Issue Area: Economy


Extra Articles and Studies
No Hope for the Homeless at the New York Times (March/April 1990) By Jim Naureckas

A Poverty of Coverage: Why aren’t the poor on the media agenda? (September/ October 2007) By Steve Rendall

Cheerleading for Inequality: Rich getting richer is all for the better, pundits say (September/ October 2007) By Dean Baker

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Bono, I Presume?: Covering Africa Through Celebrities (May/June 2007) By Julie Hollar

Media on Medicare: Don’t mess with success—or corporate profits (January/February 2007) By Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas

The Smell of Success: After 10 years of 'welfare reform,' ignoring the human impact (November/December 2006) By Neil deMause

Sidebar: 'They Didn’t Even Know This Was Mardi Gras' (July/August 2006) By Neil deMause

Katrina's Vanishing Victims: Media forget the 'rediscovered' poor (July/August 2006) By Neil deMause

Sidebar: ‘Can’t We Give This a Rest?’ (July/August 2006) By Neil deMause

The Morales Moral: Defy neoliberalism, face media wrath (July/August 2006) By Julie Hollar

Stossel’s "Stupid" Schools: A beginner’s course in deceptive reporting (May/June 2006) By Peter Hart and Janine Jackson

Good News! The Rich Get Richer: Lack of applause for falling wages is media mystery (March/April 2006) By Janine Jackson

20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

“Saying What They’ve Been Thinking”: Racial stereotypes in Katrina commentary (November/December 2005) By Jacqueline Bacon

The World’s Most Generous Misers: Tsunami reporting misrepresented U.S. giving (September/October 2005) By Ben Somberg

Europe Says No—to Pundits’ Advice: “Painful reforms” find few takers (September/October 2005) By Seth Ackerman

Media to City: Play Ball: Making New York safe from democracy (September/October 2005) By Neil deMause

Strings Attached: Telecom industry’s spin machine casts net over community broadband (September/October 2005) By Michelle Chen

Defeated by Democracy: Reported as triumph, Iraq elections were really Bush team’s nightmare (May/June 2005) By Seth Ackerman

Fuzzy Math: Media buy White House line on “deficit reduction” (May/June 2005) By Neil deMause

Selling the Social Security Scare: A "fix" that won’t solve a "crisis" that doesn’t exist (January/February 2005) By Seth Ackerman

It's the Economy, Stupidly: Jobs reporting protects Bush's job (September/October 2004) By Peter Hart

The FTAA Is None of Your Business: A challenge to democracy (January/February 2003) By Rachel Coen

Celebrating as the Rich Get Richer: Stock market coverage treats gains for the few as good news for all (July/August 2002) By Dean Baker

Report from Porto Alegre: Is another media world possible? (May/June 2002) By Jeff Cohen

The "Oh Really?" Factor: Bill O'Reilly spins facts and statistics (May/June 2002) By Peter Hart

What's Not Talked About on Sunday Morning?: Issues of corporate power are not on the agenda (September/October 2001) By George Farah and Justin Elga

Free Trade = Freedom: FTAA coverage spins pro-business as pro-democracy (July/August 2001) By Rachel Coen

The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt (July/August 2001) By Seth Ackerman

Spinning the Tax Cut: Press helps out White House by minimizing the richest's gain (May/June 2001) By Seth Ackerman

For Love or Money? Economics takes a backseat in network reports about working mothers (January/February 2001) By Jennifer L. Pozner

Surplus Shell Game: Pundits bent on fiscal discipline define away the surplus (November /December 2000) By Seth Ackerman

Mainstream News Coverage Of Economics: Elite Bias Rules (3/1/00) By Jeff Cohen

The Ever-Present Yet Nonexistent Poor: Think Tank Monitor (January/February 1999) By Seth Ackerman

Greed Is Bad Reporting (Update April 1998)

Wild in Deceit: Why "Teen Violence" is Poverty Violence in Disguise (March/April 1996) By Mike Males

Let Them Eat Baguettes: U.S. Press Teaches Austerity to French Strikers (March/April 1996) By Janine Jackson

20 Reasons Not to Trust the Journal Editorial Page (September/October 1995) By Steve Rendall and Jim Naureckas

Are All Yeltsin Critics "Hard-Line" -- Or Is That Just the U.S. Media's Party Line? (January/February 1994) By Jeff Cohen

Poor Mothers on Crime Spree!: News Flash: (November/December 1993) By Veena Cabreros-Sud

The Way Things Aren't:: Rush Limbaugh Debates Reality (July/August 1994)

S&L Coverage Ignores Root Causes and Progressive Options (March/April 1989) By Patrick Bond

Radio Broadcasts
Eric Holt-Giménez on food crises, Mark Schapiro on environmental toxins (4/18/08)

Mark Weisbrot on Colombia trade deal, Rick Perlstein on John McCain (4/11/08)

Peter Hart on 2008 primaries, Kali Akuno on New Orleans public housing (1/11/08)

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Robert Parry on 'Why We Write,' Karlos Schmieder on gentrification (11/16/07)

Cynthia Boaz on Burma, Dean Baker on Social Security (10/5/07)

William Greider on Alan Greenspan, Anthony Arnove on Iraq contractors (9/21/07)

Neil deMause on FAIR's poverty study, Alex Koppelman on Lou Dobbs and U.S. Border Patrol criminals (9/7/07)

Heather Boushey on Census poverty report, Scott Horton on 'Coups 'R Us' (8/31/07)

David Cole on torture 'ban,' Dean Baker on economic myths (7/27/07)

Jared Bernstein on taxes, Sunday Dare on Nigeria (4/20/07)

Steve Rendall on Air America, Jeremy Weir Alderson on Homelessness Marathon (2/16/07)

Rick Perlstein on Conservatives & Martin Luther King, Sarah Olson on Watada Subpoena (1/19/07)

Arianna Huffington on Woodward's State of Denial, Sarah Anderson on Wal-Mart's pundits (10/6/06)

Sue Sturgis on Katrina anniversary, Heather Boushey on welfare 'reform' (9/1/06)

Tim Rutten on Enron, Peter Dreier on mine safety (6/2/06)

Aaron Glantz on Iraq, Doug Henwood on immigration (5/26/06)

Dave Lindorff on Bush & impeachment, Dean Baker on tax cuts (5/19/06)

Tyson Slocum on gas prices, Charlie Savage on Bush's signing statements (5/5/06)

Jeff Chester on COPE Act, Ann-Louise Colgan on World Bank (4/28/06)

Daniel Price on video news releases, Jeff Faux on globalization (4/7/06)

Amitabh Pal on India, Eric Deggans on Hurricane Katrina (3/10/06)

Jordan Flaherty on Katrina reconstruction, Eric Boehlert on the K Street Project (1/27/06)

Patrick Cockburn on Iraq coverage, Brian Dominick on the Sago Mine story (1/13/06)

Nancy Cauthen on economic "good news," James Bamford on Rendon Group (12/9/05)

Jamie Court on Gas Prices and Jonathan Landay on FEMA & Michael Brown (9/16/05)

Rosa Brooks and Sheelah Kolhatkar on Hurricane Katrina (9/9/05)

Will Bunch on Hurricane Katrina and Christopher Martin on Northwest Strike (9/2/05)

Antonia Juhasz on Iraq constitution, Brian Komar on Darfur TV ads (8/26/05)

Simona Sharoni on Gaza Withdrawal, Myron Levin on Lawsuit Reporting (8/19/05)

Scott Lipscomb on Iraq Body Count, Charlie Cray on "America's Heartland" (7/29/05)

Rosa Brooks on Judith Miller, Patrice O'Neill on The Fire Next Time (7/8/05)

Chris Slevin on CAFTA, Amitabh Pal on Tom Friedman (6/24/05)

Salih Booker on Africa Aid, Mark Benjamin on Iraq Body Counts (6/17/05)

David Swanson on Downing Street Memo, Betsy Leondar-Wright on Class Reporting (6/10/05)

Karen Hansen-Kuhn on CAFTA, Ray McGovern on "Smoking Gun Memo" (5/13/05)

Richard Kogan on Bush's budget, Melanie Sloan on network TV ad policies (2/11/05)

Dean Baker on Bush budget, Eric Boehlert on Bush/National Guard (2/13/04)

Action Alerts and Advisories
Cutting Wal-Mart a Break: NY Times goes soft on retail giant (8/18/06)

Globalization vs. Growth: NYT op-ed omits stats that debunk pro-corporate claims (4/11/06)

Still Covering for Wal-Mart: ABC report has no space for critics (9/23/05)