Student newspapers cover Trump’s attacks on DEI,free speech
While the national press debates President Trump’s DEI initiatives at colleges and universities across the country, college newspapers find themselves……
Author: Scott Lambert
One Central Illinois TV station shows how local media should cover coronavirus story
Covid-19 morphed from a concern to a global problem to a local one, spreading from handful of states to more……
Limbaugh destroyed media’s credibility
Rush Limbaugh was never a journalist. But he did more to harm journalism than any other human being in the……
A whistleblower from Missouri looks back at the painful consequences
On the Senate floor as the impeachment trial rushed to an end, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,handed a message to Chief……
St. Louis’ forgotten espionage case
By SCOTT LAMBERT / Former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, a Missourian who graduated from Millikin University and Washington University Law School, recently was sentenced to 42 months for violating multiple counts of the Espionage Act. Sterling was convicted as New York Times reporter James Risen’s source in a chapter of the book State Of War, which described a botched CIA attempt to hinder Iran’s nuclear program. For the press, the story was strictly about Risen’s battle with the government and First Amendment issues. The media never questioned Sterling’s guilt or innocence. As a group, the press stayed on the Risen as hero narrative, leaving Sterling alone.