When most people hear the word “Enron,” they mentally complete the phrase by adding the word “scandal.” As reporter Lester Holt of NBC’s “Today” put it in a January 1 story, “Enron has been the poster child, if you will, of corporate…
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June 17, 2006
One of the hottest topics in today’s news is immigration, both legal and illegal. The discussion is focused on “solutions,” but perhaps we should begin with an examination of why immigration occurs. The kind of immigration that is…
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June 17, 2006
The three broadcast networks have focused growing attention on inflation recently – 42 stories since early May. CBS anchor Bob Schieffer declared on June 14 “Well, it is back, inflation, that is.” The following day, ABC’s…
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June 17, 2006
In the mid-1990s, aside from tobacco companies, Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) and its CEO Bill Gates were perhaps the media’s favorite corporate villain. Now he’s a media darling. On the March 3, 1998,…
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June 16, 2006
“We are the problem,” declared NBC’s “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer doing a stint as host for the SciFi network. Lauer was referring to mankind’s alleged misuse of planet Earth, but his comment better suits the media…
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June 16, 2006
Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When Its Rising Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed…
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June 15, 2006
Lauers SciFi Disaster Examines Our Lack of Future World wont end before more viewers subjected to Today co-hosts wacky predictions of doom.…
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June 15, 2006
CNN's '70s Flashback: Serwer Sees Specter of Stagflation But economy is performing strongly and inflation is well below 1970s…
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June 15, 2006
Summer of Gore Continues with Softball Game on Larry King Host lets Gore slam his talking points out of the park without raising…
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June 14, 2006
Recession
Never Recedes Far from News Comments
A few down days in the stock market
and the media turn to Mr. Reliable recession. Its not the first time…
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June 14, 2006
ABC Labels Litigious Food Police a Consumer Group Industry critic CSPIs lawsuit escaped critical review on World News Tonight…
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June 14, 2006
Recession Never Recedes Far from News Comments TV reports continue to raise the specter of economic troubles despite strong growth…
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June 14, 2006
ABC’s Charlie Gibson promised his June 13 “World News Tonight” viewers a look at “why a leading consumer group has a bone to pick over the fat in KFC food.” But that organization was none other than the Center for Science…
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June 13, 2006
PBSs Now Charged Up About Foul Play Killing Electric Car But in reality, only a few hundred sold, despite tax credits and…
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June 13, 2006
Gores Film, Lionized by Media, A Pussycat at Box Office Documentarys lackluster performance worse than Gigli, A Prairie Home…
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June 13, 2006
The June 9 “Now with David Brancaccio” could well have been titled PBS’s “Tin-Foil Conspiracy Theatre” as the newsmagazine looked at death of the electric car from the Michael Moore-like lens of a left-wing filmmaker.…
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June 13, 2006
Perhaps not since “Gigli” has a movie so highly anticipated by the media done so little at the box office. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” has been and still is being strongly promoted in the media, but as with the ill-fated Lopez-…
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June 12, 2006
USA Today Hypes Student Debt Loads Paper features grad student with more than double the average debt load of his peers.…
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June 12, 2006
As graduation season wound down, the June 12 USA Today alarmed readers with a look at the “growing number of college grads” who owe more than $100,000 in student loans. But even the article’s author briefly conceded that’…
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June 9, 2006
NBC Marks Death Tax Bills Demise with Democratic Zinger Anchor Brian Williams left out conservative talking points and studies…
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