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Jeff Poor
Jeff Poor | June 18, 2007

     The latest slant on student loans: private lenders essentially steal food off borrowers’ tables.

 

     A woman who earns only $200 more a month than she pays toward her student…

Jeff Poor | June 15, 2007

     What does it take to be called a “New Action Hero” by Time magazine? A left-wing political agenda that includes global warming, publicly-funded stem cell research, radical gun control, government-subsidized housing or an…

Jeff Poor | June 14, 2007

     You know the scorpion that killed the frog in that old fable? According to Columbia Journalism Review, that’s Rupert Murdoch.

 

     CJR, a magazine for “professional journalists…

Jeff Poor | June 14, 2007

     R.I.P. Toucan Sam (1963-2007). Chalk another victory up for the fat police.

 

     CBS “Early Show” anchor Hannah Storm supported getting rid of the characters on June 14.

Jeff Poor | June 13, 2007

     ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” reported foreclosure statistics furnished by RealtyTrac, a commonly used barometer of the real estate market, on its June 12 broadcast. “Today we learned that more than 176,000 home…

Jeff Poor | June 13, 2007

    Many baby boomers are planning a “late” retirement and CBS “Evening News” thinks that’s a problem. The June 12 report led viewers to believe boomers were being forced to work into and past retirement age, but that wasn’t…