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ByDan GainorSpinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That...
View ArticleMSNBC Says 'Fantastic' Report Shows 151,000 Jobs Added, But Rate 'Holds Steady'
ByJulia A. SeymourThe Bureau of Labor Statistics released the unemployment numbers for October showing “fantastic” gains of 151,000 jobs, according to MSNBC, and an unchanged 9.6 unemployment...
View ArticleClimateGate 1 Year Later: Networks Barely Cover Scandal, But Defend and...
ByJulia A. SeymourIt’s been a year since thousands of emails and files were leaked from a prominent climate science group at the University of East Anglia, with startling comments including this one:...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Economic Myths of 2010
ByJulia A. SeymourEach year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2010 list:10. GM Repayment Shows Taxpayer Bailout...
View ArticleDavid Leonhardt Sees Global Warming As 'Serious Risk' for Planet and the Economy
Chief economics writer David Leonhardt: "The most recent climate data suggested 2010 would be the hottest or second-hottest year ever recorded; the 10 hottest have all occurred in the last 13 years,...
View ArticleNetworks Out of Step with Public, Ignore Majority Support for ObamaCare Repeal
ByJulia A. SeymourThe 112th Congress took office Jan. 5 and the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives planned to immediately tackle the unpopular health care legislation signed into...
View ArticleForeign Unrest Raises Energy Worries, but Media Put Down Coal
ByJulia A. Seymour-The coal industry not only gets attacked by the media for being a "dirty" fossil fuel, it rarely gets positive coverage because the networks focus on disasters. Since Jan. 1, 2010,...
View ArticleStimulus Two Years Later, Networks Ignore Obama's Failed Job Promise
ByIris SombergExecutive SummaryJust a few years ago, double-digit unemployment seemed like a crazy idea. But when the economy began to stumble, it was fear of high unemployment and a promise to...
View ArticleDespite Huge Fuel Cost Increases, Networks Criticize Airfare Hikes
ByJulia A. SeymourIf you think it has gotten pricey to fill up your car's gas tank, imagine having to fill the 50,000 gallon or larger tank on a 747. Jet fuel costs 51.4 percent more than it did a...
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 ArticleHoly Week: Media Worship Earth Day, Attack Easter
ByErin BrownMajor Findings:Media Undermine Christian Holiday: Nearly two thirds of all stories about Easter were negative (22 out of 34).Easter Used to Attack Catholic Church: Ninety-one percent of...
View ArticleScience Fiction
ByJulia A. SeymourClick to read the Executive SummaryRead the Sidebar: Live Earth: NBC Joins the Fight for 'Climate in Crisis,' Fails to Stay ObjectiveBaaaa-dum. It only took two musical notes to set...
View ArticleHousing 'Recovery?' Not So Fast
ByJulia A. SeymourDespite media attempts to talk up the economy and journalists' optimism regarding the housing market a couple of years ago, the S&P/Case-Shiller index showed home prices have...
View ArticleMedia Ignored How Failed Gay Relationship, Violent Outbursts Impacted...
ByErin BrownIn the wake of the largest security breach in U.S. military history, the mainstream media have struggled to report all the facts about Bradley Manning, the Iraq war soldier in the middle...
View ArticleGeorge Soros: Media Mogul
ByDan Gainor ByIris SombergRead the Executive SummaryRead Top Journalists that Serve on Soros-Funded Boardsread more
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ByDan GainorSpinning the Numbers When Conservatives in Charge: During the year leading up to the 2005-06 mid-term elections, the economy was strong and unemployment never went above 5 percent. That...
View ArticleMSNBC Says 'Fantastic' Report Shows 151,000 Jobs Added, But Rate 'Holds Steady'
ByJulia A. SeymourThe Bureau of Labor Statistics released the unemployment numbers for October showing “fantastic” gains of 151,000 jobs, according to MSNBC, and an unchanged 9.6 unemployment...
View ArticleClimateGate 1 Year Later: Networks Barely Cover Scandal, But Defend and...
ByJulia A. SeymourIt’s been a year since thousands of emails and files were leaked from a prominent climate science group at the University of East Anglia, with startling comments including this one:...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Economic Myths of 2010
ByJulia A. SeymourEach year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2010 list:10. GM Repayment Shows Taxpayer Bailout...
View ArticleDavid Leonhardt Sees Global Warming As 'Serious Risk' for Planet and the Economy
Chief economics writer David Leonhardt: "The most recent climate data suggested 2010 would be the hottest or second-hottest year ever recorded; the 10 hottest have all occurred in the last 13 years,...
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