Business
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March 23, 2006
Introducing what ABC called the end of 20th century industrial
America, anchor Elizabeth Vargas portrayed a cost-cutting move by
money-losing General Motors (NYSE:
GM)
and bankrupt…
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March 22, 2006
The end is near.
As near as your remote control, at least. All you have
to do is turn on, tune in and drop any pretense of news. CNN
Presents, the networks award-winning weekly…
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March 22, 2006
USA Today put its own negative spin on record home ownership
numbers, declaring in the March 22 issue that Fewer families can
afford a home.
Working with a…
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March 21, 2006
The first day of spring proved perfect timing for the CBSs Jim
Acosta to resurrect global warming as the villain behind last years
hurricane season, downplaying how hotly debated the matter is in the…
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March 20, 2006
Im amazed that Americans at this point are really fairly
unconcerned about bird flu and mad cow disease, the Bryn Mawr
alumna confessed, noting that a drop in foreign sales of Tyson
chicken has…
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March 17, 2006
On the St. Patricks Day Today show, NBCs Ann Curry asked
colleague Jim Cramer for his reaction to a new government report
showing consumer prices have jumped. The real numbers actually
showed…
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March 16, 2006
Asking if states pay too much to land job-generating foreign
investments like auto plants, ABCs World News Tonight found a
critic to sing a sour note about a plant Kia Motors announced it
will…
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March 15, 2006
Where
Do We Go from Dubai?
The headliners of Dubai ports stories
were politicians pontificating about national security. But who knew
that foreign…
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March 15, 2006
The media love stories about the gap between the rich and poor in
America. But they rarely explore that gap, why it exists, and what
it means.
It is an interesting question whether a…
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March 15, 2006
Sounding like a broken record, the media again are squawking about
record profits for oil companies in light of a new round of
congressional hearings on oil and gas prices.
Both CBS and…
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March 15, 2006
Raddatzs story followed, highlighting a day of high political
drama, closed White House meetings and deal-making.
It wasnt until the dust had begun to
settle the next day…
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March 14, 2006
What a difference three years and a microscopic virus make. In
February 2003, ABC featured critics who argued that duct tape
government officials urged people to buy couldnt fix everything.…
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March 13, 2006
Just in time for spring break, ABCs 20/20 bellied up to the bar
with two stories on women and binge drinking. The March 10 edition
was enough to frighten already worried parents about their college…
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March 10, 2006
As the port management controversy churned inside Washington, CNNs
Lou Dobbs and NBCs Chip Reid attacked a British firm that contracts
security services to the Department of Homeland Security. But they…
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March 9, 2006
On March 2 a major oil company operating within the United States
announced it would take steps to avoid reporting to the U.S.
government. But in the week since, none of the three broadcast…
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March 8, 2006
Avian
Flu: A Media Pandemic
The media are abuzz with the terrible
possibility of an avian flu pandemic. Even though cooked meat is safe to
eat,…
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March 8, 2006
Rather than a modern-day Paul Revere, Lou Dobbs sounded more like a
black helicopter conspiracy theorist as he warned viewers of his
March 7 program about the British owning American airports. But weeks…
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March 8, 2006
The potential for an avian flu pandemic is something were
constantly asked about at the American Council on Science and
Health. It doesnt help that headlines constantly blare about
deadly…
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March 8, 2006
OBriens prediction was a long way off. Total human deaths from
avian flu worldwide so far are slightly less than are killed on a
typical day in traffic accidents in the United States. That total…
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March 3, 2006
PARENTS BEWARE: If your kids wear roller skates, they may fall and
hurt themselves, and you might not be able to sue! That was
essentially the alarmist news flash CBS Early Show correspondent…
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