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February 15, 2006
Boehner gave him a straightforward reply: Tim, we didnt. He
explained that the budget-reduction measure signed by Bush would
expand benefits for students, higher loan limits, lower origination…
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February 15, 2006
Since the early January Sago Mine tragedy, most media have generally
slanted coverage of the U.S. mining industry in a negative direction
focusing coverage on mining regulations as too weak, fines too…
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February 14, 2006
The New York Times has long made a habit of airing its disdain for
big cuts in domestic spending and soaring profits at major oil
companies. However, Edmund Andrews chose to reinvent the wheel by…
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February 14, 2006
CNNs Lou Dobbs has often made the Outsourcing of America a focus
of his nightly program, Lou Dobbs Tonight. But on the February 13
edition, Dobbs and reporter Bill Tucker went a step further,…
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February 13, 2006
The weekend before Valentines Day, CNN business reporters showed
their infatuation with class warfare as they courted a critic of
corporate pay scales. None of the In the Money panelists, however…
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February 9, 2006
In New Hampshire on February 8, President Bush gave a simple lesson
journalists could use. He compared slowing spending growth to
driving the speed limit, rather than cutting spending, which would…
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February 8, 2006
One of the most obvious dividing lines between old and young is the
ability to recall free television. To anyone who has grown up in an
era of cable and satellite TV, the concept of a handful of channels…
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February 8, 2006
President Bush, in his State of the Union speech, said America was
addicted to oil and the federal government would use billions of
tax dollars to pursue alternative energy sources. Rather than…
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February 8, 2006
After nine months of reporters such as NBCs Katie Couric prodding
women to eat low-fat diets to prevent breast cancer, a new
government study argues the hype was for nothing. Low-fat diets…
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February 8, 2006
ABC News did a series of stories in October 2005 called Loose Nukes
on Main Street, implying that terrorists could easily gain access
to nuclear reactors in the United States and the Nuclear Energy…
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February 8, 2006
ABCs Good Morning America asked two different guests if this plan
was just a pipe dream. Meanwhile, The Washington Post suggested
that this could have come straight from the mouth of Jimmy Carter…
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February 7, 2006
Ronald Reagan once famously said that a government bureau is
the closest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
When President Bushs proposed fiscal year 2007 federal budget hit…
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February 6, 2006
The media have ignored or downplayed the governments latest jobs
report 193,000 new jobs in January and the lowest unemployment
rate since July 2001 continuing a trend of misreporting on…
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February 3, 2006
U.S. coal mines have become safer over the past five years while
rapidly maintaining productivity and output, according to government
statistics. In fact, the U.S. coal industry is 136 million times…
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February 3, 2006
On February 9, the federal government announced that weekly jobless
claims hit the lowest average in six years a sign of job growth in
a strong economy. That night, none of the network newscasts reported…
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February 3, 2006
A newsworthy sound bite from a rock music idol on a pressing world
issue may be just the hook an evening news producer prays for, but
it doesnt excuse a lack of balance or thorough reporting. The…
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February 2, 2006
On Groundhog Day this year, newspaper readers may have had a sense
of dj vu reading about budget cuts in a narrowly-passed bill
which scales back increases in government spending. But instead of a…
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