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Why Do We Take So Many Drugs?

The GypsyNesters | Posted 03.22.2013 | Fifty

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We are taking way too many drugs for dubious or exaggerated ailments. What the drug companies are doing now is promoting drugs for long-term use to essentially healthy people.

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The Top 20 Stories Of 2012

Posted 01.16.2013 | Media

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At least Mitt Romney won something in 2012. According to the Tyndall Report, the most covered news story of 2012 on evening news programs was the ...

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Biggest Financial Scandal In History Is Getting No Airtime

Mark Gongloff | Posted 10.01.2012 | Business

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The biggest financial scandal in history has gotten all of zero minutes' air time on the ABC and NBC nightly news broadcasts and only a little more time than that on CBS and the major cable news channels.

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Scott Pelley: I'm Going To Be No. 1

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.06.2012 | Media

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NEW YORK (AP) — As Scott Pelley marks his first year as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," he's got his eye on the top of the mountain. ...

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Is the Media's ADD Hurting Our Country?

Abby Huntsman | Posted 07.13.2012 | Politics

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So, here we are: a world of commentators, Tweeters, bloggers, and citizens with one of the most powerful tools developed in the history of mankind (the Internet) at our fingertips, literally, but how do we plan to use it? And, what is our collective responsibility?

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Comcast's Evening News: A Giant Promo Machine

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.08.2012 | Business

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Walter Cronkite brought us the evening news for decades; we watched in awe. Uncle Walter packaged stories of import that made tens of millions stop, s...

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Evening Newscasts On The Rise Again

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.17.2011 | Media

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NEW YORK — There's new life in broadcast television's evening news shows, in part because of forces such as 24-hour cable news that were once th...

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SHOCKER: Evening News Ratings GROW

Posted 11.20.2011 | Media

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The 2010-2011 season just wrapped up and the results for evening newscasts are good. For the first time in nine years, all three major networks sa...

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David Muir Ratings Improve For ABC News

Posted 10.24.2011 | Media

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David Muir's ratings are going up at ABC News. Since Muir took over the weekend edition of "ABC World News" in February, the program has grown its...

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WATCH: CBS News Makes A Pretty Big Claim In New Ad

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 10.11.2011 | Media

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CBS' new advertising campaign makes an audacious claim: that the network "invented original reporting on television." The 30-second commercial deb...

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CBS News Chief Takes Swipe At Katie Couric

Posted 10.03.2011 | Media

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CBS News chairman Jeff Fager had some rather unkind words for Katie Couric on Wednesday. Fager was at the Television Critics Association summer pre...

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Evening News Ratings Up Across The Board

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 09.12.2011 | Media

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NEW YORK — Viewership is up at the "CBS Evening News" since Scott Pelley took over as anchor in early June. Then again, the same can be said for...

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Sawyer, Williams Respond To Couric's Departure

Posted 06.27.2011 | Media

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Katie Couric's fellow evening news anchors reacted on Tuesday to the news that she is officially stepping down as the host of the "CBS Evening News." ...

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ALL-TIME LOW: Evening News Ratings Hit Collective Rock Bottom

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

By David Bauder, The Associated Press The NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts combined for a dubious record last week: the average of 18.7 million peo...

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Evening News Ratings DOWN Across The Board

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

All three network evening news broadcasts saw their ratings decline in the second quarter, the New York Times' Bill Carter notes. Both ABC and CBS sa...

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GOP Leaders Play Games While Oil Pours Into the Gulf

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

We have real problems in the United States that have to be addressed. But how can we solve anything when too many political leaders are more interested in seizing on issues to score political points?

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Evening News Ratings: ABC, CBS See Worst Quarters Ever While NBC Thrives

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

The "CBS Evening News" and ABC's "World News" have just closed their worst quarter on record. The New York Times' Bill Carter takes a look at the fir...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Max Kolonko | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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The hot head from Fort Collins reached his goal. We got a good show -- no complaints. Never mind the puking child.

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"NBC Nightly News" Easily Wins 2008-2009 Season, Up Year-Over-Year

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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While the conventional wisdom says the evening news is dying, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" actually grew year-over-year, easily winning the ...

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"NBC Nightly News" Sees Best Ratings In Months

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" delivered its best week since April, averaging 8.379 million total viewers last week. Thursday night's broadca...

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"CBS Evening News," "ABC World News" Hit All Time Ratings Lows

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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Both the "CBS Evening News" and ABC's "World News" suffered all-time ratings lows last week, the week of June 15, 2009. Both broadcast's anchors &mda...

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For The Last Time, I'm Not Connie Chung

Kaity Tong | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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Let me set the record straight. Connie Chung is the one married to Maury Povich, not me. At least not since the last time I checked.

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"NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" On A Ratings Roll

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" handily won the evening news ratings race last week, beating ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" by over 1.2...

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Walters On TV News' Future: Only Programs 10 Years From Now Will Be The "Morning Shows"

Reuters | Paul J. Gough | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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A lot has changed in the "big get" TV interview business since ABC's Barbara Walters and "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft began. While the per...

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