The Great Media Depression
ByDan GainorSee Executive SummaryThe year was 1929. The decade of the '20s was ending - not with a roar, but with a whimper. Years of a sky-high stock market and speculative buying were coming to a...
View ArticlePumped Up Predictions
ByDan GainorSee Executive Summary Even in the midst of an election and Wall Street crisis, oil and gas prices have been front and center in 2008. The huge spike in both commodities was followed by a...
View ArticleThe Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009
ByJulia A. SeymourEach 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: 10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian...
View ArticleCNBC Finally Embraces Santelli's Tea Party Rant
ByJeff PoorOne day before what many say will be an historic election; CNBC appears to finally be embracing one of the most famous moments in the network’s history: A Feb. 19, 2009 “rant heard around...
View ArticleFire and Ice
ByDan GainorSidebarsFire and Ice: Executive SummaryU.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change ResearchThe Times Warms to Coolingread more
View ArticleThe Top 10 Economic Myths of 2010
ByJulia A. SeymourEach year the Business & Media Institute looks back on the year's news and selects the top 10 worst economic myths. Here is our 2010 list:10. GM Repayment Shows Taxpayer Bailout...
View ArticleNetworks Link Bush to 'Skyrocketing' Gas Prices 15 Times More Than Obama
ByJulia A. SeymourConnecting Bush, Not Obama to High Prices: As gas prices rose in 2008, network reporters mentioned President Bush in 15 times as many stories, than they brought up President Obama in...
View ArticleHoly Week: Media Worship Earth Day, Attack Easter
ByErin BrownMajor Findings:Media Undermine Christian Holiday: Nearly two thirds of all stories about Easter were negative (22 out of 34).Easter Used to Attack Catholic Church: Ninety-one percent of...
View ArticleGood Friday: Google Celebrates Earth, Ignores Jesus
ByErin BrownThis year, Good Friday and Earth Day fall on the same day and internet giant Google has chosen to prop up the liberal eco-celebration, and ignore a sacred Christian holiday celebrated by...
View ArticleNetworks Treated Good Friday, Earth Day as Equals
ByErin BrownThis past Friday, April 22, 2011, marked the simultaneous celebration of Good Friday and Earth Day and ABC, CBS and NBC treated the two 'holidays' as equals.Though Good Friday has been...
View ArticleRoyal Disaster: Networks Obsess Over Wedding, Barely Mention Mexico Drug...
ByErin Brown ByMatt PhilbinMajor Findings:read more
View ArticleMedia Say Little about Policy Failures of Obama's New Top Economist
ByJulia A. SeymourPresident Obama announced liberal Princeton economist Alan Krueger as his new pick to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers, as the president prepares for a speech on...
View ArticleCBS Jumps on the Anti-Marriage Bandwagon
ByPaul Wilson, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and MediaOne day after NBC's ''Today'' celebrated the ''end of traditional marriage,'' CBS's ''Early Show'' went even further, entertaining the...
View ArticleThe Great Media Depression
ByDan GainorSee Executive SummaryThe year was 1929. The decade of the '20s was ending - not with a roar, but with a whimper. Years of a sky-high stock market and speculative buying were coming to a...
View ArticlePumped Up Predictions
ByDan GainorSee Executive Summary Even in the midst of an election and Wall Street crisis, oil and gas prices have been front and center in 2008. The huge spike in both commodities was followed by a...
View ArticleThe Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009
ByJulia A. SeymourEach 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: 10. CBS, NY Times Support Ecuadorian...
View ArticleCNBC Finally Embraces Santelli's Tea Party Rant
ByJeff PoorOne day before what many say will be an historic election; CNBC appears to finally be embracing one of the most famous moments in the network’s history: A Feb. 19, 2009 “rant heard around...
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