A major national media outlet ranks N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper among its top 10 options for Democratic presidential candidates in 2024. The Washington Post lists Cooper at No. 9 in the rankings unveiled Saturday.
The current actions of the Democrat majority on the state Supreme Court, their liberal activist supporters, and the editorial writers of the state’s largest newspapers have made their position clear. Hundreds of years of precedent, tradition, and the written code of judicial ethics do not apply to you if you are elected by the citizens...
Many of the problems with modern American politics stem from a media obsessed with creating a dramatic narrative and politicians dying to be on center stage. We don’t have to look any further than Raleigh’s recent case of the missing zebra cobra (N. nigricincta) to find an example. Residents of Wake County were served nearly...
This week, a column from the Carolina Journal was cited in an article in the Triangle area’s local News & Observer. The column, written by Dallas Woodhouse, in “The Woodshed” contained analysis and informed speculation after U.S. Census numbers revealed that North Carolina would gain a 14th U.S. House seat. In the initial version, Woodhouse presented...
On April 5, 2021, The News & Observer published an opinion piece in opposition of girls sports at the middle and high school level being exlusively for biological females. The piece was written by Doriane Coleman, Juniper Eastwood, and Martina Navratilova. The authors expressed dissatisfaction with H.B. 358, claiming that the bill goes “beyond what is...
The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer have offered up a wonderful example of the power of free and independent thought. The example, in the form of a pair of wildly disparate editorials, was probably an accident and most likely elicited audible gasps and groans from the staffs of the respective newspapers. But...
Some reporters make mistakes that aren’t very innocent. Others distort the information they’ve gathered to push agendas. But rarely do those who engage in such malpractice suffer any public embarrassment — and it’s rarer still that their employers face any monetary setback for publishing those errors. But that actually happened in October, when a jury awarded...
The contretemps over Obama's jobs speech scheduling is a perfect example of how the mainstream media acts as the propaganda arm for liberals and Democrats.
