Business
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April 13, 2006
The medias concerted push on climate change continues with Vanity
Fairs first ever Green Issue.
The special editions release in mid-April is hardly
accidental, with Earth Day coming up…
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April 12, 2006
See Executive Summary
When is a dollar a taxpayer dollar? A. When it’s paying for stem cell research. B. When it’s going to the military in Iraq. C. When it’s supporting public education. D. When it’s aiding sick…
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April 12, 2006
See Full Report
Tax dollars are all the same to the taxpayers who part with them. But the broadcast media have different standards for different dollars. Often, government programs that fit a liberal agenda get the more benign label of “…
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April 12, 2006
Taxation
with Misrepresentation
A tax dollar by any other name spends
as sweetly, but the networks dont always call attention to the fact
that Joe…
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April 12, 2006
While ABC and NBC presented viewers with many of the reasons for the
rising cost of gasoline, CBS ignored the link between Irans push
for nuclear power and rising oil prices. Instead, the network…
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April 11, 2006
Once again Wal-Mart is under attack by interest groups hoping to use
government to gum up its business operations. And once again, the
media are focusing on the stores critics while downplaying the…
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April 10, 2006
A New York Times reporter who called recent corporate layoffs worse
than the Great Depression was the papers choice to write about the
positive job growth in the economy…
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April 7, 2006
The April 7 network morning news programs ignored data on dropping
jobless claims and a rise in consumer confidence, which point to a
strong economy. NBC, meanwhile, gave short shrift to a nearly 5-year…
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April 7, 2006
Continuing the media assault on profitable businesses, CBS News
attacked the insurance industry for record profits in 2005, a year
also beset by heavy hurricane damage claims…
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April 5, 2006
Paris
When It Sizzles
As French protesters clash with riot police, Americans
arent getting the full story from U.S. broadcast media. Journalists…
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April 5, 2006
The youth of France are faced with unemployment rates that parallel
those of the general U.S. labor force during the Great Depression,
with about one out of five people aged 18 to 25 unable to find work…
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April 5, 2006
Imagine being fined by your state government for not buying
something you choose to avoid purchasing. It may sound crazy, but in
Massachusetts it may soon be the law.
A bill awaiting…
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April 5, 2006
The First Employment Contract (CPE is its French abbreviation),
signed into law April 2 by President Jacques Chirac, eases
restrictions on employers. It allows them to fire workers under the…
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April 4, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezs offer of subsidized heating oil
to the frosty northeastern United States this past winter was met
warmly by the broadcast media. But network interest in Chavez turned…
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April 3, 2006
It was dj vu on ABC News as World News Tonight
repeated
a February 24 New York Times attempt to discredit philanthropist
Boone Pickens. Reporter Brian Ross even used the same…
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April 3, 2006
The current issue of BusinessWeek
conceded what the Business…
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March 31, 2006
Following on the heels of Time magazines alarmist
cover stories on
global warming, this weekends release of Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
has given movie reviewers for major newspapers a…
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March 30, 2006
When environmentalists want regulation, its never enough. And the
media are often willing to give them the spotlight.
New fuel efficiency regulations have the media going…
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March 29, 2006
March
Madness: Full-Court Press on Global Warming
Its Time and ABC, and other media
outlets promoting the threat of manmade climate change. Theyre pushing…
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