On Wednesday evening, my wife was kind enough to take the kids solo for the night and let me go to a “Dinner and a Fight” event in Raleigh organized by Braver Angels. The group focuses on improving civility in the culture through dialogue between the left and right, which they call “blues” and “reds.”...
Poultry farmers are an important part of their communities. Some have been raising chickens there for generations. But McClatchy’s big-city papers ran a series of stories in December attacking North Carolina’s poultry industry. The papers did so using secretive donations from a mysterious climate activist organization called One Earth Fund. Google’s Data-Driven Reporting Project (unknowingly?)...
Recently, Judge Roger Thomas Benitez, a senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, ruled that the 1989 California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional. The ruling prompted the media to fall back on a common yet egregiously incorrect claim that the AR-15 is the “weapon of choice” for mass...
It’s flattering when the executive editor of the News & Observer calls to ask if he could meet me to discuss a column I’d written. But when John Drescher came to my office, he wanted to share much more than pleasantries. He was upset that my November media column, “Connecting the wrong dots,” had taken...
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...
Recent leaks expose overly cozy relationships between the Democratic Party and mainstream media outlets.
Mainstream outlets steer clear of the traditional notion of delivering news “without fear or favor.”
National news media outlets choose odd lines of inquiry for potential presidential candidates.
Mainstream outlets ignore major news involving the abortion provider.
A North Carolina reporter takes a cheap shot in a recent obituary.
A news outlet’s willingness to own up to its mistakes says a lot about its credibility.
