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March 14, 2017
While financial news networks, companies and economists linked optimism over President Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies to the strong jobs report, only one of three broadcast networks — CBS — made that connection.
On…
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March 9, 2017
Twelve. That’s how many records the Dow Jones Industrial Average set in a row in 2017. Twelve new records, 12 sessions in a row.
Seven. That’s how few stories three combined networks devoted in their evening broadcasts to the record run…
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March 9, 2017
It’s not everyday that a payroll jobs analysis crushes expectations by coming in 100K above the forecast. So when it does, it should be big news.
And it was for some media outlets, but not to the broadcast networks. All three evening…
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February 22, 2017
Authorities ordered the temporary evacuation of almost 200,000 people living near the Oroville Dam in California after spillway damage and erosion caused fear of death and devastation.
However, as The Mercury News reported Feb. 12, this spillway…
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February 7, 2017
A federal agency discredited a common argument of climate skeptics in 2015, but now a whistleblower has accused the agency of misleading the public and playing politics. Not that anyone watching the network news would know it.
For several years,…
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January 12, 2017
Network broadcasts slammed Trump’s plan to prevent his businesses from being conflicts of interest during his presidency, and provided scant balance to defend him.
During his first press conference on Jan. 11, President-elect Donald…
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December 29, 2016
CBS Evening News blunted marijuana's appeal after reporting how getting high could leave users violently ill.
CBS has a history of touting marijuana as a medical “miracle” and economic “gold rush,” but on Dec. 28, the…
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December 19, 2016
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average neared the 20,000 mark for the first time in history, the index set 16 closing-day record highs since Donald Trump’s election.
Even some liberal media outlets have drawn a direct connection between the…
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December 6, 2016
If you scream loud and long enough for a liberal cause, the media listen. Pipeline opponents dominated network reporting of the Obama administration’s decision to refuse permission for a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
#NoDAPL…
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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…