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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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     As CNBC’s Melissa Francis explained, Democrats want to raise your taxes – but they don’t want to tell you about it.

     “President Bush’s tax cuts expire in 2010, and if the Democrats get their way, America’s taxes…

     Mike Strizki doesn’t get an electric bill, or a gas bill. He’s off the power grid, living in the first U.S. solar-hydrogen house.

     “It sounds promising, even utopian: homemade, storable energy that doesn’t contribute to global…

     Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez “does like this country” and is “passionate,” “dignified,” “intelligent” and loves coffee.

     That’s the conclusion of an ABC exclusive interview with a man who has threatened to shut off oil to…

     How many networks does it take to change a lightbulb?

     Two. “CBS Evening News” and ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” both excluded anti-regulatory opinions from segments about a coalition that wants to ban incandescent…

     Evening newscasts last night praised a new drug, Tykerb, calling it a possible “lifesaver” for women fighting breast cancer, but none of the reports ever mentioned the company that developed the effective new treatment.

     “A new…

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 Liberal Democrats have taken charge in Congress, and one of the top targets for their anti-business rage has long been the pharmaceutical industry. In their “100 hours” plans, Democrats tried to institute price controls…

     CBS and ABC heaped blame on lenders, rather than borrowers after a stock market slide yesterday was spurred by new home foreclosure numbers. Both networks lamented the problems of borrowers rather than blame them for taking out high-risk…

     Let there be no doubt where ABC’s Bill Blakemore stands on global warming. 

      “‘We have been spun by Exxon and Peabody Coal,’ Blakemore said, comparing the situation to the long-running effort by tobacco companies to create…

     In debt? Don’t worry, you won’t be blamed by CNN’s “In the Money” team.

     On March 10, the CNN show featured an interview with James Scurlock, maker of the new documentary “Maxed…

     A sure sign of spring is the launch of media hysteria about the increasing cost of gasoline.

     “Gas prices are not just creeping up again, they’re shooting up and we’re still a long way from summer,” said anchor Charles Gibson…

     You can’t win for losing – well, not if you’re Exxon.

     The San Jose Mercury News reported on March 11 that Steve Bing has revoked donations to Stanford University because of a partnership between ExxonMobil and Stanford, but…