CNN: Easier to Get a Handgun Than Fruits and Vegetables

Julia A. Seymour
November 16th, 2007 3:12 PM
 

BMI’s Gainor Discusses Media’s Downbeat Economic Coverage

Paul Detrick
November 15th, 2007 5:03 PM
 

CNN Downplays Death Threat Against Oil Executive

Julia A. Seymour
November 15th, 2007 12:05 PM
It seems like every day, the media complain about high gas prices. But it is not often that you hear that someone was so angry about pump prices they sent a death threat to an oil CEO.According to CNN's November 15 "American Morning" Shell president John Hofmeister has not just gotten hate mail.“Pretty brave that you decided to do this, you know you were heading out on tour, you didn’t just get…
 

CBS's Mark Knoller Compares Movie Theaters to Big Oil

Ken Shepherd
November 14th, 2007 3:06 PM
In an Andy Rooneyesque rant about how his latest movie-going experience "left much to be desired," CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller hinted he wouldn't mind seeing liberal consumers groups tackle hefty snack prices at the nation's movie theaters. He even suggested the short titles for two bills Congress could draft on that front. From Knoller's November 12 Couric & Co. blog post (…
 

WSJ Expects to Tear Down Subscription Wall: Murdoch

Tom Blumer
November 13th, 2007 5:31 PM
 

CNN Warns Eating Your iPhone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Jeff Poor
November 9th, 2007 2:49 PM
 

BMI’s Dan Gainor on Fox Business Network

Stuart James
November 6th, 2007 11:34 AM
Yesterday during the 7 p.m. hour of FBN’s “America’s Nightly Scoreboard” the Business and Media Institute’s Director Dan Gainor went head to head with John Coifman of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The topic of discussion was “business going green” and whether or not it can put businesses in the red. The first part of the video can be seen below. David Asman asked Gainor, “What’s…
 

A Transcendent Transterrestrial Musing on Who Really Makes the World B

Tom Blumer
November 4th, 2007 10:06 AM
 

A Hillary Clinton-Big Pharma Connection the Media Won't Attack

Ken Shepherd
November 2nd, 2007 10:16 AM
Author and political reporter Timothy Carney has an interesting item this morning in the Washington Examiner about how Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) practically gets campaign contribution kickbacks from her support for subsidies to the drug industry for the so-called emergency contraceptive pill Plan B. Emphasis mine. (h/t James Joyner):Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., portrays herself as a scourge…
 

'Going Green' Puts Business in the Red

Julia A. Seymour
November 1st, 2007 12:50 PM
Like the latest runway trend, "green is the new black" according to the media. At least where business is concerned. But it turns out that companies are finding "going green" is an easy way to put themselves in the red.Back in 2003 FedEx announced it would begin switching to hybrid trucks and won an award from the Environmental Protection Agency, but at $70,000 more per truck the costs got in the…
 

CBS Ignores Motives of Countrywide CEO Bashers

Jeff Poor
October 31st, 2007 6:21 PM
 

Couric Parrots Liberal Complaints About 'Free Lunch' from Pharma for D

Ken Shepherd
October 26th, 2007 12:47 PM
Why is it that a page from Katie Couric's "Notebook" is often cribbed from the left-wing playbook? [Check here for a real eye-roller from June 2007] In her October 25 "Notebook" item at her Couric & Co. blog, the "CBS Evening News" anchor parroted the complaints of a left-wing group that finds scandalous the practice of doctors getting freebies from pharmaceutical companies.:We all know the…
 

WaPo Cites Highlights Ad Watcher's Complaints Against Oil Companies

Ken Shepherd
September 28th, 2007 1:03 PM
 

On Ed Driscoll’s ‘Atlas Mugged,’ and Breaking Old Media’s Stra

Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2007 12:39 PM