Each year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2009 list:
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December 9th, 2009 11:00 AM | Noel Sheppard
Al Gore warned CNN viewers Wednesday about imminent planetary doom at the hands of his favorite bogeyman global warming just seconds before Kiran Chetry reported the "monster storm paralyzing…
December 9th, 2009 10:11 AM | Matt Philbin
What’s that hissing sound? Al Gore’s fuse? Steam coming from Barbara Boxer’s ears?
Probably, but mostly, it’s the sound of gas escaping the climate change balloondoggle. Assuredly, there’…
December 9th, 2009 12:23 AM | Rusty Weiss
White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, recently ridiculed a Gallup poll which showed the President's approval ratings at a record low for this stage of his presidency, for seemingly no other…
December 8th, 2009 8:51 PM | Jack Coleman
How does earnest MSNBC polemicist Rachel Maddow expect anyone to take her seriously when she doubts al Qaeda still threatens American lives? It took Susan Rice, US ambassador to the United Nations…
December 8th, 2009 6:30 PM | Matt Philbin
What’s that hissing sound? Al Gore’s fuse? Steam coming from Barbara Boxer’s ears? Probably, but mostly, it’s the sound of gas escaping the climate change balloondoggle. Assuredly, there’s no…
December 8th, 2009 5:21 PM | Lachlan Markay
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at Gallup polling today for releasing poll data that the administration does not like. The most recent Gallup poll shows President Obama's…
December 8th, 2009 2:54 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN made a real, day-long effort on Monday to address the climate-change debate as a debate, giving skeptics of manmade climate change a series of chances to match the leftist view, especially during…
December 7th, 2009 3:10 PM | Matthew Balan
Monday’s American Morning on CNN covered the ClimateGate scandal extensively, but slanted towards those who deny that the exposed e-mails amount to much. Anchor John Roberts let the interim director…
December 7th, 2009 1:41 PM | Brad Wilmouth
While it has been documented that CNN's Howard Kurtz chided his own news network for ignoring the recently-revealed scandal involving Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominating his…
December 7th, 2009 10:27 AM | Noel Sheppard
"Saturday Night Live" and NBC are being criticized for a recent skit that poked fun at Tiger Woods' highly-publicized marital problems.
In the sketch, Woods, played by Keenan Thompson,…
December 7th, 2009 1:57 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Sunday, during the 6:00 p.m. hour and again during the 7:00 p.m. hour, CNN NewsRoom, hosted by Don Lemon, ran a report by correspondent Mary Snow on ClimateGate -- which was somewhat more…
December 6th, 2009 7:09 PM | Candance Moore
CNN political contributor Roland Martin opined on Friday that since President Obama has been in the White House for almost a year, his default line of blaming George Bush for an inherited mess…
December 6th, 2009 10:37 AM | Brad Wilmouth
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On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN's Howard Kurtz brought up the scarcity of media attention paid to the revelation that high-profile Democratic Senator Max…
December 5th, 2009 2:24 PM | Mike Bates
And they say a woman scorned can be merciless. Eric Burns once served as the host of Fox News Watch. It's reasonable to assume he won't be working there again any time soon. In a December 2…
December 5th, 2009 12:36 PM | Mike Bates
On CNN Saturday Morning News today, anchors Betty Nguyen and T.J. Holmes reported on a U.S. senator who nominated his girlfriend to serve as a federal prosecutor earlier this year:HOLMES: Well, it is…
December 5th, 2009 7:16 AM | Tim Graham
On Friday night's Anderson Cooper 360, the CNN anchor tried hard to spin bad polling news for Obama. "In the latest CNN/Opinion Research poll, 48 percent, less than half, said they approve of…
December 4th, 2009 7:13 PM | Matthew Balan
On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN correspondent Mary Snow highlighted the latest developments on ClimateGate, but only played one sound bite from a skeptic of manmade climate change, as opposed to…
December 4th, 2009 6:47 PM | Kyle Drennen
Responding to President Obama criticizing media coverage of the White House jobs summit, on Friday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews wondered why the President wasn’t more appreciative of all…
December 4th, 2009 11:14 AM | Jeff Poor
What's $200 billion annually, or roughly $1,761 per family per year, if it means lowering by 10 percent the chance that the world is going to end? It's a pittance to New York Times columnist…
December 3rd, 2009 8:20 PM | Matthew Balan
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CNN anchor Rick Sanchez fairly moderated a debate between glacier photographer James Balog and Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com on Thursday’s…December 3rd, 2009 7:11 PM | Candance Moore
CNN.com's coverage of the failed gay marriage bill in the state of New York was predictably slated against conservatives on the issue.
The article cited liberals against conservatives 4-to-…
December 3rd, 2009 6:53 PM | Mike Bates
On August 28, CNN Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez shared disturbing information with his viewers:A CNN source with very close to the U.S. Secret Service confirmed to me today that threats on the life of…
December 3rd, 2009 2:53 PM | Matthew Balan
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times repeated his endorsement of the “smaller footprint” approach in Afghanistan on CNN’s Campbell Brown program on Wednesday, but couldn’t bring himself to…
December 3rd, 2009 1:32 PM | Rich Noyes
Two weeks ago, unnamed whistleblowers exposed years of e-mails from scientists working at Britain’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). The CRU’s Web site describes it as “one of the world's leading…