Tonight, the first of six public Jan. 6 hearings will air in prime time on all major news channels. The hearings are the result of a multi-million-dollar investigation by the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack. It was formed by a house resolution that passed the chamber 252-175, with 35 Republicans...
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,...
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson had the courage to question the actions of the Obama administration, and paid for it in myriad ways.
The fawning Western press continues to paint a flattering picture of Castro's Cuba with no justification whatsoever.
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.
It was love at first sight when the press corps got a load of Barack Obama’s flashy performance at the 2004 DNC. That’s when the infatuation began.
The Washington press corps is showing signs of getting over its Obama swoon.
Rather than hindering the U.S. war effort, the media should investigate terrorists' infiltration of our homeland.
RALEIGH — At breakfast one morning in 1992, while visiting a friend in the ancient Russian city of Kostroma, I asked my host about a black box sitting on a shelf above the kitchen table. “Oh," he said, looking up from his kasha and tea, "that’s our Stalin radio.”
The role of journalism in a democratic society is to inform the public to make sound decisions and, thereby, lead to the preservation of democracy. By inference, then, journalism’s role should include exposing those who try to destroy the legitimacy of institutions in that society. In this latter role they have recently failed.
In the 1971 Raquel Welch western “Hannie Caulder” there’s a scene in which Ernest Borgnine and Jack Elam tell Strother Martin that he “lied” when he told them there would be no shotgun guard on a stagecoach they were trying to rob. “That wasn’t a lie. That was a mistake,” Martin said to his illiterate brothers, who, not being mainstream media reporters, actually understood the distinction.
