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     What to do about all those wealthy people? Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has some ideas.

     Reporter Jeremy Grant conducted an interview with Frank that appeared in the September 1…

Editor’s Note: On May 10, 2007 Business & Media Institute wrote that “World News with Charles Gibson” hypocritically reported on two individuals’ carbon footprints, by presumably flying its crew to San Francisco for the segment. Recently, BMI…

     “[I] don’t know how big of a helping hand it was when you’re…

     With a half hour every evening, the competitive evening newscasts – ABC “World News with Charles Gibson,” “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” – have to make the most of their broadcasts to give viewers the most news…

     Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has proposed a solution to the subprime problem and its affect on the stock market – more regulation.

     “The implosion of the subprime…

     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…