Tennessee seems to be a focal point of media coverage when it comes to issues dealing with religion. Controversies over building new mosques, Muslims in general and Sharia Law in particular, rage throughout the state and have garnered local and national coverage. Evolution and creationism now get their chance to share the media spotlight in…
For more than 86 years now, they still can’t get Coolidge right. America’s 30th president has been quoted year after year with mind-numbing ignorance by newspapers and television personalities as having said that “The business of America is business.” What he said, in that speech on January 17, 1925, was: “After all, the chief business of the…
Journalism professors, especially those teaching Public Affairs Reporting courses, routinely tell their students that Freedom of Information Act Requests are useful tools in rooting out the truth in a situation. And sometimes, if a journalist has a gut feeling, a FOIA request fishing expedition isn’t the worst thing. After all, if the reporter doesn’t find…
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.