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Jeff Poor | May 7, 2009

We were told all throughout the 2008 presidential campaign and on up into the debate over the stimulus that the way out of the current economic malaise is through growing a green economy. “NBC Nightly News” is still on message.

 

Jeff Poor | May 6, 2009

Strike while the iron is hot from the flames of populism. That mixed metaphor might explain the timing of the Obama administration’s announcement of anti-corporate changes he would like to make to the tax code.

The administration’s…

Jeff Poor | April 29, 2009

Once again, in its quest for a scapegoat for a crisis facing society, the media has set its sights on a large corporation.

 

A segment by ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman, reporting from La Gloria, Mexico, went after Smithfield…

Jeff Poor | April 28, 2009

Some financial indicators took somewhat of a shock over swine flu fears on the first day after the swine flu fears were realized.

 

“But on Wall Street today and overseas, travel-related stocks took a beating over flu fears,”…

Jeff Poor | April 27, 2009

The swine flu story has captured the news cycle for three days and counting now and that’s perpetuating the hysteria, according to Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume.

 

Hume appeared on the FNC’s “The Live Desk with Trace Gallagher”…

Jeff Poor | April 24, 2009

If CNBC on-air talent has really had their hands tied by General Electric and NBC management on criticizing the current administration’s economic policy, you couldn’t tell it from watching Rick Santelli and Larry Kudlow.

 On CNBC’s…