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Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Eric Pooley: Inhofe 'Was Right' About U.S. Climate Bill

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:41 AM EST

Leave it to navel-gazing so-called climate journalists to get to the bottom of the aftermath of ClimateGate. The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media asked- what did the 'climate journalism community' learn over the 12 months stemming fr ...

Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Eric Pooley: Inhofe 'Was Right' About U.S. Climate Bill

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

Leave it to navel-gazing so-called climate journalists to get to the bottom of the aftermath of ClimateGate. The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media asked- what did the 'climate journalism community' learn over the 12 months stemming fr ...

Cancun vs. Copenhagen: Have the Media Forgotten About Global Warming?

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:41 AM EST

Crickets chirping That's the sound you would hear if you were looking for any sort of broadcast media coverage on site at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference going on now in Cancun. A survey of the broadcast networks over the week leadi ...

Cancun vs. Copenhagen: Have the Media Forgotten About Global Warming?

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

Crickets chirping That's the sound you would hear if you were looking for any sort of broadcast media coverage on site at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference going on now in Cancun. A survey of the broadcast networks over the week leadi ...

Feds Threatened Citizens United President with Criminal Prosecution Prior to Court Challenge

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:41 AM EST

If you want to bring up something that makes the left crazy, mention the Citizens United-Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision. And, while the punditry on MSNBC and other liberal haunts would have you believe that big corporations were out fr ...

Feds Threatened Citizens United President with Criminal Prosecution Prior to Court Challenge

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

If you want to bring up something that makes the left crazy, mention the Citizens United-Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision. And, while the punditry on MSNBC and other liberal haunts would have you believe that big corporations were out fr ...

WaPo's Ezra Klein: More Charitable to Give to Policy Think Tanks than Food Banks

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EST

Shorter Ezra Klein Nov. 21 column: Let them eat wonky policy papers! If this is Klein trying to win the contest for the best impersonation of the inside-the-beltway 'Grinch Who Stole Christmas,' he may have pulled it off. In a not-so-stunning ad ...

WaPo's Ezra Klein: More Charitable to Give to Policy Think Tanks than Food Banks

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

Shorter Ezra Klein Nov. 21 column: Let them eat wonky policy papers! If this is Klein trying to win the contest for the best impersonation of the inside-the-beltway 'Grinch Who Stole Christmas,' he may have pulled it off. In a not-so-stunning ad ...

'Fish Story': NBC's 'Today' Disregards Motives in Seafood Industry Attack

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EST

As a reporter, when you turn to a whistleblower agriculture commissioner that’s a failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate for a state that has specific economic interests as over an issue you’re reporting on – isn’t that something that should be disclos ...

'Fish Story': NBC's 'Today' Disregards Motives in Seafood Industry Attack

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

As a reporter, when you turn to a whistleblower agriculture commissioner that’s a failed Democratic gubernatorial candidate for a state that has specific economic interests as over an issue you’re reporting on – isn’t that something that should be disclos ...

Friedman Admits He Deliberately Exaggerates China Threat

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EST

It’s funny that every time the Republican Party has any sort of power in government, there’s a clamoring for so-called bipartisan action from the media elite. Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, appeared on the Fox Business Network’s Nov. 12 “Imu ...

Friedman Admits He Deliberately Exaggerates China Threat

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

It’s funny that every time the Republican Party has any sort of power in government, there’s a clamoring for so-called bipartisan action from the media elite. Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, appeared on the Fox Business Network’s Nov. 12 “Imu ...

Market to Take 'One Hell of a Hit' in Mid-December if Bush Tax Cuts Expire

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EST

Call it the law of unintended consequences, but supposing the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire by President Barack Obama, people might react in ways that are detrimental to the overall economy. On CNBC’s Nov. 11 “Squawk on the Street,” Rial Moulton, co ...

Market to Take 'One Hell of a Hit' in Mid-December if Bush Tax Cuts Expire

By Jeff Poor | August 4, 2015, 10:49 AM EDT

Call it the law of unintended consequences, but supposing the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire by President Barack Obama, people might react in ways that are detrimental to the overall economy. On CNBC’s Nov. 11 “Squawk on the Street,” Rial Moulton, co ...

Coming Soon: The ExxonMobil Dollar?

By Jeff Poor | December 7, 2011, 10:30 AM EST

All this extra money being printed and put in the global economy, including the recent moves by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to implement another round of quantitative easing, also known as QE2, has consequences. Those consequences include irregu ...