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     CBS News veteran Harry Smith finally confessed something that the Business & Media Institute (BMI) have reported for a while and his colleagues elsewhere in the media have already picked up on: gas prices are on a…

     What a difference three days make. 72 little hours.

     In that time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after inflation.

     “Gee, I’d love to be fair and balanced, but I tried even less than I did two days ago.”

     That’s what CNN’s Ali Velshi might as well have said in his August 30 story on “American…

     Labor Day isn’t just a holiday. It’s one more chance for the media to bemoan the state of the American worker. This isn’t a case of glass half full or half empty. In the news, there isn’t any glass at all – it’s been outsourced to Asia.…

     How’s the American worker doing on this Labor Day weekend?

     According to network news, he’s either about to get laid off or he’s just languishing at his current job.

     Recent coverage of work has leaned heavily…

      Happy with the falling prices at the pump? Fuhgeddaboudit!

     That’s what economic wiseguy Matt Lauer suggested to viewers of the August 30 “Today” show, even though oil…

     “We’re working ourselves to death,” Diane Sawyer concluded from a new University of California study on blood pressure and work. But the “Good Morning America” host left out some key information in her August 29 interview with a…

     “Life’s got to be a little better if gas is going down,” in price, teacher Lisa Craig told reporters in an August 29 Washington Post article on falling gas prices. But while Post staff writers Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Chris Kirkham found…

     CNN’s Allen Wastler recently dialed up pro-regulation rhetoric in a rant against Verizon (NYSE: VZ). “These telecoms. Somebody ought to regulate them, huh?” a nearly apoplectic Allen Wastler asked his colleagues as he…

     With a tropical storm threatening Florida and the one-year anniversary of Katrina approaching, CNN’s August 28 “American Morning” kicked off a weeklong look at “Red Tape and Rubble” in the Gulf Coast. But Ali Velshi’s…

     Perhaps it’s a symptom of a strong economy and a high standard of living, but often the media find negative angles to technology that makes our lives, and our work, easier.

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     Noting the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s formation in the Atlantic Ocean, anchor Brian Williams promised his audience a look at “a sore spot for many homeowners, insurance.”

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     It’s nearly one year after Katrina and so far the 2006 hurricane season has been a quiet one. But that fact didn’t surface once in Hannah Storm’s August 24 “Early Show” interview with global warming alarmist Mike Tidwell…

     What goes up must come down. When you’re comparing lower prices to record highs, it’s difficult not to see a drop.      

     Unfortunately, media reports continue to ignore the fact that comparing current housing prices to the…

     A computer glitch that dramatically lowered the price at the pump to one-tenth its value gave NBC’s Brian Williams an excuse to launch into a populist anti-oil industry diatribe.

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     “If you can see the ocean, the ocean can see you.” So said Julie Rochman, who saw her Florida condo destroyed by a hurricane years ago.

     “Hope for the best and deal with…

     Since Hurricane Katrina, the broadcast networks have linked global warming to more intensive hurricanes, treating higher ocean temperatures as “high-octane fuel.” Yet they have ignored the cooling waters of the Atlantic…

     Paul Leonard did not buy flood insurance, but through his attorney, Dickie Scruggs, filed a lawsuit arguing that Nationwide Insurance should cover his losses from Hurricane Katrina regardless of what his insurance contract said.