Doom and Gloom on ABC: Hottest in 500,000 Years
December 15th, 2005 10:18 AM
Forget about how cold it is outside — according to ABC, there’s no longer a debate about global warming: manmade greenhouse emissions have put Earth “under non-stop stress from the heat,” with deaths from global warming “conservatively” estimated at 150,000 per year. In a stupendously one-sided story that aired on Thursday’s “Good Morning America” — a longer version of which will be shown…
Sawyernomics: ABC Anchor Presses for Tax Hike for 'Thin Ice' Economy
December 5th, 2005 10:09 AM
“I know, Dan, the President’s giving a speech on the economy coming up, but there are people, including Alan Greenspan of the Fed, and also the GAO, the top auditor in the country, who have said with these deficits, these mounting deficits, it is simply hard to look at this economy as anything but on thin ice, no matter what. No new taxes?” -- Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer to Dan Bartlett,…
Media Myths: The Housing Bubble is Bursting
November 30th, 2005 9:03 PM
Don't miss my latest writing for the Free Market Project: Media claims about a “housing bubble” are nothing new. Since before the 9/11 terror attacks, the media have been calling the housing market a “bubble” while predicting an imminent, devastating decline. Not only have they been wrong in forecasting such a top, they have thoroughly mischaracterized what an investment bubble is. Now that the…
