Business & Media Institute

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SPECIAL REPORT

Fire and Ice
Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming. BMI looked at newspapers from the late 1800s to the present and found four distinct phases of catastrophic predictions -- cooling, warming, cooling, warming...

Networks Think Inflation is Important Only When It’s Rising
Signs that consumer prices are under control get ignored or downplayed.

Networks That Praise Gates, Bashed Oil Firms
Same media outlets that attacked oil companies for success compliment Microsoft, a more profitable corporation.

Lauer’s SciFi Disaster Examines Our Lack of Future
World won’t end before more viewers subjected to ‘Today’ co-host’s wacky predictions of doom.

CNN's '70s Flashback: Serwer Sees Specter of Stagflation
But economy is performing strongly and inflation is well below 1970s levels.

Summer of Gore Continues with Softball Game on ‘Larry King’
Host lets Gore slam his talking points out of the park without raising any skeptical questions on warming.

‘Recession’ Never Recedes Far from News Comments
TV reports continue to raise the specter of economic troubles despite strong growth and low unemployment.

Commentary
Econ 101: Why Immigration Happens
Despite political issues, immigration is really just economic forces at work.

ABC Labels Litigious Food Police a ‘Consumer Group’
Industry critic CSPI’s lawsuit escaped critical review on ‘World News Tonight’

PBS’s ‘Now’ Charged Up About ‘Foul Play’ Killing Electric Car
But in reality, only a few hundred sold, despite tax credits and advertising.

Gore’s Film, Lionized by Media, A Pussycat at Box Office
Documentary’s lackluster performance worse than ‘Gigli,’ ‘A Prairie Home Companion’

USA Today Hypes Student Debt Loads
Paper features grad student with more than double the average debt load of his peers.

NBC Marks Death Tax Bill’s Demise with Democratic Zinger
Anchor Brian Williams left out conservative talking points and studies showing negative impact of estate tax.
 

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An Energy Field of Dreams (WSJ)

Kevin Hassett: Republicans Have Last, Best Chance to Limit Pork (Bloomberg)

The rocky road to oil riches (BBC)

Charitable giving in U.S. nears record set at end of tech boom (AP)

Bruce Bartlett: The President’s Rotten Record on Trade (Reason)

At its core, capitalism is only way to end poverty (The Business Online)


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“The harsh truth about Western Europe is that it has been living off old capital for years...”

The Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein  in his June 9 column “Old Money Pays for Europe’s ‘Good Life.’”

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