“Gas prices are through the roof, why are you still driving?”
That might as well have been the cry from “World News Tonight” substitute anchor Kate Snow as she opened the July 10 broadcast.
The answer would be:…
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July 11, 2006
Young people are too busy buying scores of jeans to worry about socking away money for retirement, ABC’s Betsy Stark suggested to viewers in the first story in her “Money Trap” series on American debt. But Stark left out…
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July 10, 2006
Registered nurses, carpenters, and technical writers are unfairly reaping the spoils of the strong economy while hard-working dishwashers and janitors get the shaft.
That…
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July 10, 2006
Gas prices are on the rise again, but are they really just one penny below “all-time highs,” as CNN business reporter Carrie Lee suggested recently?
“Up 11 cents a gallon over…
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July 7, 2006
“It’s a financial storm without a shelter in sight,” reporter Mark Strassmann blustered on the July 6 “Evening News.” “Up and down its coast, Florida has an insurance crisis,”…
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July 6, 2006
Thousands of people may lose their jobs in a seaside resort town in New Jersey, thanks to a Democratic governor’s insistence on raising taxes. But CBS News left out the role tax hikes and wasteful spending played in its…
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July 5, 2006
Hollywood usually gets a pass from the media’s participation in promoting class envy, but NBC’s Michael Okwu found a way to attack A-list Hollywood celebrities: their voiceover work for TV commercials.
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July 5, 2006
Ah, the Fourth of July. Time for fireworks, barbeques … and stern lectures from the food police?
CNN’s Independence Day edition of “American Morning” gave viewers…
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June 30, 2006
The U.S. economy didn’t grow as strongly as the government first thought this winter. It did far better.
But of the three broadcast evening news programs on June 29, only the CBS “Evening News” picked up on the story. And…
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June 29, 2006
A June 27 Associated Press article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” might as well be titled “Gore Supporters Support Gore.”
The AP claimed to “have contacted…
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June 29, 2006
Detroit is finally wising up about its cars. It’s taking a smaller-is-better cue from Europe, CBS told viewers of the June 28 “Evening News.”
But reporter John Blackstone’s take on…
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June 28, 2006
TV journalists have been warning of “stagflation,” a bursting housing bubble, and even “recession,” but consumers are far more confident about the economy than journalists.…
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June 28, 2006
Are you enjoying The Balance Sheet? Forward it along to your friends who will, too! The Business…
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June 28, 2006
They wanted to sue over sodas in school, they even complained about 2 percent milk, and now they’re after fruit juices. But to the Washington Post, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is just another…
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June 28, 2006
The news media were singing the praises of businessmen this week because one executive did something many journalists support: He gave away most of his money.
Warren Buffett, founder of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and perhaps the…
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June 27, 2006
“Today we got more intriguing evidence that coffee can be good for you, with a new study that suggests it can cut your risk of Type 2 Diabetes,” ABC’s Charles Gibson announced in the June 26 evening newscast. But just a…
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June 26, 2006
Parade magazine wants you to push Congress for higher taxes. Just don't generate too much carbon dioxide on your way there.
Alongside author Eugene Linden’s alarmist June 25 article, “Why…
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June 23, 2006
Leave it to The New York Times to describe a Supreme Court ruling that will impose numerous costs on small businesses as “employee-friendly.”
In a June 23 article, Times reporter Linda Greenhouse praised a unanimous Supreme…
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June 23, 2006
“The Earth is running its highest fever in years,” teased NBC’s Brian Williams as he introduced the June 22 “Nightly News.”
CBS’s Bob Schieffer one-upped his younger rival with an even more alarming tease opening the “Evening…
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June 23, 2006
CNN’s Larry King isn’t exactly known for playing hardball, but his June 13 softball interview was the perfect game for former Vice President Al Gore to cap off his round of TV appearances on global warming. …
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