Business and Media Institute

Journalists are challenged every day to make sense of complicated business and economic issues. The Business and Media Institute (formerly the Free Market Project) aims to help journalists do that essential job as well as possible and to monitor their performance.

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Katie Couric Says Recession is Depression for Some

MRC VP Dan Gainor on FNC; Activist Term Pink Slim Smears American Compnay, Threatens Jobs

Submitted by IrisSomberg 1:33 PM Mar 28th

Dan Gainor criticizes media handling of the activist term "pink slim" that smears an american company and threatens jobs.
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MRC’s Bozell on Gas: Prices Will Continue to 'Escalate,' Media Will 'Downplay'

Submitted by MRCTVone 5:25 PM Feb 23rd

MRC President and Newsbusters publisher Brent Bozell predicted on Feb. 23 that gas prices will keep climbing and the media will keep downplaying that fact to help President Barack Obama.
“The prices are going to continue to escalate [...]
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MRC Action Webcast

Submitted by MRCTVone 11:27 AM Dec 16th

CNS News Editor in Chief Terry Jeffrey and Business and Media Vice President Dan Gainor discuss the tentacles of George Soros.
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CMI's religion report featured on Fox News' Special Report

Submitted by Ebrown 6:11 PM Dec 8th

On December 7, 2011, Fox News's Special Report broadcast highlighted the most recent CMI report on religion and presidential candidates during the political grapevine segment.
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Networks Stand with Wisconsin Unions in Budget Fight

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 9:43 AM Feb 23rd

This is just a glimpse of the networks' evening news coverage of the union protests since Feb. 16, 2011.
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Jim Sciutto References Coal Spill In Chemical Spill Story

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 11:43 AM Feb 10th

The coal industry is not a favorite of the network news media, the bulk of whose coverage of coal is about tragic accidents. On Oct. 5, 2010, Jim Sciutto proved that reporters could make the coal industry look bad even when some other industry spilled [...]
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Santelli Slams CNBC Panelists for Spinning Jobs Report

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 5:12 AM Feb 4th

CNBC's Rick Santelli criticized CNBC panelists for trying to find good news in a "disappointing" jobs report. "This is not great data," Santelli warned.
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CBO: "The Only Game In Town"

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 11:50 AM Jan 14th

The network news media often hold up the Congressional Budget Office's "non-partisan" scores on health care reform as authoritative. But the former CBO director has said the claims are the result of nonsense data.
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Diane Swonk Calls Drop to 9.4 Percent Unemployment an 'Anomaly'

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 6:15 AM Jan 7th

CNBC's Squawk Box panel reacted to the December 2010 jobs report with caution, especially regarding the 9.4 percent unemployment rate.
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"World News" Mentions Declining Popularity of ObamaCare

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 11:05 AM Jan 5th

In the past month, very few network news stories about health care have mentioned the extent of public opposition to the bill. "World News" was one of the two exceptions the Business & Media Institute found.
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