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Wisconsinites get to choose the direction of their court today. A vote on whether to keep current Wisconsin Supreme Court judge David Prosser or elect JoAnne Kloppenburg has repercussions that will be felt across the Midwest.
So how exactly does one slant a story to skew the facts one way while acting as a legitimate columnist? The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund provides a good example and we’ll go through parts of this column to give an example of how you can tell one side of a story and make it seem like you are trying to be fair.
In all fairness, you can find similar stories while reading liberal columnists about the same story.
Collective bargaining, FOIA’s and school paper censorship are among the news being covered throughout the Midwest this week.
Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist was at Southern Illinois University Carbondale to talk with students about her book, “The Warmth of Other Suns”. After a short discussion about being a journalist and her book, Wilkerson opened the room up for questions. One student raised his hand and asked her how her experience as a woman, not just a woman but a black woman, affected her and her work. “I never really had the option to worry about that,” Wilkerson said. “I’m not saying there weren’t challenges, I just didn’t have time to think about it.”
Jim Crow had many faces. One face of Jim Crow was the simple act of many white southerners stepping on a bus. If they didn’t want to sit with people in the front of the bus, they grabbed the colored-only sign and moved it back a row. Blacks in the back would then be forced ever farther to the back, while just one white person sat in the seat for whites only.