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The Business of Rebuilding
Network news gives little time to Americans generosity, as businesses use their profits to help the needy.
The Media Spin: Bring Out the Tea Leaves
Global warming is in fashion today, but veteran journalist David Goodnow remembers when we once feared another little ice age.
Econ 101: Are Housing Prices Too High
Professor Gary Wolfram explains the economics behind pricing and the housing bubble.
Media Take a Bite Out of CAFE Guidelines
Government proposes new light truck, SUV fuel standards, but media highlight critics.
Networks Send Plaintiffs Message to Drugmakers
Media continue lopsided coverage of litigation in Vioxx verdict.
NYT Sees Kyoto Failure Everywhere
New York Times reporter Anthony DePalma today perfectly demonstrates the mantra of much of the modern press: Never pass up an opportunity to bash Bush.In his front-page story entitled “9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants,” Mr. DePalma adroitly accomplishes this credo in paragraph two:The cooperative action, the first of its kind in the nation, came after the Bush administration…
NBC Nightly News Compares Iraq to Vietnam
NBC on Tuesday night devoted a story to comparing Iraq to Vietnam. Reporter Jim Miklaszewski concluded that “while there are marked differences between the wars in Iraq and Vietnam, the rhetoric, at least, is beginning to sound much the same.” Miklaszewski used as an excuse for raising the subject how "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld himself bringing up the Vietnam issue at his Pentagon…
Why Does Our Media Support Our Enemies
A front-page story concerning Iran in Tuesday’s Washington Post was clearly intended to thwart American efforts preventing that country from obtaining nuclear weapons, as well as to embarrass the Bush administration with more implications of faulty intelligence.In an article entitled “No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program”, Dafna Linzer states:Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in…