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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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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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