Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When It’s Rising
June 19th, 2006 9:44 AM
The three broadcast networks have focused growing attention on inflation recently – 42 stories since early May. CBS anchor Bob Schieffer declared on June 14 “Well, it is back, inflation, that is.” The following day, ABC’s Bill Ritter cautioned, “everything from mowing the lawn to joining a gym could cost you more money.”Yet, when positive inflation news was announced just hours later by the new…
GDP Soars and Unemployment Drops; CBS’s Lead: 'The Economy is Slowin
June 2nd, 2006 8:32 PM
A week after ignoring the announcement of a roaring 5.3 percent GDP growth rate in the first quarter, and on the day unemployment fell a tenth of a point to 4.6 percent -- the lowest level since July of 2001 -- the CBS Evening News decided to lead Friday with how, as anchor Russ Mitchell put it: “There are new signs this evening that the economy is slowing down.” Reporter Anthony Mason asserted…
CBS Touts Anti-Exxon Shareholder Publicity Gimmick by Democratic Polit
June 1st, 2006 12:51 AM
On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, Anthony Mason trumpeted how North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore, who got four soundbites, withheld that state’s pension fund votes from the ExxonMobil directors who he thinks gave too great a compensation package to the retired CEO, but Mason failed to identify his Democratic affiliation (not even on-screen) or let viewers in how CBS was delivering publicity…
High Gas Prices Won't Kill off Suburbs
May 14th, 2006 7:01 PM
With gas prices likely to head higher over the summer, expect urban
liberal journalists to step up their campaign to get everyone to not
just vote like them, but to live like them as well. The suburbs aren't
going away anytime soon, though, regardless of what Iran or Katie
Couric might do. Joel
Kotkin has an interesting article in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle which argues
that high gas…
