While the tragic death of nine Charleston, S.C. firefighters was still fresh on everyone’s minds, ABC’s “World News” used the incident to make a case for more government regulation by pushing for mandated sprinkler…
Business
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June 20, 2007
As if the media needed another excuse to push government-run health care and assault the fast food industry. Now they’re blaming two of their favorite issues for a reduction in height in the United States.
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June 20, 2007
Go green young man.
A twist on Horace Greeley’s famous advice is growing from a suggestion into a media mandate. Everywhere, they tell us, America and the world are “going green.”
It’s more than just a buzzword…
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June 20, 2007
Not only is global warming threatening civilization, it could threaten the $662 billion international tourism industry long-term according to the CBS “Evening News.”
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June 20, 2007
Environmentalism is hip, green celebrities are “very sexy” and saving the planet is “simple,” according to the media.
The deluge of celebrity books, films and even rock…
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June 20, 2007
Too
Busy Admiring Greens to Notice What They're Really About
Environmentalists…
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June 19, 2007
Socialism has its perks, according to BusinessWeek.
In the June 25 issue, Geri Smith wrote that “in some respects, business has never been better,” despite Hugo Chávez’s…
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June 18, 2007
Leading up to the June 29 U.S. release of Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” increased government health care programs are the common prescription in the mainstream media.
A June 17 “…
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June 18, 2007
The latest slant on student loans: private lenders essentially steal food off borrowers’ tables.
A woman who earns only $200 more a month than she pays toward her student…
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June 15, 2007
What does it take to be called a “New Action Hero” by Time magazine? A left-wing political agenda that includes global warming, publicly-funded stem cell research, radical gun control, government-subsidized housing or an…
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June 14, 2007
You know the scorpion that killed the frog in that old fable? According to Columbia Journalism Review, that’s Rupert Murdoch.
CJR, a magazine for “professional journalists…
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June 14, 2007
R.I.P. Toucan Sam (1963-2007). Chalk another victory up for the fat police.
CBS “Early Show” anchor Hannah Storm supported getting rid of the characters on June 14.
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June 13, 2007
ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” reported foreclosure statistics furnished by RealtyTrac, a commonly used barometer of the real estate market, on its June 12 broadcast. “Today we learned that more than 176,000 home…
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June 13, 2007
It used to be that you could buy a newspaper on the corner for a penny, a nickel or even a dime. Or the paperboy delivered it to your door, came around another time and collected a whole month’s worth for just a few dollars.
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June 13, 2007
Many baby boomers are planning a “late” retirement and CBS “Evening News” thinks that’s a problem. The June 12 report led viewers to believe boomers were being forced to work into and past retirement age, but that wasn’t…
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June 13, 2007
It’s graduation season again. Time for college graduates to go find jobs that will pay their bills, and for many that will include a student loan payment.
Student loans make a…
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June 13, 2007
Americans work hard for their money. Too hard, according to CNN. Even worse than even grovelling medieval peasants scratching the land to survive.
That conclusion came from reporter…
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June 13, 2007
Media
Exaggerate Student Loan 'Crisis'
Say the word kickback…
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June 12, 2007
CNN “American Morning” co-host John Roberts conducted an interview with the mother of a Staten Island teenage track athlete who died tragically in an apparent overdose of a well-known muscle soreness cream. The athlete’s…
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June 12, 2007
Michael Moore doesn’t need an advertising budget for his new film, “Sicko.” The media are doing a fine job getting out the word.
The June 12 “American Morning” featured almost…
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