World’s most successful example of free-market retailing doesn’t go unpunished, as media jabs continue on many issues. Andy Serwer bashes Wal-Mart.
“When it comes to nuclear power for U.S. energy needs, the media take a ‘No Nukes’ approach that’s heavy on scares, light on facts.”
After PresidentBush’s 2006 State of the Union Address, CBS correspondent Trish Regan featured two senior citizens opposed to health savings accounts. Regan offered no supporters, nor corrected one man’s erroneous comparison.
Two weeks after a jobs report by the government showed a gain of 146,000 jobs, CBS’s Trish Regan saw a sea of pink slips instead of first paychecks on the "Evening News."
Three days before Thanksgiving, CBS’s Jim Acosta roasts the economy’s performance, hoping viewers gobble up his negative spin on jobs on the "Evening News."
CNN’s Lou Dobbs complains that IBM is “ripping up a key financial contract” with its workers
Fox News Channel’s John Gibson worries about workers being put “out on their own” as companies end pensions.
President George W. Bush in a January 12, 2006 speech in St. Louis, Miss., on Gulf Coast reconstruction following Hurricane Katrina.
Brian Ross blames the mining industry for the tragedy at Sagomine.