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     On paper, it’s a match made in heaven. The proposed marriage of the business-savvy Wall Street Journal and the savvy businessman Rupert Murdoch was celebrated by investors and denounced by journalists.

     Cuba’s a great place to live and visit – that’s the word in the media.      

     With Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” a film that glorifies the Cuban health care…

     American taxpayers have a moral obligation to make sure all children – the “most vulnerable members” of society – have insurance, according to ABC “World News Sunday.”

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     Offer any skepticism of global warming and the media quickly line up experts to discredit you.

     That’s exactly what happened on “World News with Charles Gibson” on May 31.…

     The tuberculosis scare led all three major network news broadcasts on May 31. But CBS “Evening News” pointed fingers at one of the network’s favorite targets, the pharmaceutical industry.

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     With Al Gore’s global-warming-hysteria “Live Earth” concerts looming, the May 31 issue of The Washington Post reflected upon a similar effort in the late 1970s. In 1979, David Fenton organized an event call “No Nukes,” a…

     Gas prices are declining, but you wouldn’t know that by watching network news.

     The May 30 edition of the USA Today reported gas prices were dropping according to two major…

     It’s déjà vu all over again. Rising gas prices and oil companies’ “record profits” fuel an almost yearly call for investigations into “price gouging.” The media then complain of alleged wrongdoing and fail to ask…

     They say even a broken clock is right twice a day. The mainstream media aren’t quite that good when it comes to gas prices.

     It took them 26 years to get it right. Rip Van Winkle woke up in less time.

     March 1981,…

     Health insurance is one of the main issues for the 2008 presidential race, and CBS has started its left-leaning coverage early – timing it with the beginning of hype about Michael Moore’s new health insurance movie, “…

     “American Morning” featured all manner of climate calamity.

     The May 23 edition of CNN’s morning show included a segment about the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

     What’s on your menu this Memorial Day weekend?

     If you thought about grilled steaks, barbequed chicken, burgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato salad, deviled eggs, chips, cake,…

     Global warming must already have fried our brains. George Bush and the Congress can’t wait to pour more subsidies into corn ethanol. Indonesia is clearing tropical forest to grow palm oil for Europe’s diesel engines. Canada is about to…

     “We’re starting with a story that affects hundreds of thousands of Americans because a new study out today says a drug they take increases their chances of having a heart attack and dying,” said anchor Katie Couric on the…

     Score one for the ol’ American Dream.

     Many news reports had been telling us it was dead. But the May 21 USA Today offered some hope – and a brand new spin on the class warfare…

     The book “Silent Spring” set in motion the banning of DDT and needlessly cost millions of lives. The Washington Post chose to mark author Rachel Carson’s 100th birthday by barely mentioning that her actions “have remained…

     Only a network anchor could think that earning nearly four times the median household income is “modest.”

     That was CNN “American Morning” anchor John Roberts’ take on Sen. Barack Obama’s (…