Business

Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2005
     When teenage fashion habits are getting attention from congressional budgeters, even CNNs American Morning can expose pork-barrel spending for what it is.      Soledad OBriens segment on the…
Ken Shepherd | November 17, 2005
     Today what makes Governors great is not the loft of their dreams but the depths of their pragmatism, Time magazine gushed in its November 21 edition, praising five governors who can reckon with…
BMI Staff | November 16, 2005

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Dan Gainor | November 16, 2005
     The climate is changing right before our very eyes. Its not the weather Im talking about its the media climate.      On Sunday, November 14, Fox News set aside its status as the best network…
Ken Shepherd | November 16, 2005
     On the Nov. 16 American Morning, CNN business reporter Andy Serwer worried that Congress might not have the fortitude to go ahead with final passage of a new windfall profits tax on oil companies…
| November 15, 2005
     In his November 14 Washington Post column, Sebastian Mallaby released what must have been hours of pent up frustration about everything from inequality in the United States to legislators…
| November 15, 2005
     In his November 14 Washington Post column, Sebastian Mallaby released what must have been hours of pent up frustration about everything from inequality in the United States to legislators…
Ken Shepherd | November 15, 2005
     Stock up on your oatmeal and flax seed because CBS News this week is taking you on a road trip with junk food-resistant correspondent Mika Brzezinski. The road-tripping correspondent weighed in on an…
Ken Shepherd | November 14, 2005
     CNNs Jack Cafferty and Andy Serwer attempted to use the November 12 In the Money to bash fat cat corporate bosses raking in big profits. But while Cafferty and crew stayed on message skewering Big Oil on Saturday, their guest,…
Dan Gainor | November 14, 2005
     It began with all the hype of a Hollywood movie trailer. Flickering scenes of smokestacks, trucks and cars whizzing down the highway and dead fish in a stream were overlain with this ominous message: "The…
R. Warren Anderson | November 11, 2005
     CBSs Bob Schieffer offered viewers a solution to high energy prices that may be as plain as daylight. Yet the truth of the matter was far different and the November 10 report showed the network…
Noel Sheppard | November 10, 2005
     CBS wasnt alone. Headlines like The Dollars Decline Does Matter, Consumers Could Get Caught Under Falling Dollar, and The Dangerous Dollar were all the rage as Americas currency was…
R. Warren Anderson | November 10, 2005
     With oil executives testifying before Congress, the news media continued drilling the industry for high profits.      ABCs Good Morning America only found negative things to say about the oil…
BMI Staff | November 9, 2005

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Gary Wolfram, Ph.D. | November 9, 2005
     History has proven the efficacy of market capitalism in producing wealth for the masses. The fall of the Soviet Union, the movement of China and India to market economies, and the influx of immigrants…
| November 9, 2005
     The presidents bipartisan tax panel delivered a complicated proposal on November 1 that has been criticized and even denounced by members of both political parties. But that hasnt stopped the…
Dan Gainor | November 8, 2005
     Lou Dobbs and the Merry Men and Women of CNN promoted a windfall profits tax on oil companies that Dobbs nicknamed a Robin Hood Tax. Dobbs set up a November 7 story asking if oil companies should…
R. Warren Anderson | November 4, 2005
     Are vinyl lunch boxes a cause of concern for lead poisoning? ABCs Good Morning America warned that children might be poisoned by their lunches in its November 4 broadcast, despite government…
Dan Gainor | November 3, 2005

Filling up at the pump is costing less and less each day – 45 cents per gallon less since its post Rita peak of $2.94. Despite that huge drop, all three broadcast networks have reported on rising or high gas prices four times as often as falling…

| November 3, 2005
     On CNN Sunday Morning October 30, hosts asked viewers to respond to the question, Who do you hold accountable for high gas prices? Ignoring market forces that set prices in favor of playing a…