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Amy Menefee | August 22, 2006

     It’s been just a week since Americans heard the last cries of “record high gas!” from the media. Now gas prices are dropping again, and selected news outlets have noticed.

 

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Dan Gainor | August 21, 2006

     The global warming debate can be awash with contradicting information – even in separate sections of the same newspaper.

 

     In the August 20 Washington Post, reporter Juliet…

Ken Shepherd | August 18, 2006

     Asking “Who is to blame for America’s obesity epidemic” among children, Ann Curry of NBC’s “Today” show introduced a condensed edition of a story to air later that evening on “Dateline NBC.” Reporter Stone Phillips went…

Ken Shepherd | August 18, 2006

     The “CBS Evening News” has found another corporate villain it says needs more FDA regulation: sunscreen manufacturers.

 

     But it was reporter Trish Regan who burned her audience…

Ken Shepherd | August 17, 2006

     The day after the government released July 2006 consumer price index (CPI) data, most media outlets portrayed the new numbers as a positive development, including the Associated Press. Yet The Washington Post gave a pessimistic slant to the…

Rachel Waters | August 16, 2006

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Al Gore has experienced a surge in media coverage this summer generated mostly by the release of his new film and book on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Even with the extensive media coverage – more than one…

Rachel Waters | August 16, 2006

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 In the heat of the summer the media talked up a storm about global warming. And the most celebrated “expert” on the topic was a man who received a degree in government, dropped out of two graduate programs (law and…

Ken Shepherd | August 16, 2006

     NBC’s Campbell Brown floated the image of a real estate “bubble” in a brief item on housing sales on the August 15 “Nightly News.” But not all economists are that pessimistic, and research by the Business & Media…

BMI Staff | August 16, 2006
Summer Rerun Global Warming Movie Makes the Media Hot for Al Gore All Over Again An Inconvenient Truth gave the media a convenient excuse to…
Ken Shepherd | August 16, 2006

     Out: the media showing homeless people scrounging for food in dumpster as an indictment of the economy under conservative presidents.

 

     In: the media showing middle class young…

| August 16, 2006

     It was the summer of love all over again. Only this time we didn’t have hookah pipes, tie-dyed shirts and the Doors singing “People Are Strange.” All journalists had was their love for one man – Al Gore – and this summer he and the media…

Ken Shepherd | August 15, 2006

     CNN’s Lou Dobbs attacked the federal government for overspending, heavy borrowing, and poor accounting practices on his August 14 program. Yet in doing so, the anchor actually praised a liberal Democrat criticized for his own spendthrift…

Ken Shepherd | August 14, 2006

     Being a news anchor isn’t rocket science. But a little bit of basic arithmetic couldn’t hurt.

     NBC’s Natalie Morales and CBS’s Julie Chen mistakenly told their respective August 14 morning show audiences that gasoline prices of…

Ken Shepherd | August 14, 2006

     Nearly two week ago, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested hard-line Communist Raul Castro really did have a soft spot for capitalism.

 

     “Raul has been in charge of the military and…

Ken Shepherd | August 14, 2006

     NBC’s Jim Goldman seized on BP’s (NYSE: BP) oil pipeline troubles to forecast significantly higher gasoline prices. But the estimate Goldman gave is at the more pessimistic end of the range that oil analysts are giving.…

Ken Shepherd | August 11, 2006

     The mainstream media, bolstered by liberal think tanks, already see global warming as caused by humans to be settled, incontrovertible science. Could the debate over the effect that immigration has on Americans’ jobs be…

Ken Shepherd | August 10, 2006

     What did a Happy Meal ever do to Melanie Warner? In March the Business & Media Institute showed you how The New York Times advertising reporter found nothing funny in humorous beer ads. Now she’s at it again, pooh-…

Ken Shepherd | August 10, 2006

     NBC swallowed claims from a study that criticized online alcohol vendors, though very few teens actually buy liquor online. What’s more, Chief Consumer Correspondent Lea Thompson failed to include any critics who would…

Ken Shepherd | August 9, 2006

     You’ve been eating healthy all week, but you could really go for a cheesy, greasy steak sub right about now. Forget about it, CBS’s “Early Show” warned its audience on the August 9 show.

 

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Dan Gainor | August 9, 2006

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By any measure, the 2006 Academy Award nominees were a celebration of liberal 'values.' They undermined traditional beliefs, celebrated homosexual or transsexual lifestyles and attacked whole sectors of the American…