Sawyer Frets Gas Will Continue to Climb, Stock Market Will Crash
May 8th, 2007 9:58 AM
With gasoline prices going up, Diane Sawyer worries they will continue to rise. With stock prices going up, the same Sawyer worries they will experience a crash of historic proportions.Sawyer's guest on Good Morning America today at 7:15 AM EDT was Mellody Hobson, a GMA financial contributor. Here's how Sawyer kicked things off.GMA CO-HOST DIANE SAWYER: Will runaway gas prices keep soaring,…
Media Finally Realize Higher Gas Prices Aren’t President Bush’s Fa
May 3rd, 2007 1:50 PM
For several years as oil and gas prices have exploded, a frequent media commentary has been to blame the problem on President Bush. Either he didn’t do enough to stop a hurricane from hitting New Orleans, or it’s due to the war in Iraq, or he should talk to Iran, or it’s due to Cheney’s having run Halliburton – whatever the specious connection, the White House has been routinely at fault.Yet,…
Richard Belzer Emulates ‘Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy
April 28th, 2007 5:18 PM
Despite being the lone Conservative on Friday’s “Real Time,” National Review contributor Lisa Schiffren might have had the best line of the evening when she accused comedian and actor Richard Belzer of emulating the “Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy.”As the discussion moved to Iraq, Belzer advanced the common liberal meme that the war was all about oil:And now the Democrats are…
CBO: ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Program to Curb Global Warming Hurts Poor the
April 26th, 2007 11:28 AM
Here’s an extraordinarily inconvenient truth the press will likely not report: a “cap-and-trade” program designed to curb carbon emissions in order to "solve" global warming will negatively impact the poor the most.Think Charlie, Brian, and Katie will do a story on this tonight?Regardless of the answer, the reality is that as folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his sycophant devotees recommend…
Dow Soars to Record 13,000 Point Level, But...CBS and ABC Stress the N
April 25th, 2007 8:18 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared past the 13,000 level on Wednesday, but the CBS and ABC evening newscasts reported the good news in the media's all-too-frequent “yes, but” framework. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric fretted that “even as investors are making money in the market, Anthony Mason reports there are concerns tonight about the rest of the U.S. economy.” Mason talked with a…
Old Media Does Ford No Favors by Ignoring the American Family Assn. Bo
April 22nd, 2007 10:49 AM
Is The Ford Motor Company committing an Old-Media-assisted suicide?
On Wednesday, One News Now had a story about how the Formerly Mainstream Media has largely ignored the negative impact the the American Family Association's boycott of Ford has had on the company (an audio version of the report is also at the link):
News media ignoring Ford boycott, media analyst says
Report You Won’t Hear About: Ethanol Emissions No Cleaner Than Gasol
April 3rd, 2007 11:55 AM
An as yet unpublished report from Ottawa, Canada, suggests that there is absolutely no ecological advantage to using ethanol blends in cars versus conventional unleaded gasoline. Think this will make headlines here in America?Regardless of the answer, the Canadian Broadcasting Company reported on Friday (video available here, emphasis added throughout):An unpublished federal report appears to…
Media Ignore CNBC Anchor Advising Hedge Funds How to Lie and Cheat to
March 22nd, 2007 1:47 PM
Something rather extraordinary occurred last December which had extremely ominous implications for stock investors around the world, but got totally ignored by the media. In fact, if not for a recent video posting at YouTube, and a March 20 article in the New York Post, these spectacular revelations would still be well under the radar.On December 22, CNBC’s James Cramer did a web interview for…
