Summer Rerun: Media Hot for Al Gore All Over Again

August 16th, 2006 2:00 PM
Summer Rerun
Global Warming Movie Makes the Media
Hot for Al Gore All Over Again

An Inconvenient Truth gave the media a convenient excuse to spend all summer with Al Gore. They took it, putting Gore or his movie on TV for more than five-and-a-half hours in a three-month span.

Too Much Gore on TV
Network obsession delivers a summer filled with vice president turned climate change pitchman.

G: LA Times: Housing market survives downbeat predictions
B: CBS warns against eating fast food even occasionally
U: NY Times writer fumes about Hummer toys in McDonalds Happy Meals

CNN's Dobbs Cites Liberal Congressman for 'Guts' to Tackle Overspending

Raul Castro's Idea of 'Free Enterprise': Drug Smuggling?

Post Worshipfully Labels Pew Hispanic Center 'Unbiased'



 

The case for neglecting global warming (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Warning to the Governator, California minimum wage hike could terminate jobs (NTU)

Sales tax holidays: politically expedient but poor tax policy (Tax Foundation)

Federal pay: myth and realities. (Cato)

Even a foiled terror attack hurts the economy (AEI)

Welfare Reform at 10: Marking the Milestone
The Heritage Foundation
Washington, D.C., August 17

Book Forum: Crisis of Abundance with author Arnold Kling
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., August 29

Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., September 5

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