Julia A. Seymour

Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business
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Ad Age Wonders if Sugar Will ‘Survive’ Regulatory Onslaught

“Large sugary drinks” got a reprieve this week after a judge struck down New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on drinks above a certain size and in only some dining establishments. But ...
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Fuelish: NBC Devotes 3 Times As Much Airtime to Gas Prices in 2008, as 2013

Comparison shows NBC News far less willing to report soaring gas prices under Obama.
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Pump Prices Taking More Out of Wallets, But Not Much of Newscasts

Since Jan. 18, networks spent a combined total of eight minutes discussing the increase.
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Economic Growth Turns Negative, CBS Only Network to Admit Rate

NBC ignores GDP, while ABC dances around the ‘speed bump’ with positive report; print downplays drop.

Federal Revenue Erupts a Ginormous 267,869% In The 100 Years of Income Tax

NTU's Pete Sepp says income tax made way for 'massive fiscal expansion' of government.
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ABC Touts Housing ‘Comeback’ on Day of Confidence Drop

Tax hike makes consumer confidence plummet, evening news shows silent.
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Seven Millionaire Journalists who Cheer For Higher Taxes

100 years after the income tax liberal anchors still support tax increases.
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Left Swoons for Loony ‘Magic Coin’ Plan

Campaign in full swing to have Treasury invent trillion-dollar denomination to stave off spending cuts.
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‘Promised Land’ Continues Hollywood Anti-Fracking Campaign

Damon claims he wants to start conversation, but movie depicts gas company employees as liars.
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer: ‘No More Taxes’

Following jobs report, tells ‘Squawk Box’ audience government should address Medicare, not raise taxes.
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Fiscal Cliff Deal’s $4 Trillion Price Tag Ignored by 5 out of 6 Shows

On day of the deal only one of the network morning and evening shows mentioned the hefty cost of the deal because of the lack of spending cuts.
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Five Reasons The Networks Have No Business Covering Business (Or the Economy)

In 2012 alone, from approaching a fiscal cliff to Occupy movement, media proved unable to fairly cover many issues.
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FrackNation to premiere on AXS TV in January

Filmmaker Phelim McAleer’s movie which he says ‘tells the truth about fracking’ will debut on television Jan. 22.
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Media Join Left-Wing Assault on Grover Norquist

Man the left called an ‘anti-tax jihadist’ garners media attention over GOP ‘mutiny,’ after earlier left-wing attacks on him.
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Networks Blamed Feds For Katrina Failure, Credit Them for Sandy

When it comes to natural disasters, ABC, CBS, NBC coverage reveals double standard.
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Upside Down Economics

Despite much better economy, networks blamed President Bush more than President Obama for financial troubles.  
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Experts: Job Spike Mostly Part-timers, Home-Based Jobs

 Liberal, conservative economists criticize employment numbers. 
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Math Is Hard: People Flee Workforce, But ‘Morning Joe’ Sees ‘Good News’

Crowd in background of MSNBC morning show cheers loudly for 96,000 jobs, lowest labor force participation since Sept. 1981.
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During Democratic Convention, Two of Three Networks Ignore Dire Jobs Picture

For three nights, ABC and NBC fail to mention the national unemployment rate or the ‘nearly 13 million’ people looking for work.
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Emails Show Coziness Between Reporter and Climate Scientist

FOIA reveals St. Louis Post-Dispatch environmental writer ‘sympathetic’ to alarmism, doesn’t want to let skeptics ‘stand unchallenged.’