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     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,…

     When is a company earning too much? According to ABC, that’s when it is doing better than the tiny country of Iceland. ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” on October 26 used that unusual comparison to state that Exxon…

     If NBC’s Carl Quintanilla is in a bind about what to wear to the NBC News Halloween party, he could always go as a “housing bubble.”

     With only five days until Halloween, NBC “…

     CNN is no “CSI,” but its reporters and anchors keep declaring things dead. They’ve called the American dream “impossible” and “a lost cause” and said the middle class is “in crisis” or going “out of business” – all in the month of October…

     Jesse Williams started smoking as a 21-year-old soldier in Korea in 1950. Though Williams was taught as a child that it was unhealthy to smoke, and, in turn, taught his children not to smoke, he refused entreaties from doctors and family to…

     Less than two weeks before the November elections, an NBC “Today” show co-host asked, “are we being manipulated” by falling gas prices. Reporter Carl Quintanilla dismissed the idea but still cast “Big Oil” and…

     Gas prices hit their lowest point since January and the Dow Jones closed on yet another record high, but on the October 24 evening newscast CBS’s Katie Couric colored her business briefing in red, focusing on Ford Motor Company’s (NYSE: F)…

     It’s basic economics: if demand for something goes up, so will the price – especially if the supply is limited.

     The number of available airplane seats is limited approaching…

    It took 31 years, but Newsweek magazine admitted it was incorrect about climate change. In a nearly 1,000-word correction, Senior Editor Jerry Adler finally agreed that a 1975 piece on global cooling “was so spectacularly wrong…

     The Dow Jones Industrial Average set an all time record on October 19, closing a few points about 12,000. Yet only ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” led the newscast with the news, while CBS’s Katie Couric dismissed…

     T-Rex. The Dodo bird. The middle class?

     According to many CNN anchors and reporters, the extinction of the middle class is looming, and “In the Money” advanced the theory on…

    “Freshman 15 down to just 8,” blared an October 23 USA Today headline. But reporter Nanci Hellmich still found an appetite for worry about college students’ eating habits in her Life section article.

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     Conspiracy theories involving Republicans and “Big Oil” are more newsworthy to The Washington Post than an international oil cartel’s moves to pump up prices.

     While The Washington Post recently highlighted in its Business…