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Dan Gainor | March 29, 2006
     Its Time for the end of the world.      Its also ABC, CNN, CBS and Newsweek, all promoting a climate disaster that would end the world as we know it raising sea levels…
Ken Shepherd | March 29, 2006
     The New York Times has found another example of corporate evil to fight: funny beer ads.      Citing left-wing advocacy groups, Times writer Melanie Warner penned a…
Amy Menefee | March 29, 2006
     Behind a cover that read, Be Worried. Be Very Worried, Time informed its readers: in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. That was a common assumption…
Ken Shepherd | March 28, 2006
     CNNs Lou Dobbs is always pontificating about national security, especially when it comes to international trade but on March 27 he was frowning on an extra port security measure…
Ken Shepherd | March 27, 2006
     Starting off a weeks worth of in-depth reporting on global warming, World News Tonight falsely presented a liberal journalist and author as a Pulitzer Prize winner…
Ken Shepherd | March 27, 2006
     I hope gas prices go as high as they have to go to get the rest of these morons off the road in these big Hummers, CNNs Jack Cafferty exploded on the March 25 In the Money.     …
Ken Shepherd | March 24, 2006
     Professor Jonathan Overpeck once complained journalists were too concerned about balance in global warming stories. Now hes the centerpiece of two one-sided reports based on his predictions of…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Dan Gainor | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
BMI Staff | 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…
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D. | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Amy Menefee | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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.…
Ken Shepherd | 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…