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2006

June 12 - USA Today Hypes Student Debt Loads

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

June 7 - CBS Uses Immigration to Push Teacher Pay Complaint

May 31 - Tax Gave New Meaning to Long Distance

May 25 - A Government Land Grab the Media Can Love

May 24 - CNN Continues to Dismiss FTC Report on Price Gouging

May 24 - Networks’ Silence on Corrupt Fannie Mae Continues

May 23 - CNN’s Serwer Dismisses Study Finding No Price Gouging

May 19 - Morning Shows Ignore Vote to Keep Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling

May 11 - Media Concerned about Government Having Phone Numbers

May 10 - All’s Well that Ends in Oil

April 21 - Ethanol’s Role in Higher Gasoline Prices – Not News

April 14 - Wash. Post Ignores Uncle Sam’s Monopoly in Wyoming

April 5 - Mass. Law Requiring Health Insurance Praised in Print

March 15 - Econ 101: Rich and Poor in a Market Economy

March 15 - Where Do We Go from Dubai?

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

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

March 2 - ABC Shows Why You Shouldn’t Drive 55

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 28 - What Did Fannie Mae Know and When Did She Know It?

February 27 - NBC Stacks Deck Against Wal-Mart

February 24 - Media Ignore Democratic Ties to Fannie Mae Scandal

February 23 - ABC Speeds through Traffic Camera Story

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

February 22 - Media Whine, Consumers Win

February 15 - Federal Budget: Here a Cut, There a Cut

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

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

February 9 - Newspapers Continue to Call Slowed-Down Spending ‘Cuts’

February 8 - Econ 101: What Happens When We Subsidize

February 8 - Medicare drug program a bitter pill; Bono still hasn’t found what he’s looking for; Good jobs report gets the sound of silence.

February 7 - Newscasts See Budget Filled with ‘Substantial’ Cuts

February 3 - ABC Stuck in a Moment of One-Sided Coverage

February 2 - Newspapers Saw the U.S. Budget’s Slightly Smaller Shadow

February 1 - Bravo for the Maestro

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

January 18 - Own Your Own Retirement

January 11 - Media Quick to Blame Industry for Mining Tragedy

January 9 - ‘In the Money’ Crew Rams Viewers Like a Bus With anti-Banking Bias

January 5 - NBC Savidges the Mining Industry

2005

December 14 - Herman Cain: A Whale of a Tale

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

November 23 - Charles Simpson: Pilgrims and Ingrates

November 23 - Chewing the fat about federal pork; Oil tax just 'a hill of beans'; ABC reporter driven to shame over SUV.

November 17 - CNN Ribs Congress on Pork

November 16 - CNN’s Serwer Hopes Senate Has ‘Fortitude’ to Pass Oil Tax

November 16 - The Gray Lady pans tax hike in Germany; CBS shades solar energy report; Fox News burns ‘fair and balanced’ motto in ‘The Heat Is On.’

November 9 - A Simple Plan?

November 9 - Gary Wolfram: Econ 101: The Role of the Courts in the Economy

October 19 - A fair view of FairTax; the problem with calling for government aid; and why the Four Horsemen are over the top.

October 19 - Dan Gainor: Flat-Out Un-Fair: Tax ‘Fix’ More than a Four-Letter Word

October 19 - Lobbying for Extra Credit

October 14 - Federal Help?

October 12 - Gary Wolfram: Econ 101: Should the Government Plan Cities?

October 12 - Media Won’t Rest until Taxes Are Raised

October 6 - Fannie Mae Scandal Grows and Networks Do Nothing

September 14 - A Flood of Incomplete Insurance Coverage

September 13 - Media Use Katrina to Lobby for Higher Taxes

September 8 - Cutting Taxes One Minute; Raising Them the Next

August 17 - Herman Cain: The Media Say the Economy Is Horrible, So It Must Be True

August 15 - Social Security’s Retirement Date Long Passed

August 4 - FairTax Gets Unfair Interview

August 3 - Energy: Regulation and Rewards, not Freedom

August 1 - Required Reading for the Tax Revolution

July 28 - Media Downplay 25 Percent Tax Promoted By Democrats

July 21 - No Shortage of Errors in Deficit Coverage

July 18 - CBS dares to criticize business ethics of other companies

July 11 - Accuracy on Leave from ABC

July 5 - Post Slants Tax Cut Story

June 29 - Walter Williams: Confiscating Property

June 28 - Herman Cain: Save the Frog

June 27 - Charles Simpson: The Georgia Tea Party

June 26 - Tax & Spin

June 26 - Tax & Spin: Five Ways the Media Distort Tax Issues

June 22 - $7 Billion, But Who’s Counting?

June 22 - CNN’s Henry Misrepresents Personal Accounts Polls

June 16 - Social Security Debate: ‘What to do about it?’

June 8 - Biased Accounts Part III: Networks Guarantee Liberal View of Social Security

June 7 - For London Socialist, Taxes are the Answer

June 2 - Media Neglect Support for Personal Accounts

May 19 - Herman Cain: News Coverage Skews View of Social Security Reform

May 18 - Large Tax Increase Not Newsy Enough for Media

May 17 - Truth About Social Security Reform Lost in ‘Transition’

May 13 - Getting Personal over Personal Accounts

May 12 - Investing for Dummies

April 29 - Media Jump on Social Security “Cuts” to Obscure Details of Bush Plan

April 27 - Biased Accounts: Networks Guarantee Liberal View of Social Security

April 27 - Post Paints FDR as ‘Moderate’ on Social Security

March 25 - Apples and Oranges: Media Wrongly Equate Galveston Pension Plan with Bush’s Social Security Reform

March 4 - NYT/CBS Numbers Show Support for Bush on Social Security

February 9 - Couric, CBS Morning News touted France’s short work week, but will they admit it failed?

February 1 - Times Gives Chile Savings Plan the Cold Shoulder