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Ken Shepherd | 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…
Dan Gainor | March 1, 2006

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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…

Dan Gainor | March 1, 2006

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 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’…

BMI Staff | March 1, 2006

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Dan Gainor | 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…
Ken Shepherd | February 28, 2006
     Four days after the Business…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Amy Menefee | 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…
Charles Simpson | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
BMI Staff | February 22, 2006

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Herman Cain | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Amy Menefee | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…
Ken Shepherd | 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…