Media Myth: Taxation with Misrepresentation
ByAmy MenefeeSee Executive SummaryWhen is a dollar a taxpayer dollar? A. When it’s paying for stem cell research. B. When it’s going to the military in Iraq. C. When it’s supporting...
View ArticleThe Medias Top 10 Economic Myths of 2006
ByDan GainorSee Executive Summary 10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the...
View ArticleThe Great Media Depression
ByDan GainorSee Executive SummaryThe year was 1929. The decade of the '20s was ending - not with a roar, but with a whimper. Years of a sky-high stock market and speculative buying were coming to a...
View ArticleMedia Myth: Networks Stick to Warming Theme Despite Avalanche of Chilling News
ByJulia A. SeymourTemperatures have plummeted to record or near-record lows in 32 states this winter. On March 2, a global warming protest in Washington, D.C. was buried by nearly a foot of snow. And...
View ArticleNetworks Flip Flop on Jobs
Identical Unemployment Numbers Good News for Obama, But All Bad under Reagan. ByJulia A. SeymourSee Executive SummaryThese are tough times. More than 3 million people have lost their jobs just since...
View ArticleTimes Again Hails Grand Total of Four Illegal Immigrant Marchers
Back in January, a four-student march from Miami to Washington on behalf of illegals somehow merited a 780-word Times article. By contrast, a massive anti-Obama rally that attracted over 100,000...
View ArticleFire and Ice
ByDan GainorSidebarsFire and Ice: Executive SummaryU.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change ResearchThe Times Warms to Coolingread more
View ArticleSpeak No Evil: Networks Obscure Deadly Extremism of Muslim Brotherhood
ByErin Brown ByMatt PhilbinABC, NBC and CBS news programs have mentioned the Muslim Brotherhood 135 times in 17 years, but only linked them to fundamentalist Islam 37 percent of the time. Just since...
View ArticleUnemployment Below 9 Percent 'Bolsters Recovery Hopes' in 2011, But Little...
ByJulia A. SeymourThe unemployment rate finally dropped below 9 percent in February 2011, after 21 months at that rate or higher. The Labor Department reported March 4 that the rate had dropped 0.1...
View ArticleNo Nukes: How Three Mile Island was Disaster for Media Credibility
ByJulia A. SeymourThe massive earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan on March 11 claimed many lives and knocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant offline reviving decades-old fears as well as...
View ArticleRising Gas Prices Linked to Obama Drilling Ban in Just 1% of Evening News...
ByJulia A. SeymourMain Findings: - Gas prices have risen almost $1-a-gallon since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, yet President Obama's drilling moratorium and other anti-oil policies have barely...
View Article'Mad Money' Jim Cramer Blasts Times Reporter for Natural Gas 'Hit Pieces'
ByJulia A. SeymourIt is rare when a member of the news media takes on one of his brethren over bad reporting, but that's exactly what CNBC's Jim Cramer did on "Mad Money" June 28.read more
View ArticleNew York Times Hypes 'Several Tens of Thousands of Immigrants' in DC Rally,...
ByClay WatersThe New York Times continued its push for immigration "reform" in Thursday's edition. The front of the National section included a page-width photo of "tens of thousands of immigrants,...
View ArticleMedia Myth: Taxation with Misrepresentation
ByAmy MenefeeSee Executive SummaryWhen is a dollar a taxpayer dollar? A. When it’s paying for stem cell research. B. When it’s going to the military in Iraq. C. When it’s supporting...
View ArticleThe Medias Top 10 Economic Myths of 2006
ByDan GainorSee Executive Summary 10. American manufacturing is obsolete Media myth: All the manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and the only ones left are in the almost empty plants of the...
View ArticleThe Great Media Depression
ByDan GainorSee Executive SummaryThe year was 1929. The decade of the '20s was ending - not with a roar, but with a whimper. Years of a sky-high stock market and speculative buying were coming to a...
View ArticleMedia Myth: Networks Stick to Warming Theme Despite Avalanche of Chilling News
ByJulia A. SeymourTemperatures have plummeted to record or near-record lows in 32 states this winter. On March 2, a global warming protest in Washington, D.C. was buried by nearly a foot of snow. And...
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