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December 14, 2016
2016 was a crazy year. Many celebrities died including Gene Wilder, David Bowie and Prince. So did Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Americans also had ringside seats to the presidential boxing match between Apprentice star Donald Trump, R, and former…
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December 2, 2016
Not everyone in the news media cheered on the November jobs report. Fox Business Network (FBN) anchor Stuart Varney criticized the report’s numbers on Dec. 2.
“178,000 new jobs created. Let’s call that a weak report,” he…
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December 1, 2016
More than a month before Donald Trump takes office, he saved 1,000 manufacturing jobs. But the very anti-Trump New York Times gratuitously downplayed that news.
According to the Dec. 1, Wall Street Journal, Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence…
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November 30, 2016
Journalists like to point out the 1950s and ’60s classic cars dominating Cuba’s streets, but in the wake of dictator Fidel Castro’s death they largely ignored the story those cars tell.
Those vintage cars are emblematic of the…
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November 9, 2016
The liberal media were in mourning on Election Night when it became clear Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States.
Panic was palpable and journalists, particularly on NBC networks, blamed a significant drop in Dow futures on…
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November 4, 2016
The month before the hotly contested presidential election, ABC World News Tonight spent so little time on the U.S. economy — it devoted more time “cheering for” a 101 year-old cheerleader.
Polls in October once again showed…
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October 11, 2016
Comedians often knock celebrities for spending too little time in their marriages. In September 2016, ABC spent too much time on one celebrity’s marriage and too little on voters’ most important issue: the economy.
For three…
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October 6, 2016
Proving again that its new podcast slants left, Clarify bashed the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher for current problems with the economy. Nevermind the many years since those leaders were in charge.
That’s right. No discussion…
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October 6, 2016
There was major negative economic news on Oct. 4, when the International Monetary Fund released its latest World Economic Outlook, but the broadcast networks paid no attention that night.
The group issued new estimates for global economic growth…
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September 29, 2016
For two months prior to the first presidential debate, the networks’ evening news shows ignored news of "very weak" GDP growth in their broadcasts.
The Washington Examiner reported on Sept. 29, that the U.S. gross domestic…