What The Media Tell Americans About Free Enterprise

December

• Where’s That Asian Model Now? -- After Years of Selling Government Planning, Networks Silent as Economies Stumble
• Federal Pollution OK -- Reporters Assume Government Is Good for Environment
• A Smidgen of Skeptical Scientists -- TV News Coverage of Kyoto Conference Short on Opposition
• Are Trade Deficits Really Bad News? -- Guest Editorial, by Daniel T. Griswold
• Kudos -- Networks Quick to Respond to Irradiation

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November

• Who Cares About Seniors’ Freedom? -- Guest Editorial, by Naomi Lopez
• No Green Skepticism Allowed -- Issue Analysis: Network Coverage of Global Warming
• Page One: Mandating a Health Care Crisis -- Reporters Ignore Role of Regulations in Uninsured Problem

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October

• The Calamity That Never Occurred -- Guest Editorial by Stephen Moore
• The Tragedy of Low Inflation -- Network’s Mourn Small Cost of Living Increases
• Kudos -- U.S. News
• Still Missing Climate Data -- Network Global Warming Stories Ignore Science Angles

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September

• Is NAFTA on the Fast Track? -- Guest Editorial, by Robert Batterson
• Who Pays Taxes? Don’t Ask Networks -- Issue Analysis: Summer Tax Coverage
• No Free Regulated Lunch -- Kudos: Reporters Point Out the Costs of Regulation
• Late to Report on Irradiation -- Networks Wait Almost Two Weeks to Present Solution to Unsafe Meat
• Kyoto Preview?

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August

• Missing Budget Facts -- Reporters Ignore Key Details of Agreement
• Striking Out on UPS Coverage -- Issue Analysis: Teamsters Strike Against United Parcel Service
• Special Interest Exposed -- Kudos: AARP, Tax Code Come Under Fire
• Clarification
• The Clinton Boom? -- Guest Editorial, by John E. Berthoud

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July

• Flat Earth Environmental Reporting -- Networks Assume Science Supports EPA Regulations, Ignore Contrary Evidence
• Accepting the Democrats' Tax Math -- Issue Analysis: Coverage of the Tax Reform Debate
• Question Global Warming Authorities -- Guest Editorial, by David A. Ridenour

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June

• Different Shades of Green Reporting -- Networks Ignore Environmental Stories When Democrats Disagree
• Hollywood Hates Success -- Issue Analysis: Big Business vs. Small Business on Prime Time
• Kudos: USA Today's Anne Willette
• Tell the Truth: It's a New Entitlement -- Guest Editorial, by Sue A. Blevins

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May

• Ignoring Entitlements, Again -- Only CNN's Sesno Looks Beyond Press Releases About Budget Deal
• How to Get Ahead on TV -- Issue Analysis: Entertainment TV Characters on the Job
• Kudos: Zahn and Myers -- Reporters Explore Unique Angels
• Missing Details
• Patently Curious Lack of Coverage -- Guest Editorial, by Daniel J. Murphy

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April

• Too Much Growth? Too Many Jobs? -- Network Reporters Wedded to the Phillips Curve
• Kudos: ABC News
• Feminism Trumps Truth -- Media Ignore Holes in Study of Women's Earnings
• Prime Time TV: Beware of Investors -- Issue Analysis: Entertainment Television's Portrayal of Investment
• Tax Hike Hide and Seek -- Guest Editorial, by Michael Schuyler

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March

• Who's Milking Consumers? -- Networks Blame Only Stores and Processors, Ignore Federal Subsidies
• Forgetting the Scary Fiscal Future -- Issue Analysis: Entitlements and Budget Coverage
• Hoping For Socialized Medicine -- Chicago Hope Lobbies for Health Care Reform
• Diversify Digital TV -- Guest Editorial by Robert L. Johnson

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February

• First Amendment Slackers -- Reporters Ignore Free Speech Argument Against Campaign Finance Restrictions
• Kudos: NBC's Mike Jensen and Time's Nancy Gibbs
• Muckraking -- or Muckfaking? -- Issue Review: Food Lion vs. Prime Time Live
• KidCare: Three Questions -- Guest Editorial, by Michael Tanner and Naomi Lopez

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January

• When Facts Get in the Way -- Guest Editorial by Jack Scism
• Social Security Sycophants -- Networks Ignore System's Sorry Rate of Return
• Is Business Week Anti-Business? -- Issue Analysis: Business Week Editorials and Government Policy

 

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