Business Coverage
Joe Ricketts on CBS: Liberals Wrong to Blame Recessions on Free Market
Business
November 4th, 2019 4:51 PM
The liberal media routinely warn that America is headed for a recession, but what is to blame? Liberal sources like The New York Times offering “How the Recession of 2020 Could Happen,” CNBC’s “Is there a recession coming? Keep an eye on these key indicators,” and Vox’s “Why everybody’s worried about a recession again” and “Recessions, and the fear that another one is just around the corner,…
Smart Device Apps May Be Eavesdropping, Phishing for Users’ Passwords
October 21st, 2019 2:35 PM
Americans seem to love Big Tech’s latest smart devices for their conveniences, but are Amazon- and Google-approved apps being used to eavesdrop and phish for your passwords?
Brian Stelter Touts Liberal-Funded Nonprofit News Orgs Joining Forces
Business
October 18th, 2019 11:19 AM
It is interesting to see liberal outlets like CNN singing the praises of nonprofit news outlets like ProPublica and Texas Tribune, particularly because these entities happen to have been funded almost exclusively by some of the biggest liberal organizations, including organizations from George Soros’ Open Society Network.
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ABC's Modern Family: Stay at Home Moms ‘Resent Children’
Culture
October 17th, 2019 1:00 AM
Modern Family has always dismissed the critical role of a mother with its gay male couple raising a daughter. It has also inserted feminist talking points in the past. In this week’s episode, “Pool Party,” on October 15, the show highlighted two incoherent premises of the feminist left: Corporations are “corrupt and mercenary,” but women should leave their babies to work for them or they will “…
Amazon May Be Ushering in Our Robot Overlords
October 11th, 2019 11:04 AM
If you’re not preparing now to serve our future robot overlords, then you’d better start. Amazon, since at least Jan. 2019, has been hard at work developing what it calls a “fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices.” Amazon has already developed Amazon AI. You know her as Alexa, and her counterpart is the Echo.…
‘Defective’ Hip Provides New Amsterdam’s Latest Anti-Business Plot
Culture
October 9th, 2019 12:04 AM
Smug, unfeeling suits, unconcerned by harm their products have caused — that’s how New Amsterdam portrayed medical device manufacturers in its latest episode. Construction worker Mr. Martinelli is admitted to the hospital with strange symptoms and the doctors eventually realize he is being poisoned by cobalt from his metal hip replacement device, in “Replacement” which aired Oct. 8.
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NBC IGNORES Record Low Employment Rate, New Jobs Report
October 5th, 2019 1:52 PM
The jobs report that came out Friday showed that the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 percent; the lowest in half a century. Yet, the three evening newscasts on the “alphabet soup” networks decided that this historic occasion merited little to no coverage. NBC Nightly News did not bring up the jobs report at all while the other two newscasts spent a combined 32 seconds on the economy.
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GMO Seed Makers ‘No Better Than Gangsters’ on ‘Bluff City Law’
Culture
September 30th, 2019 11:49 PM
Fictional agricultural corporation Terennial was the evil big business in the second episode of NBC’s new legal drama Bluff City Law.
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Super Woke ‘Superstore’ Fights ICE and Corporations
Culture
September 26th, 2019 10:11 PM
Last season, the NBC comedy Superstore ended with a dramatic ICE arrest. During last season’s finale, the audience was supposed to feel sympathy for Mateo (Nico Santos), the illegal immigrant who stole a woman’s identification to get his job. The season premiere, “Cloud 9.0,” on September 26 began with a vigil by the Cloud 9 store’s employees to protest their illegal co-worker's detainment.
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‘New Amsterdam’ Attacks Pharma ‘Extortionists’ in Season 2 Premiere
Culture
September 25th, 2019 12:59 AM
Viewers tuning in to New Amsterdam to learn who died in the terrible ambulance accident from the spring finale will be shocked by the answers in the series premiere. What won’t shock them was that NBC’s medical drama was packed tighter with liberal views than the hospital’s emergency room was filled with patients. No change there from last season.
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TV's ‘Bluff City Law’ Takes Aim at Lying, ‘Criminal’ Corporations
Culture
September 24th, 2019 12:20 AM
The Memphis-based and blues-infused new legal drama Bluff City Law has a high-minded premise: that attorneys like Elijah and Sydney Strait are fighting to “change the world” by going after evil corporations willing to “ruin your life” to protect their profits.
The Horrors! NY Times Frets Over The Diabolical ‘Dishwasher Lobby!’
September 19th, 2019 5:38 PM
New York Times “climate reporter” Hiroko Tabuchi went to war against “secretive” conservative free-market groups that are fighting counter-productive regulations in Wednesday’s edition: “Warriors Against Environmental Rules Champion the Dishwasher.” Tabuchi found herself in the strange position of embracing corporate public-relations-speak from dishwasher manufacturers, in the cause of defending…
USA Today Assails Natural Gas, Omits Links to Bloomberg, Steyer
Business
September 9th, 2019 6:22 PM
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer are two of the wealthiest anti-fossil fuels crusaders. In June, Bloomberg promised to spend another $500 million eradicating coal and starting to target natural gas power plants too.
Yet, USA Today failed to connect the dots between either billionaire and the left-wing groups, including the Rocky Mountain Institute,…
Hypocritical NY Times Bashes ‘Greed'-Inspired Milton Friedman
August 21st, 2019 5:40 PM
In a story for the New York Times front page Tuesday, “Shareholders Rule No More, C.E.O.s Pledge,” business reporters David Gelles and David Yaffe-Bellany conceded all the left-wing arguments about the evils of big business and roasted Nobel laureate free-market economist Milton Friedman as an avatar of greed: "This mind-set informed the corporate raiders of the 1980s and contributed to an…