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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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Lisa Jackson on Green Jobs

Submitted by escheiner 8:58 AM Feb 8th

It is important, as special interests try to gut our safeguards like the Clean Air Act that EPA has worked for and under for decades. And while special interests try to find loopholes so big polluters can skirt other common sense health protections. [...]

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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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Sen. Rand Paul: Ending Bush-Era Tax Rates Is Not The Answer

Submitted by escheiner 3:53 AM Jan 26th

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) responds to President Obama's comments about ending the Bush-era tax rates during the State of the Union Address.

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'Chasm' Between Rich and Poor in Reagan Era Left Many 'Losers'

Submitted by Kyle Drennen 12:08 PM Jan 25th

A 1998 PBS American Experience profile of Ronald Reagan declared that policies of the former president left Americans homeless and "largely ignored" AIDS deaths.

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NBC Reporter Chastizes Americans Wearing 'Blinders' to '80s 'Decline'

Submitted by Kyle Drennen 9:44 AM Jan 24th

On NBC's Nightly News in February of 1992, reporter Keith Morrison pleaded for Americans to realize the supposed economic "decline" that occurred during the Reagan administration.