The Internet is making kids fat, and it’s time the government did something. That was the impression “American Morning” gave its January 25 audience with a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that…
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December 13th, 2006 4:55 PM | Ken Shepherd
On the heels of two E. coli outbreaks that are still under investigation, ABC News hyped the risk of food-borne illness and suggested more government regulation could prevent illness and…
November 16th, 2006 12:31 PM | Ken Shepherd
The same day the federal government opened re-enrollment for a costly drug benefit, Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) expanded its $4-generic drug plan and another competitor announced it would…
September 19th, 2006 3:11 PM | Ken Shepherd
An E. coli outbreak in pre-packaged spinach proved a convenient excuse for ABC to push for more regulation of American agriculture, citing the pro-regulation, anti-food industry Center for…
July 27th, 2006 4:03 PM | Ken Shepherd
Over at the MRC's BusinessandMedia.org today I wrote about ABC's Lisa Stark picking up a Kaiser Fmily Foundation study of how food companies mix advertisements in with kid-friendly online games…
July 27th, 2006 2:38 PM | Ken Shepherd
What’s next, a “Dateline NBC” sting operation to snag Toucan Sam?
Basing her story on a July 19 study by the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC’s Lisa Stark offered the…
May 12th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
It comes naturally to the media to leave out the liberal label
when presenting an advocacy group in its consumer stories. Thats
what ABC reporters did with…
April 28th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
How young is too young to start worrying about your childs
weight? ABCs Elizabeth Vargas asked, teasing a story by Lisa Stark
about the World Health…
April 22nd, 2006 7:38 PM | Brent Baker
As they did all week, on Friday night the three broadcast network evening newscasts again hyperventilated over the “record” high price for a barrel of oil, though adjusted for inflation, the only…
January 31st, 2006 4:40 PM | Ken Shepherd
The Free Market Project has noticed of late how the media are warming back up to the notion of a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies. The windfall profits tax was a hotter topic in the months…
January 26th, 2006 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
High gas prices have had the oil industry feeling the heat, said
ABCs Elizabeth Vargas, adding, Today, it launched a
counterattack, as she teased World…
January 18th, 2006 12:50 AM | Brent Baker
The broadcast network evening newscasts on Tuesday night refrained from applying any ideological tag to the far-left group of lawyers, who represent terror suspects at Guantanamo and elsewhere, which…
January 11th, 2006 2:00 PM | Amy Menefee
Despite the fact that mining
fatalities in the United States have dropped while production
has increased, the news media have indicted an…
December 7th, 2005 2:00 PM | Ken Shepherd
SpongeBob SquarePants is the new Joe Camel. Thats the alarm bell
CBS health reporter Dr. Emily Senay clanged for parents in her
HealthWatch segment with co…
August 26th, 2005 4:57 PM | Dan Gainor
The left-wing crusade against mercury appears to have been deadly. ABC’s August 26 “Good Morning America” focused on a “controversial autism treatment that may have killed a child.”
According to…
August 24th, 2005 2:00 PM |
Networks Send Plaintiffs Message to Drugmakers Media continue lopsided coverage of litigation in Vioxx verdict.
By Amy…
June 23rd, 2005 2:00 PM |
ABC Reports: Breakfast is ControversialNew ads for kids cereals are the latest target in the anti-free market obesity war.…
June 3rd, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
ABC Helps Officials Beef About Their Own StatisticsWorld News Tonight weighs in on the side of the Centers for Disease Control about obesity.…
April 20th, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
CDCs Numbers Collapse Under Weight of New StudyAnalysis finds estimates of obesity deaths 14 times higher than reality. Center for Disease…
January 7th, 2005 2:00 PM | Dan Gainor
The holidays are over and millions have resolved to lose the
weight we just gained. As we head into the new year, the major media
will make you think twice about the…
June 2nd, 2004 6:41 PM | Dan Gainor
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It’s hard to turn on a television set and not be bombarded with news about fat — a new warning about the dangers of obesity, a new diet that lets you eat more while…