A Senate campaign ad, paid for by the pro-Budd Club for Growth, cites the John Locke Foundation as its source for the textbook claim. As a former chairman and current board member of the think tank in question, I feel the need to correct the record: no one at Locke ever said former governor “put liberals in charge of state textbooks.”
On February 17, U.S. Sen. Tom Tillis shared a Fox News article on his Facebook page that was later flagged for containing “false information” by the social media’s fact checkers. The article was related to Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. In the article, the Fox News reporter...
Opinion polls and everyday experience confirm that most North Carolinians, like most Americans, are dissatisfied with the way we practice politics.
Everyone seems to be talking about fake news these days. Enabled by social media, its originators deal in hoaxes and disinformation. The objectives vary, with some wishing merely to sow confusion, others attempting to influence behavior. The intention is always, however, to mislead. Fake news is old. Benjamin Franklin created a fictional story about Indian...
Don’t you hate it when you read a story in a newspaper or online, or watch a news report on TV, and the reporter seems to have completely missed the essential question? I know I do. It happens more than you think. Sometimes it’s a product of lack of time, in the case of a...
Journalists ought to exercise more caution in reporting statements that advance an advocacy group's narrative.
The anti-Tillis group had good reason to believe that the original source of its "80 percent got a tax hike" claim, the North Carolina Justice Center, meant to say just that.
How many times have you heard the claim that the 2013 tax reform bill will result in a tax increase for 80 percent of North Carolinians?
Liberal "fact-check" organizations have strange notions of what is a "lie" and what constitutes a "takeover".
The News & Observer calls Etheridge misleading for something the newspaper itself did two weeks earlier.
Math-challenged reporters don't know how to read a budget.
