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     Leave it to “60 Minutes” to find a negative development in a tide of American prosperity lifting all boats.

     “The Joneses, that mythic family America vainly tries to keep up…

     Has CNN’s reporting on food gone to the dogs?

     The audience of the August 5 edition of “In the Money” might suspect as much. On that program business contributor Andy Serwer…

     The CBS “Evening News” recently hinted that more regulation, not less, is needed to improve the nation’s electrical grid.

     Reporter Trish Regan’s August 3 story displayed a…

     Are you a Republican politician yearning for approval by The Washington Post? All it takes is standing up for tax increases or for hiking the minimum wage.

     In separate articles in the August 3 Post, reporters Jeffrey Birnbaum…

     As Congress debated sending a minimum wage increase to President’s Bush desk for signing, ABC’s Betsy Stark promised “A Closer Look” at the issue but delivered anything but.

     In her August 2 “World News Tonight” story, Stark…

     “Stop and drop those tongs,” because salads might not be good for you after all, warned NBC’s Campbell Brown as she teased a “Today’s Consumer” segment on the morning show’s August 2 program.

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     “Well, that noise you hear may be the sound of a bubble bursting,” said NBC’s Natalie Morales on the July 21 “Today” show. Or it could be reality pricking the hyper-inflated predictions of a bubble-happy media.

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     The news media have been living in a bubble since before 9/11. Despite facts that indicate the market is cooling as many experts had expected, journalists insist there is a housing crisis.

     It’s unsurprising that the home market…

     Raul Castro: a free enterprise-friendly Communist?

     That’s how NBC’s Andrea Mitchell portrayed the 75-year old brother of Cuba dictator Fidel Castro in her report on the August…

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     As sure as the sun rises in the east, when a heat wave engulfs the continental United States, it dawns on the media that “global warming” may be to blame. Such was the case with CBS’s Bob Orr on the July 31 “Evening News…

     The CBS “Evening News” may want to change its theme music to R.E.M.’s “End of the World As We Know It.”

     Nearly two months into a quiet hurricane season, CBS’s Michelle Miller alarmed viewers of the July 30 broadcast with…

     It’s not every day a politician calls for a 100-percent tax rate on national TV. Even the most liberal-friendly of journalists would be inclined to question such a punitive idea. But when former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich called…

     What’s next, a “Dateline NBC” sting operation to snag Toucan Sam?

     Basing her story on a July 19 study by the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC’s Lisa Stark offered the…

     Last week White House officials announced that the current year’s budget deficit estimate had shrunk by more than 25 percent, to $296 billion. The fiscal picture has brightened due to a surge in revenues from the ongoing economic expansion…

     A new batch of real estate data gave the media a chance to pull out its recipe for half-baked reporting on the housing market.

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    OK. Who outsourced Lou Dobbs’s dictionary to China?

     That has to be the only explanation for why CNN’s resident anti-free trader Lou Dobbs claimed a guest critical of the Bush administration’s trade…

      Gas prices at an “all-time high” was the attention-getting tease from the July 24 “Today” show. NBC used it to promote a segment on saving money by switching from premium gas. But it wasn’t premium coverage. Regular…

     It’s a slow news day and you’re an environment reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. What do you do to kill time before your bicycle ride home? If you’re The Washington Post’s Michael Grunwald, you might pen a…