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Jeff Poor | April 30, 2007

     One CEO has embraced the idea of letting shareholders vote on his pay, and the “CBS Evening News” embraced him for it.

 

      “In one work day, America…

Dan Gainor | April 30, 2007

     Gas prices are high, but CNN wants them higher. Lots higher. CNN’s Allen Wastler told viewers April 28 that the government should increase the price with a huge new tax. “Put in a tax to make it $4 a gallon right now,” he…

Julia A. Seymour | April 26, 2007

     You can’t get much more ironic than wanting more funding for federal food grants for obese people. But that was essentially what Dr. Sanjay Gupta pushed on CNN “American Morning.”

     “WIC is on the chopping block,” said the CNN…

Julia A. Seymour | April 25, 2007

     ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” fanned flames of class warfare with a story about the high incomes of hedge fund managers, leaving out how much these individuals must be paying in taxes or how much profit they had…

Amy Menefee | April 25, 2007

     I’m a rare combination: a trained journalist who grew up understanding the value of guns.

     My dad taught me how to shoot and made sure I understood safety, my rights and my responsibility – namely, that the government wouldn’t…

BMI Staff | April 25, 2007
Media Blame Businesses in the Wake of Tech Tragedy Unwilling to stop at the Virginia…
Julia A. Seymour | April 25, 2007

     Last week after tragedy struck Virginia Tech and a gunman took 32 innocent lives, the media portrayed legal businesses as complicit in the murders.

     The media coverage quickly turned into a raging debate about gun control, with…

Dan Gainor | April 24, 2007

     How do you fix problems with government? With more government, of course. That’s the CBS strategy based on reported problems at the Food and Drug Administration. In a two-story effort, the network pushed for more legislation, more…

Kristen Fyfe | April 24, 2007

In his April 23 story, “Drawing a Line from Movie to Murder,” New York Times movie reviewer A.O. Scott turns a blind eye toward the evidence as he seeks to debunk people who argue that Seung-Hui Cho was influenced by the violence that pervades…

Dan Gainor | April 23, 2007

     Perhaps CNN’s “Open House” should be renamed to “Open Bias.” The April 21 show had host Gerri Willis issuing her own call for new mortgage regulations.

     In a short segment on the subprime…

Rachel Waters | April 23, 2007

     Would-be president Dennis Kucinich voiced “concern” over possible “$4 a gallon” summer gas prices and directed blame toward oil companies on CNN’s “In the Money.”

     Hosts Ali Velshi and Christine Romans lobbed softball questions…

Dan Gainor | April 23, 2007

     The headline read like a press release: “Democrats Craft New Tax Rules, New Image.” It might as well have been one.

 

     The April 23 Washington Post front-page story depicted…

Julia A. Seymour | April 20, 2007

     The Christian Science Monitor gave a green thumbs up to a recent EPA decision mandating emission standards for new lawnmowers. It downplayed one detail about the increased regulation – higher costs.

     “[H]elp is on the way.…

Julia A. Seymour | April 19, 2007

     “Good Morning America” weatherman Sam Champion gushed on April 19 in a report about an “eco-friendly” house and green home furnishings, but buried even the mildest mention of the costs.

     “There’s many simple, even money-saving…

Julia A. Seymour | April 18, 2007

     There is more than a few letters different between “silent” and “silenced.”

     In the case of “lost credibility” of “almost silenced,” climate scientists who disagree with Al Gore’s climate consensus, BusinessWeek gave the…

BMI Staff | April 18, 2007
Green Day(s) All Year 'Round No trees are dying for you to read…
Dan Gainor | April 18, 2007
     The answer to the old riddle “What’s black and white and read all over?” is a newspaper. The new riddle is “What’s black and white and green all over?”        Now it’s a magazine.        On newsstands today, you can find enough “green issues…
Julia A. Seymour | April 18, 2007

     Green activism is all the rage these days, with events taking up so much calendar space you might need a separate one just to keep track – just be sure it’s printed on post-consumer recycled paper, of course.

     Many of these…

Dan Gainor | April 17, 2007

     Even when its actions “create a tremendous number of potential conflicts,” The New York Times treats AARP with respect and softens any criticism by consulting only the group’s friends.

     AARP announced it will start offering…

Amy Menefee, Rachel Waters | April 16, 2007

     Guilty until proven innocent – that was the verdict for the student loan industry on CNN’s “In the Money.”

     The show’s anchors turned a story on investigation of college financial aid offices into a diatribe on corporate…