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July 27, 2018
CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and Bloomberg.com viewed the latest U.S. GDP report as good news for the Trump administration.
The 4.1 percent second-quarter GDP estimate announced July 27, was the best quarterly pace in almost four years.…
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April 27, 2018
CNBC’s on-air editor Rick Santelli reacted to the April consumer confidence numbers positively, but the same night ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs all ignored the latest update of consumer attitudes toward the economy, as did their…
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April 11, 2018
You’ve probably heard already. April 10, was “Equal Pay Day,” a symbolic day media, politicians and celebrities use each year to complain about gender-based pay discrimination — by abusing a statistic that does not illustrate…
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November 17, 2011
You can tell people are filling up their cars with gasoline by the scowls on their faces. Nearly three years into Obama-Nation and the term "gas pain" is something that Tums just can't erase.
It's the culmination of the most anti-…
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February 12, 2009
Occasionally, the news media provides justice for a wronged industry or company.
That’s what correspondent Mark Strassmann’s story did on the Feb. 11 “CBS Evening News.” He exposed the repercussions of the recent salmonella…
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December 4, 2008
As the debate over whether taxpayers should fund a bailout of the Big Three U.S. automakers remains front and center on Capitol Hill, foreign auto manufacturers are surviving in the United States, operating without the need…
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November 14, 2008
Gas prices are up: that’s bad. Gas prices are down: that’s even worse. You can’t win either way.
After a series of gas price hardship segments over the last year and a half…
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May 2, 2008
With food inflation growing at an ever-increasing rate, things may be bad. But they aren’t as bad as the “CBS Evening News” made them seem.
Even with the economy at a slow…
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April 9, 2008
Since the beginning of 2008, the three broadcast networks have reported on a British Airways crash at London’s Heathrow Airport, pilots falling asleep on a Go! Airlines flight in Hawaii, the in-air death of an American…
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April 30, 2007
One CEO has embraced the idea of letting shareholders vote on his pay, and the “CBS Evening News” embraced him for it.
“In one work day, America’s average CEO…