Supporter: Kyotos greatest value is symbolic
By Dan Gainor
The Kyoto treaty finally takes effect today and one of its major supporters…
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February 9, 2005
Couric, CBS Morning News touted Frances short work week, but will they admit it failed?
By Charles Simpson
When the French placed a limit…
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February 4, 2005
Legal Analyst Undercuts Tort Reform Debate
By Charles Simpson
In a lead up to the presidents State of the Union…
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February 1, 2005
Times Gives Chile Savings Plan the Cold Shoulder
By Dan Gainor
Tomorrows State of the Union address is expected to be filled with…
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January 26, 2005
Times Changes its Hole Position on Ozone Layer
By Dan Gainor
When is an encouraging end to a global environmental problem really a bad…
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January 24, 2005
Some funny things can happen when political activism mixes with
corporate operations. Corporations and their officers routinely
contribute to Republican and Democratic political campaigns and
causes, but…
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January 7, 2005
The holidays are over and millions have resolved to lose the
weight we just gained. As we head into the new year, the major media
will make you think twice about the whole concept of holiday
stuffing. How…
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December 13, 2004
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Diet and obesity continue to weigh heavily on the minds of Americans. Those concerns have carried over to the news media, but the coverage takes on a strong anti-business slant, as if businesses and advertisers were…
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December 13, 2004
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Obesity has become one of the most commonplace health issues covered by the mainstream media. This summer, networks and newspapers were full of stories on fad diets, recipes and overweight adults trying to lose…
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November 8, 2004
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For nearly four years, network news programs have presented a skewed view of global warming and the Kyoto treaty that liberal environmentalists claim would cure it. Those same newscasts have all-but ignored the…
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November 8, 2004
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Deadly droughts, polar caps melting, forest fires, sweltering heat. Global warming hasn’t hit the news every day, but when it has, it has done so with a bang. Network news programs have parroted almost any claim to…
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October 14, 2004
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The media gave President Bush consistently negative press about perceived poor job creation and unemployment in the summer of 2004 but their reports were overwhelmingly positive when President Clinton ran for reelection in…
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October 14, 2004
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The media have hammered President George W. Bush on the employment issue despite 13 straight months of positive job creation and other good economic news. The October 8, 2004 jobs report was the latest evidence that…
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October 14, 2004
An Economists View Reporting Labor Statistics Correctly
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D. The George Munson Professor…
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September 23, 2004
The food police are looking to
take a healthy bite out of corporate America. What is their beef?
They think the food industry is making all of us fat. Are they
recommending we eat less or hit the gym? Not…
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August 20, 2004
Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell is promoting her new book attacking the pharmaceutical industry and urging added government regulations at the same time. She is already hitting the media circuit as hard as she hits…
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June 29, 2004
Close on the heels of the TIME/ABC
News Obesity Summit in Colonial Williamsburg, new research may have
discovered the possibility that the increase in the numbers of obese
Americans could correlate closely…
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June 2, 2004
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More and more Americans are obsessed with their weight, and the news media have responded with an abundance of stories about food and fat. But there’s more to the fat story than just giving the public more news they can use…
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June 2, 2004
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It’s hard to turn on a television set and not be bombarded with news about fat — a new warning about the dangers of obesity, a new diet that lets you eat more while the pounds melt away, or the unveiling of a new…
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February 11, 2004
Journalists are usually quite reserved about using the military as
arbiters of scientific credibility. One may recall, for example, the
outraged skepticism expressed over the Pentagons plans to study the…
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