense to spend federal funds on infrastructure projects, but what doesn’t make sense is suggesting the government spend highway money on the obesity “epidemic.”

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     Meet the media’s newest coal industry expert Jeff Goodell.

     Goodell is consistently cited as a coal expert by the media, although he has no formal expertise or academic credentials in the coal business. Goodell is a…

   CNN’s “Your $$$$$” is the hip, fast-moving replacement for “In the Money.” But don’t bother to Google “Your $$$$$.”

   It’s not easily searchable. You get millions of results, but none obviously about…

     Leave it to MSNBC to help unions bash business and bosses.

     Anchor David Shuster actually outdid the union’s “My Bad Boss” contest with a comment about one pregnant employee putting “placenta” on pizza because her boss wouldn’t…

     The title for a segment about children’s health insurance on “World News” August 26 might as well have been “Bush Hates Uninsured Children.”

     “ABC’s Kate Snow reports tonight…

     In a recent blog post CBS’ Wyatt Andrews gushed about Massachusetts’ new health care plan that requires people to purchase health care. His take:

     “This isn't Clinton care;” Andrews assured his audience, “it's a huge…

     What’s a constitutional amendment among friends? Not much, if you are a liberal economist like Dean Baker. Baker wrote an August 20 piece on Commondreams.org urging Congress to eliminate foreclosures and let homeowners live in those houses…

     It is hard to miss the grim news about everyone losing his home from an inability to pay the mortgage. But what if the critical data in those stories were inflated?

     “Now we…

     News shows have highlighted a volatile stock market and housing concerns in recent months. But even when consumers have had reason to cheer – like a 44-cent-per-gallon drop in gas prices – the networks have misreported it…

     Imagine basing a country’s energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory – a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.

     The Big Mac McDonald’s Extra Value Meal – $4.75. A book bill for a semester of college – $450. Having the federal government subsidize your sexual behavior – priceless.

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     There’s no question there has been an uptick in foreclosures because of bad business decisions – primary the so-called NINJA (No income, no job or assets) loans made by some mortgage lenders. And there’s plenty of blame to go around.…

     “NBC Nightly News” attacked one airline on August 20 with a “summer travel nightmare” story and a comparison between airlines that ignored key differences.

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     With increased volatility in the stock markets, business coverage has been front and center for the major newscasts. But NBC has made an interesting choice of who’s reporting it.

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