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Amy Menefee | March 16, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 16, 2007

     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…

Dan Gainor | March 16, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 15, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 14, 2007

     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…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

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Introduction It didn't take long for the new Congress to try to increase government regulation of health care through mandated prescription prices. Less than one month after taking power, House…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

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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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 14, 2007

     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…

Amy Menefee | March 14, 2007

     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…

BMI Staff | March 14, 2007
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Rachel Waters | March 13, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 13, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 12, 2007

     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…

Julia A. Seymour | March 12, 2007

     ABC “World News Sunday” bashed Halliburton on March 11, this time for deciding to move its corporate headquarters to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The report accused the company on many levels but allowed just one short response to the…

Julia A. Seymour | March 9, 2007

     Seeking “cool solutions” to global warming, CBS “Evening News” wrapped up its three-part series with a look at “an ecological fantasy island” on March 8

     It was more of a liberal fantasy.

     The Mark Phillips report…

Dan Gainor | March 9, 2007

     At the very time baseball players were beginning Spring training, the nation was experiencing the 34th coldest February in 113 years.

     Must be global warming – at least according to Sports Illustrated.

     After all…

Julia A. Seymour | March 9, 2007

     Despite previous complaints about “outrageous” CEO pay, both NBC and ABC proclaimed “good news” about the increasing number of female billionaires on March 8.

     According to Forbes magazine, there are 946 billionaires in the…

Dan Gainor | March 9, 2007

     Sometimes a news outlet doesn’t even agree with itself. That was the case with CNN’s coverage of the latest unemployment news on March 9. Reporter Ali Velshi called it “good news” but CNN.com headlined the same news “weakest in 2 years.”…

Paul Detrick | March 9, 2007

     Should the United States put its faith in a carbon reduction plan that does not work?

     That was the question American Public Media (APM) asked in coverage of the European Union’s energy summit March 8.

     Host Scott…

Julia A. Seymour | March 8, 2007

     All three network evening news shows used extreme examples about “abusive” credit card company practices on March 7, but only one even suggested cardholders should make responsible choices.

 

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