Business

BMI Staff | February 21, 2007
Rich Man, Poor Man My boss makes more money than I do. Is that fair? BMI takes a look at income inequality, an issue the media cant leave alone. President…
Herman Cain | February 21, 2007

     I’m an American, and I believe passionately in freedom. I believe in the individual pursuit of happiness. So it troubles me when my president wants to take that away and starts sounding like a socialist.

     In a socialist…

Ken Shepherd | February 20, 2007

     Five days ago, Diane Sawyer promised viewers they could wake up to ABC’s morning program to find her and her colleagues “taking your case” to insurance companies “and getting answers” about unresolved Hurricane Katrina…

Ken Shepherd | February 19, 2007

     A new study by the Autism Genome Project (AGP) chalks up the disease’s primary cause to genetics, not environmental pollution, ABC’s Bill Blakemore reported on the February 18 “World News.” But in 2005, media outlets including ABC showcased…

Rachel Waters | February 19, 2007

     CNN’s “In the Money” crew placed the blame on corporate America for a lack of diversity in the workplace in its February 17 show, saying businesses have a long way to go on something “so simple.”

     The segment featured two…

Julia A. Seymour | February 17, 2007

     Cancer.

     The word understandably provokes emotional response and ABC “World News with Charles Gibson” was banking on it when they misled viewers in a one-sided story during the February 15 broadcast.

     Anchor…

Dan Gainor | February 16, 2007

     Whoever said you can lead a horse to water but can’t make him drink never met the America media. Since Al Gore’s announcement of worldwide concerts to combat climate change, journalists have been swallowing Gore’s claims that it’s purely a…

Ken Shepherd | February 15, 2007

     Treating homeowner insurance as a right rather than a business contract, ABC’s “Good Morning America” slammed insurance underwriter State Farm for its decision to stop selling new policies to homeowners in Mississippi.…

BMI Staff | February 14, 2007
This Valentine's, Diamonds Have It Rough "Blood Diamond" is just the latest in the category of business-bashing Oscar nominees. During this Academy Award…
Julia A. Seymour | February 14, 2007

     Cubic zirconia instead of diamonds?

     To hear the media tell it, that’s what the amorous should be giving their sweethearts this Valentine’s Day – thanks to a media obsession with “human suffering” highlighted in the Oscar-…

     After making a brief appearance in 2005 and spending 2006 in the wings, Social Security reform took center stage again last week with the inclusion of “personal retirement accounts” in President Bush’s budget proposal.

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Ken Shepherd | February 14, 2007

     A prominent businessman sold stock days before it took a dive, and congressional Democrats are pushing for an investigation, But the Washington Post’s February 14 report emphasized political posturing by congressmen and left out facts the…

Ken Shepherd | February 13, 2007

     The day after President Bush’s economic advisers released their official 2007 economic forecast – a story shunted to page C3 – The New York Times cast a pall on the economy, comparing current events to the economy of the pre-dot-com crash…

Amy Menefee | February 12, 2007

     “Consider the case closed on global warming.”

     That’s how Bryan Walsh started his Time magazine feature in the February 19 issue, the latest attempt by Time to close the debate on global warming. Last year, the April 3 issue…

Ken Shepherd | February 9, 2007

     Is meeting a former vice president a religious experience? Devout global warming believer and CBS reporter Harry Smith seemed to think so.

     A week after foreseeing Miami as the next lost city of Atlantis, CBS’s Harry Smith…

Ken Shepherd | February 9, 2007

     It’s not a difficult concept. When you’re a newspaper reporter documenting a new government-imposed burden on business, you find supporters and critics of the rule. It’s business journalism 101. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Patrick Kerkstra…

Ken Shepherd | February 8, 2007

     Sounding more like a screenwriter for “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” than a business magazine contributor, Fortune’s Marc Gunther scripted energy company TXU as an enemy of Earth in his February 5 article.

     Gunther wrote…

Ken Shepherd | February 8, 2007

     Has CNN’s “American Morning” gotten its fill of the “obesity epidemic” hype? Maybe not, but on two separate occasions in the past few days, the program’s reporters have scoffed at candy makers’ and schools’ attempts to keep kids from…

Ken Shepherd | February 7, 2007

     ABC’s Jim Avila injected his own negative attitudes into his report on a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) on February 6.

      “Next for Wal-Mart, attorneys will appeal to anyone who will listen, from the full…

Ken Shepherd | February 7, 2007

     When it comes to featuring storylines that bash American business, a 2006 Business & Media Institute (BMI) study found NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” (SVU) one of the prime offenders. Now the gritty crime drama is…