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Behind Closed Doors, Racist Banter and Talk of Murdering Journalists Apr. 25, 2023
What happens behind closed doors when officials are meeting unlawfully has long been a concern of th... Read More
Helping Local News Organizations Stand Up to Big Tech Apr. 18, 2023
In one of the most pleasantly bizarre bipartisan pairings, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesot... Read More
News That Makes You Sick Mar. 31, 2023
In 2016, the prolific author and economist Thomas Sowell gave up his syndicated column after a quart... Read More
This Law Could Criminalize Everyday Conversations About Immigration Mar. 27, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
At rallies across the country, community members have been chanting "Si, se puede!" to dem... Read More
He Said What? Mar. 03, 2023
Here's another lesson from the really boring frontlines of real, small-time journalism. Because I do... Read More
Fox News and the First Amendment Mar. 02, 2023
After decades of listening to conservatives attacking First Amendment libel law as the liberal media... Read More
Either the President Is a Terrorist or a Journalist Is a Fraud. Why Doesn't Anyone Want To Find Out Which Is True? Feb. 17, 2023
Corporate ownership of media outlets and consolidation have deteriorated the quality of reporting in... Read More
The Perils of Trying to Curtail Hazily Defined 'Disinformation': The Global Disinformation Index's Controversial Ratings Illustrate the Challenge of Deciding Which Speech Belongs in That Category Feb. 15, 2023
NewsGuard, a service that rates adherence to basic principles of good journalism, gives my employer,... Read More
This Just In: Journalistic Objectivity Is Obliterated Feb. 01, 2023
The establishment media have shuffled forth to announce that their objectivity is dead. They don't r... Read More
The Biden With His Hand Out Feb. 01, 2023
The Washington Post reported this week that "allies" of Hunter Biden are considering setting up a le... Read More
We Can Now Call Economic Terrorists 'Economic Terrorists' Jan. 26, 2023
In late 2011, John Oliver and his "Daily Show" cameraman made a trek to my office, then in Providenc... Read More
How About Equal Time for the Truth? Dec. 30, 2022
Mark Twain said: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its ... Read More
Big Collusion Between Big Media and Big Government Dec. 23, 2022
An FBI agent contacts Twitter's head of trust and safety and asks him to censor every mention of a m... Read More
'-30-': An Ending, but Not the End Oct. 25, 2022
When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in Nove... Read More
The Monopoly-Go-Round Oct. 19, 2022
A July appeal on the front page of my local newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman, shamelessly sc... Read More
Our Free Press Is on Fire, and No One Can Spare the Water Oct. 14, 2022
Gannett, publisher of USA Today and more than 200 newspapers including the one I work for, just anno... Read More
What the Media Could Learn From Oriana Fallaci Sep. 23, 2022
A few weeks after Iran's "president," Ebrahim Raisi, promised stricter enforcement of his nation's m... Read More
Wanted: Continuity Editors Sep. 16, 2022
The world needs more continuity editors. Filmmakers hire them to check for plot holes. Like, in "For... Read More
Is Journalism Dead? Sep. 01, 2022
Imagine a world devoid of journalism. Would our lives be better without it? Historically, the respon... Read More
The Media Secretly Hated Biden All This Time? Jul. 20, 2022
Did you ever read a column and think, "You must be joking"? That was my reaction to Washington Post ... Read More
