Business Issues

2006

June 16 - Networks That Praise Gates, Bashed Oil Firms

June 7 - A $40-Billion Scandal … With a Capital ‘D’

June 6 - CBS Pushes Liberal Price Gouging Storyline (Again)

June 2 - ABC Takes a Swipe at American Auto Industry

May 25 - A Government Land Grab the Media Can Love

May 24 - Networks’ Silence on Corrupt Fannie Mae Continues

May 23 - ABC, CBS Ignore Price Gouging Report

May 18 - CNN’s Dobbs Continues to Ignore Growth in Auto Industry

May 12 - ‘The View’s’ Vieira Buys Gas ‘Crisis’ Hype

May 8 - ABC Hypes Rising Jet Fuel Cost as Memorial Day Travel Approaches

April 27 - Bashing ‘Big Oil,’ CBS Still Downplays Hugo Chavez’s Use of Oil Profits

April 26 - Media Attack Executive Pay, Hide Effort to Seal Their Own Compensation Records

April 17 - Shocking News: The Economy Is Producing Good Jobs

April 13 - Post Promotes Author of Anti-Wal-Mart Book

April 12 - ABC Recycles NY Times Story Slamming $165-Million Gift

April 11 - Coverage Slanted against Wal-Mart on FDIC Insurance

April 10 - Times Reporter: Modern Layoffs Worse Than Great Depression

April 7 - CBS Attacks Insurance Companies for Making Money

March 30 - Can’t Get Enough of that Regulation

March 29 - NY Times Finds Nothing Funny in Beer Ads

March 22 - ABC’s Stossel finds the upside of outsourcing; ABC credits liberal activist with Pulitzer he never won; Time for a global warming deluge

March 23 - ABC Claims GM Decline Shows Industry in ‘Big Trouble’

March 20 - CNN Team Perplexed by Calm U.S. Public

March 16 - Georgia on ABC’s Mind

March 15 - Where Do We Go from Dubai?

March 15 - Media Drill ‘Big Oil’ Again on ‘Record’ Profits

March 14 - ABC Hatches Weeklong Series on Bird Flu

March 13 - 20/20 Reporters Gone Wild

March 10 - Dobbs, ‘Nightly News’ Attack British Security Firm

March 9 - Chavez-controlled Citgo Gets Another Pass from Networks

March 8 - Avian Flu: A Media Pandemic

March 8 - INY Times shows how American businesses are behind Dubai; CBS airs concern about a new phone monopoly and worries about kids’ roller skates.

March 7 - They’re Starving Me with Science!

March 6 - Look, Ma Bell, No Competition

March 3 - CBS Rolls Out a Tough Look at Skating Sneakers

March 1 - NYT documents rising protectionism in Europe; ABC ignores money motive in Ariz. speed cameras; CNN ‘raises questions’ about legal tax moves, alumni donation by energy investor.

February 27 - NBC Stacks Deck Against Wal-Mart

February 24 - 'Oops!' They Did It Again

February 22 - The Last Days of Disco and Dubai

February 22 - Wal-Mart: Always Under Attack. Always.

February 22 - Media Whine, Consumers Win

February 22 - Dobbs Places Ports in a Storm of Coverage

February 20 - CNN Prescribes an End to Free Medicine Samples

February 15 - Cable Firms Prefer One Choice – Theirs

February 14 - From the Mouths of Babes... to the Pockets of Oil Execs

February 13 - CNN’s ‘In the Money’ Continues Love Affair with Class Warfare

February 10 - USA Today Insists Mine Safety Fines Aren’t High Enough

February 8 - The Nuclear Option

January 31 - Media Emphasize Exxon Profit, Restart Focus on Windfall Taxes

January 30 - CNN Plugs Study Showing Partisan Divide Causes Confusion about Economy

January 26 - ABC’s Lisa Stark Goes After Oil Profits

January 25 - ‘In Depth’ Report on Detroit’s Woes Skirts Heavy Union Costs

January 25 -- BusinessWeek on how outsourcing benefits the economy; Lou Dobbs takes erroneous outrage on the road; CNN on Hollywood stars vs. Wall Street execs.

January 24 - Newscasts Overlook Ford’s Costly Severance Programs

January 23 - CNN’s Dobbs Blames Free Trade, Non-Union Labor for Ford’s Woes

January 20 - Who’s Worth More?

January 18 - ‘Nightly News” Features Critic, But No Defenders of Corporate Pay

January 18 - Pension Promises: the Death of the American Dream?

January 18 -- NY Times on how realtors lock the doors of competition from banks and online brokers; Dobbs sees “Red” over Chinese cars in American showrooms; Reporters jump to conclusions on frog extinction from single study.

January 12 - Lou Dobbs Plays Paul Revere over Chinese Cars

January 11 - Post finds banks bending over backwards; Media ride Willie Nelson’s (biodiesel) bandwagon; CNN anchor vows to throw himself in front of a bus.

January 4 - CBS Passes Off Coal Critic as Dispassionate Expert

2005

December 23 - Networks Dump Coal on Wal-Mart’s Christmas

December 14 - The Media’s Top 10 Economic Myths of 2005

December 9 - Papers Spin Scuffle over Study Data into Knockout for Merck Opponents

2004