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Jeff Poor
Jeff Poor | August 25, 2008

     Sending “profanity-laced” e-mails or calling executives at their homes to express your frustration about a loan you can’t pay back may not seem like efficient ways to refinance. But they could get you glowing coverage in…

Jeff Poor | August 22, 2008

     Consider the source on this one, but the face of liberalism on cable television, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, finds it “ironic” an event meant to shed light on the “hoax of global warming” would be canceled due to tropical…

Jeff Poor | August 21, 2008

     It’s better late than never. Now that a government takeover of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been declared “inevitable,” the media are beginning to realize the GSEs were a bad idea…

Jeff Poor | August 20, 2008

     Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a disaster as “a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss or destruction.”

     Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama used it to describe one…

Jeff Poor | August 19, 2008

     CBS News finally found a reason to praise one company for oil speculation, despite past criticism of the practice.

 

     As oil climbed toward its record high over $147 a barrel in…

Jeff Poor | August 18, 2008

     As oil hit a record of more than $147 a barrel on July 11, the media made a game of trying to determine the root cause by focusing on the minutia and not on economics – specifically supply and demand according to one…