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     To quote the Randy Newman song, short people “got little noses and tiny little teeth.” According to the November 13 USA Today, that might be “a disability” – and a costly one at that.

     Reporter Rita Rubin’s big story on little…

     The Washington Post came up with a new code phrase for rent control – “reasonably priced housing.”

     In an article bemoaning the potential “loss of middle-income housing – and…

     Voters in six states chose to increase the minimum wage on November 7, and CNN’s Lou Dobbs took the opportunity to tell business and conservative groups to wise up on the issue.

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     How will the new Congress handle world pressure on the “dire” threat of global warming? If the media had their way, the United States would give in and join programs that are proven failures – costing taxpayers up to $180…

     The frenzy about trans fats as dietary killers is escalating. Professors from the Harvard School of Public Health tell the media that trans fats kill hundreds of thousands of us annually and represent "the most dangerous ingredient in our…

     Christmas came early for the energy company TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU) – but not in a good way. The New York Times dumped coal in the firm’s stocking over plans to build 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas and indicted the firm for its part…

     NBC’s “Today” show served up fear for millions of American parents with its sensational coverage of a new study on school bus injuries. But in doing so, reporter Tom Costello left out just how safe school buses are…

     According to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the much-maligned Wal-Mart’s (NYSE: WMT) policy that its workers should report to work on time is a sign of how dastardly the company is.

     “Are you sometimes a little bit late for work…

     Just hours before unemployment dropped to a 5-year low and just five days before an election, CBS’s Katie Couric was warning about “jobs in jeopardy.”

    Couric, who also had…

     Minimum wage increases will be on the ballot in six states on November 7. PBS’s “Now” took the opportunity to push for broad increases on its October 27 edition, showcasing worker Melone Peyton, who doesn’t even earn…

     “Upbeat” sales numbers for General Motors and Ford were announced November 1, but the news was conspicuously absent from two of the three major evening newscasts.

     ABC’s “World News Tonight…

     It’s less than a week before an election and you’ve spent four years insisting housing market is a bubble on the verge of popping – jeopardizing the economy. What do you do? If you’re CBS, you raise the specter of the worst economic…

     Since the 2003 Bush tax cuts, the media have joined the chorus of Democrats in singing an “anti-tax cut” hymn. As another election looms, some of the singers have changed, but the song remains the same.

     “Three trillion…

     Watching TV can be torture. This close to the election, it’s even worse thanks to TV news.

     For more than a year, the networks told us almost every bit of good economic news was somehow bad. Now that they feel they have…

    Wages are growing at the fastest pace since the last election year, but USA Today spun that news negatively in its November 1 paper. Instead, readers got a unhealthy dose of inflation worries.

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     KFC announced it is cutting the trans fats from much of its menu, and the media celebrated not chewing the fat as “another giant step in the movement to make America’s food healthier.”

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     “Off they go into the wild blue yonder; climbing high into the sun.” That’s what a recent PBS segment might have you thinking about “skyrocketing” college costs. But recent evidence showed that college cost growth is…

     The latest “In the Money” was just another skirmish in CNN’s pre-election war on the U.S. economy – supplying an almost exclusively negative take on economic, health care, wages and education issues.

     Firing the first shot,…