NC Republican candidates are in a lose-lose situation: condemn Robinson’s alleged actions and alienate base voters who don't believe the story, or don't distance themselves and lose moderate voters.
Publications, particularly those local to NC, lacked the basic level of journalistic scrutiny on the story, not bothering to review statutes or see how other organizations register voters.
The UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees agreed to redirect $2.3 million originally allocated for DEI initiatives towards public safety. This is positive news; although, one wouldn’t know it from reading the mainstream media.
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...
Over the weekend, I was privileged to be in attendance at the John Locke Foundation’s Carolina Liberty Conference. Among the highlights of the weekend (which included recording an episode of our weekly show “The Debrief” in the hotel lobby) was a media panel, hosted by Carolina Journal editor-in-chief Donna King, discussing the current state of...
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.”...
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...
It's hard for the public to make fair assessments of conservative education reforms when all they read and hear is misguided spin.
Last month, The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News and Observer launched a full-frontal assault on North Carolina’s booming poultry industry. The coordinated reporting from the papers charged that the industry is “cloaked in secrecy,” even as the Charlotte and Raleigh newspapers themselves decline to share much detail about the special interests that funded the hit...
Even Pravda has to now tip their hat to some of the American media.
st reality world is not nothing if not amusing at times.
