Energy
2006
February 10 -
USA Today
Insists Mine Safety Fines Aren’t High Enough
February 8 -
Econ
101: What Happens When We Subsidize
February 8 -
The
Nuclear Option
February 8 -
Ironic
Media Position Follows Bush’s Declaration of Oil Addiction
January 31 -
Media Emphasize Exxon Profit, Restart Focus on
Windfall Taxes
January 26 -
ABC’s Lisa Stark Goes After Oil Profits
January 11 -
Post finds banks bending over backwards; Media ride Willie Nelson’s (biodiesel) bandwagon; CNN anchor vows to throw himself in front of a bus.
January 5 -
NBC Savidges the Mining Industry
January 5 -
On the Inefficient Road Again
January 4 -
CBS Passes Off Coal Critic as Dispassionate Expert
January 4 -
Maybe Serwer Needs Another Cup of Joe
2005
December 21 -
USA Today shows a town eager for a nuclear plant; ABC, NBC gun-shy on calling transit strike illegal; Lou Dobbs’s deficit of economic knowledge widens.
December 14 -
Herman Cain: A Whale of a Tale
December 14 -
The Media’s Top 10 Economic Myths of 2005
December 13 -
CBS’s Axelrod Heats Up Energy Price By One-Third
November 30 -
Post reports how states restrict medical technology; CBS’s gas price reporting running on fumes; CNN reporters heap attacks on restaurant industry.
November 28 -
CBS Reporter Misrepresents Pump Prices
November 16 -
CNN’s Serwer Hopes Senate Has ‘Fortitude’ to Pass Oil Tax
November 16 -
The Gray Lady pans tax hike in Germany; CBS shades solar energy report; Fox News burns ‘fair and balanced’ motto in ‘The Heat Is On.’
November 16 -
The Trouble with Forecasting
November 14 -
CNN Barks up Wrong Tree on Oil Profits
November 11 -
All the Benefits, None of the Costs
November 10 -
Who’s Profiteering Now?
November 9 -
NPR goes free market?; If it’s economic news, it must be bad; Sheriff Dobbs in Sherwood Forest.
November 8 -
Dobbs Takes Aim at Oil Companies
November 3 -
Media Myths: Gas Hysteria - Media Hype Harm of Rising Gas Prices Despite Drop of 45 Cents Per Gallon
November 2 -
Fueling ‘Outrage’
November 2 -
Your teacher today is…; the trouble with Lou Dobbs; and the way to save people from malaria.
November 1 -
Herman Cain: Punishing Profits
October 28 -
Media in a Frenzy over Oil Profits
October 27 -
‘Today’ Hits an Anti-Corporate ‘Gusher’
October 26 -
A regular story with a premium result; have a blue Christmas; and the ‘silly’ side of CNN
October 26 -
Who’s Afraid of a Little Inflation?
October 19 -
A fair view of FairTax; the problem with calling for government aid; and why the Four Horsemen are over the top.
October 17 -
‘War, Famine, Pestilence and Death’
October 5 -
Herman Cain: Free the Gas Market
September 28 -
More Doom That Wasn’t
September 26 -
U.S. vs. Oil Refiners: Are Profits ‘Justified’?
September 21 -
Dan Gainor: Network Images Pump Up Gas Prices
September 21 -
The Picture of Hype
September 7 -
A rare, fair view of Wal-Mart; more hype about global warming and hurricanes; and, of course, more bad gas reporting.
September 7 -
Strike one, Strike two…
September 6 -
Gas Prices Fuel More Bad Reporting
August 31 -
An Attempt to Cover Outsourcing; and Two Good Reasons Not to Read The Washington Post
August 31 -
Refining: the Untold Story of the Oil Chain
August 26 -
Media Fail to Realize Oil Not Even ‘Near Records’
August 25 -
Saving ‘at the Pump’ Means Paying More for Vehicles
August 24 -
It’s not oil, it’s refining capacity; the sun’s addictive rays; oil’s “breaking point.”
August 24 -
Media Take a Bite Out of CAFE Guidelines
August 23 -
More Media Go Drilling for Viewers
August 22 -
Times Scares Readers with the ‘Crisis Ahead’
August 19 -
Missing the Point on Prices
August 18 -
Gas Hysteria : Oil Prices Drop and Networks Ignore It
August 17 -
Broken records: Media repeat phony claim of all-time high gas prices
August 17 -
Decent economics, ignoring a climate change treaty and a bizarre view of the cause for African starvation.
August 17 -
Gas Hysteria : Networks continue gas price hype
August 12 -
Pain at the Pump
August 11 -
Morning Shows Fill Up With Hype on Gas Prices
August 3 -
Energy: Regulation and Rewards, not Freedom
July 13 -
Memo to Media: Gas Prices Still Far from All-time High
July 6 -
All’s Well With Oil
June 6 -
FX Looks Left to Peak at Oil
June 1 -
Network Doomsday Warnings Run Out of Gas
May 20 -
NBC Fuels Gas Price Hysteria
April 30 -
Networks Play Up Energy Politics, Ignore Real Costs
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