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1. November 12, 2012 06:50 AM

   Context-free market reporting on a post-election dive

   First-term bull market goes unmentioned after a November 7 stock dip

   By Ryan Chittum

   The stock market dive the day after President Obama was re-elected, dropping 320 points, or 2.4 percent. The Drudge Report, the testing ground/early-warning system for right-wing memes, put the Dow as its top post-election story, telling Obama to "own it": Fair enough, but as I wrote on Twitter the other day, if Obama has to own that one-day 2.4 percent...

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2. November 30, 2012 12:41 AM

   Hot air Rises Above on CNBC

   An anchor pins a minor dip in stocks on the TV appearance of a minor politician

   By Ryan Chittum

   Rise Above, if you're among the 99.95 percent of the country who don't watch CNBC on a given day, is the network's campaign against the government for not putting "politics" aside to come to a budget agreement that's to the stock market's liking. It's also an unlikely crusade, as I noted last week, from a news organization with some of...

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