While all our efforts should be dedicated to supporting the victims and addressing the areas of greatest need throughout the region, when anyone makes false or misleading remarks about our hardworking members or our supporters in the legislature, we will respond with the truth.
Baiting someone to click on an irrelevant article may be a small victory, but it's a bad long-term strategy. Because some of the those who click may never click again.
A recent article in The Free Press, by Uri Berliner, a NPR senior editor who has worked at the iconic news station for 25 years, exposed how his organization, like many other mainstream media publications, lost the trust of the American people. Berliner identifies himself as part of the wealthy, white progressive elite, the stereotype...
Previously, we featured some of North Carolina’s eyepopping ag economy statistics and offered, “It’s not hard to see why rural North Carolinians register massive favorability numbers for the farmers in their area.” So what happens when a big city paper airdrops into ag country to stir the pot? Nothing good. *** First, a reminder of...
Viewers and readers suffer when media outlets hype provocative comments taken out of context.
Editor’s note: This book review by Jon Sanders first appeared at the American Institute for Economic Research. “Jen realized she had never experienced this before — profound cognitive dissonance.” A moment of crisis strikes the title character of George Leef’s new novel, “The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale”(Bombardier Books, 2022). How will Jen handle it? Does she...
The fourth estate, journalism, is racing to receivership unless we can rescue it from its rapacious self. The hubris hasn’t always been this bad, this blatant, or this biased, yet it worsens daily. In the town I grew up in, Nashville, Tennessee, there were two newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, one for the morning,...
We have so much to fear. From an innumerable list of things natural and manmade. If that is, we choose to effectually succumb to the doubt and the uncertainty. The mainstream media, in fact, encapsulates that fear and profits from it, driving ratings and online viewership. Niche websites, coming from all directions, do much of...
Enemy is a strong word. We have political opponents. But enemies? It’s hard to think of fellow Americans as enemies. Yet that’s the world we occupy today. For the corporate media, it’s a world of their own making. As corporate media voluntarily relinquish their role as reporters of facts in favor of a predominantly progressive-left...
The narrative of the Nikole Hannah-Jones saga that has engulfed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been pretty straightforward: Evil Republicans on the Board of Trustees unexpectedly deny the fundamental academic right of tenure to a black female journalist because of politics and racism. The reality is a lot more complicated. Reasonable...
My undergraduate degree is in journalism, and my graduate degree is in history. That just means I’m interested in the history of journalism. In our constitutional republic, the importance of a free and honest press and informed citizenry can’t be overstated. As I look at the state of media today, I’m thankful that independent news...
