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Jeff Poor | August 10, 2007

     The media have found their new poster boy to rail against the coal industry.

 

     MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” but with Allison Stewart filling in for an absent…

Jeff Poor | August 9, 2007

     Despite all the bombs thrown by media, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch was still able to work out a deal for the Wall Street Journal. But, journalists almost kept it from happening.

     “Murdoch…
Jeff Poor | August 9, 2007

     The “CBS Evening News” is really pulling out all the stops to make the push for socialized medicine, but they’re not being correct with their presentation of the facts.

 

     “It’s…

Jeff Poor | August 8, 2007

     Hybrid vehicles are all the rage these days.

 

     Even Paris Hilton is out promoting hybrid vehicles. “Tonight, I’m here,” said Hilton at BPM Magazine’s July party. “I came in a…

Jeff Poor | August 8, 2007

     Apparently being able to obtain a mortgage without a co-signer is more important to CBS than protecting against inflation.

 

     “Had the fed lowered interest rates, 26-year old…

Julia A. Seymour | August 8, 2007

     The tragic Minnesota bridge collapse on August 1 prompted the media to call for higher taxes and $1.6 trillion in spending – which would enlarge the very government that has failed to maintain U.S. infrastructure.

BMI Staff | August 8, 2007
Networks Use Bridge Tragedy to Build Support for Higher Taxes…
Jeff Poor | August 8, 2007

     With six miners trapped in a collapsed mine as of August 8, ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” used the crisis to take a few pot shots at the coal industry – all in the name of global warming.

 

Dan Gainor | August 8, 2007

     There used to be a delay between tragedy and people trying to capitalize on it.

     Used to be.

     But as terrifying and horrible as the I-35W bridge collapse is, it’s quickly become political leverage as tax-and-spend…

Jeff Poor | August 7, 2007

      Even something as natural as breastfeeding gets used by the media to attack business.

 

     The New York Public Hospital System has stopped offering samples of baby formula as…

Jeff Poor | August 7, 2007

     Point fingers first. Ask questions later – if you’re the “CBS Evening News.”

 

     As six miners remained trapped in a Utah coal mine on August 6, CBS attacked the safety of “retreat…

Jeff Poor | August 3, 2007

     You give an inch and they want a mile.

 

      Maybe that’s what the people at Icelandic Water Holdings are thinking now. The company based near Reykjavik, Iceland claims to be…

Jeff Poor | August 3, 2007

     The words “lucrative tax break” or “loophole” conjure up thoughts of dishonesty or underhandedness regarding the tax code. Perhaps that is what the Washington Post intended to do in its August 3 story.

 

Jeff Poor | August 2, 2007

     NBC continued to use the decline in the housing market as a scapegoat for any less-than-positive economic news  – whether it be a drop in the stock market, changes in currency exchange rates or the reduction in sales…

Jeff Poor | August 1, 2007

     Whenever the "NBC Nightly News” adorns the green NBC signature peacock in the bottom corner of a news report – viewer beware. It means a global warming story is coming.

 

     “…

Jeff Poor | August 1, 2007

     For a business reporter, you would think CNN’s Ali Velshi would have a grasp of market trends – especially with oil and gasoline prices.

 

     However, on “American Morning,” a show…

BMI Staff | August 1, 2007
Media Manic About Wage Increase The 70-cent minimum wage increase took effect on July 24 and the…
Julia A. Seymour | August 1, 2007

     The federal minimum wage went up on by 70 cents July 24, to the delight of liberal politicians and many journalists.

 

     CNN’s Ali Velshi greeted the change calling it “unmitigated…

Dan Gainor | August 1, 2007

     The scene is reminiscent of “Casey at the Bat.” It’s the ninth inning, two out and two strikes against the batter.

     Still, somehow, Rupert Murdoch smacks the ball out of the park with one crack of the bat. Murdoch’s months-…

Jeff Poor | July 31, 2007

     Gasoline prices have fallen again and you might figure this would be greeted with accolades – but that’s seldom the case on the CBS “Evening News.”

 

     “News that gasoline prices…