STILL GETTING COOLIDGE WRONG AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
For more than 86 years now, they still can’t get Coolidge right. America’s 30th president has been quoted year after year……
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Should J-School professors fear FOIA?
Journalism professors, especially those teaching Public Affairs Reporting courses, routinely tell their students that Freedom of Information Act Requests are……
Judicial posts should not be for sale
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.
Slanting a story: The basics
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.
Liberal “Lights Out” At the NYT Op-Ed Page. So, What Does it Mean?
March 2011 has been a cruel month for America’s progressives and liberals. Two of their best known voices, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert, quit their columns on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times.
Readers will miss them. Right-wingers will praise them as worthy opponents and chuckle. Does their absence from our most prestigious newspaper mean anything more significant for the progressive agenda or for journalism?