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     Customer complaints are down about air travel, but you’d never know it watching either CBS or NBC. Both networks had April 2 reports about a new study that says “what a lot of frequent flyers already know – it has gotten…

     Al Gore says the earth “has a fever,” but Time magazine claims the planet is “thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness.”

     In the 44-page “…

     Leave it to “60 Minutes” to attack an entire industry for trying “to protect its profits.” That’s the summary of a more than 13-minute assault on pharmaceutical companies that ran on April Fools Day.

     But CBS wasn’t joking.…

     Global warming catastrophe is coming, according to “World News Sunday” on ABC, and The New York Times wants rich nations to spring for the costs.

     “Scientists say the world’s temperature will rise about two degrees in the next…

     Crime victims can’t catch a break. “American Morning” anchor Soledad O’Brien accused TJX Cos., the parent of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, of dishonesty in the March 30 broadcast after the company had suffered a massive data…

     The TV made them do it.

     It made them “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”

     CBS’s Katie Couric used the cereal slogan as she introduced a March 28 “Evening News” report. The nanny-staters were at it again, this time warning…

     Media coverage of housing is booming again. This time, it’s the Shocked and Victimized Homebuyers versus the Big Bad Loan Companies.

     As the subprime lending “crisis” has gone…

     “Freedom of Choice” was a song by the punk band Devo released in 1980. Today’s use of the term applied to union voting goes back to those same ’80s roots – back to 1984.

     George Orwell’s “1984.”

     Just like Orwell,…

     Amidst media coverage of Big Tobacco, one reporter has shown another side of the story – little tobacco?

     As the March 27 Wall Street Journal reported, those who want to quit smoking might try tobacco. Smokeless tobacco.…

     “World News with Charles Gibson” supplied a sad, syrupy story for viewers on March 24 as reporter Bob Jamieson warned of “A truly New England business that may one day disappear.”

     “But this year, the syrup season is ending for…

     In traditional “Daily Show” style, host Jon Stewart made a mockery of Al Gore’s extreme message to Congress that “the planet has a fever” during his March 22 program.

     “I see. So the planet needs Motrin?” responded Stewart.…

     Just one day after Al Gore testified to Congress about global warming, The New York Times printed a 2,247-word profile on a family striving to have no environmental impact for one year in order to write a book about it.

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     People pay a pretty penny for gasoline in the Golden State, so when gas prices are on the rise the media frequently point to California as the highest cost per gallon.

     “Let me show you what is the most expensive gasoline…

     Now that Al Gore has won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” he headed to Capitol Hill to perform before an even more important crowd: lawmakers who could pass legislation that would make energy unaffordable for many Americans.

     You won’t find a debate over global warming in the pages of Glamour magazine, but you will find “the woman’s guide to saving the planet” in its latest issue.

     Glamour’s April issue has an 11-page Earth Day section with more…

     Call it “Dancing with the Stars”: Global Warming Edition. Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards showed his best dance moves trying to avoid questions about how energy efficient his 28,000-square-foot mansion really…

     On March 16, CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim announced the discovery of “more evidence” of the “failure of the Bush administration’s economic and trade policies,” costing American workers jobs.

     “So simply put, this is yet another example…

     The student loan business might be taking advantage of college students, according to ABC “World News,” but viewers will just have to trust the network about the particulars.

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