Business
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March 2, 2006
Closing her feature, and the newscast, substitute co-anchor Diane
Sawyer concluded that laws there for the common good like speed
limits need a little wiggle room just to get through…
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March 1, 2006
See Executive Summary
Oil prices began to spike in 2005 and the news media eagerly criticized the “greed” of oil companies and their executives. Reporters complained about “jaw-dropping profits” or that oil firms were “taking spending…
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March 1, 2006
See Full Report
American media have covered the ports controversy with almost 24-7 dedication. But the networks have ignored a far bigger security threat. As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States’…
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March 1, 2006
The pounding waves and 165-mph winds announced the arrival of
Hurricane Hugo in September 1989. Hugo battered the East Coast,
costing $8 billion and taking 50 lives.
Now a new Hugo is…
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February 28, 2006
Four days after the Business…
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February 27, 2006
The February 26 NBC Nightly News treated a move by Wal-Mart (NYSE:
WMT) to expand health care benefits
as an opportunity to stack the deck with another attack on the
retail chain and a liberal…
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February 24, 2006
After Enrons collapse, the media frequently reminded the public of
political ties top executives in the failed energy company had to
the Bush administration. The same standard, however, wasnt applied…
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February 24, 2006
Pickens gave $165 million to Oklahoma State University (OSU), and
Mike Holder, the schools athletic director, made the decision to
invest the programs new money with a hedge fund headed by Pickens…
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February 23, 2006
Its turn-back-the-clock day in the mainstream media and on Capitol
Hill. While polyester and Depeche Mode are far from the rage in
Congressional chambers and newsrooms, an overzealous fear of foreign…
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February 23, 2006
The media are frequently cynical about the private sectors profit
motive, but when it comes to government schemes to rake in more
cash, the same skepticism often doesnt kick in. That was the case…
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February 22, 2006
Every class has that straight-A student who studies, aces all his
tests and wins all the academic awards. Other students start to envy
him, but the smart students try to learn from him. Hes just working…
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February 22, 2006
The February 13 Lou Dobbs Tonight program was the first cable news outlet to
report on Dubai Ports Worlds (DPW) pending acquisition of six U.S.
seaports, providing alarmist, biased coverage. Eight days…
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February 22, 2006
The Benefit Battle
Maryland passed a law aimed directly at Wal-Mart, and unions and the
media have been hailing it as precedent-setting and
groundbreaking, as CBSs Russ Mitchell and Anthony…
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February 21, 2006
CNNs got a fever, and the only prescription is more hype. Thats
the diagnosis a viewer of the February 21 American Morning could
draw from co-host Soledad OBrien clucking about the threat of an…
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February 20, 2006
Those free samples your doctor gives when youre sick are a symptom
of an amoral market-based health care system, argues a
left-leaning doctor. But to the crew of CNNs In the Money, Dr.
Jerome…
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February 20, 2006
Who needs NBCs coverage of Olympic ice dancing when CBS was
thrilling viewers with visions of Waterworld?
No, not the 1995 Kevin Costner clunker, but an apocalyptic 60
Minutes report awash…
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February 17, 2006
Greenlands glaciers are either growing or shrinking, depending on
which study you read.
The media took global warming off the back burner this
week to hype an isolated study showing…
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February 16, 2006
The day after Ben Bernanke testified for the first time as Federal
Reserve chairman before Congress, his textbook co-author called for
substantially higher taxes on gasoline. Robert Frank, a Cornell…
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