I used to have the naive idea that journalists based their editorial decisions on independent standards that obtained no matter who was involved in a news story.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is beyond argument that the left long ago decided that abortion on demand was a key part of the liberal catechism. It's become the metric by which they measure all politicians.
Published: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 @ 1:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's not unusual for the media to be unintentionally insensitive. Sometimes in the rush of a deadline we write a headline or put something in a story that has effects we never predicted or anticipated.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 3:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's nothing more revealing about a news medium than the way it deals with its own errors. Is it, to use human terms, honest, forthright, and sincerely sorry, or is it evasive, sneaky, and dishonest?
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been writing about media bias for 20-plus years, since that day in the early '90s when the scales fell from my eyes and I saw what was happening in my chosen profession. I was managing editor of The Herald-Sun in Durham, and I began seeing things I didn't like, not only in the national media, b
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many have made the observation that the greatest power the media has is its power to decide not to report something.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newspapers never have been hesitant to shame a public official into appropriate behavior. It's a time-honored tradition. Have you ever noticed things like "Sen. Blowhard did not return a phone call," or "Rep. Self-Dealer did not answer an email" in news stories? Those are there not just to let...
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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You'd have thought by now that the news media would have learned the hard lessons of prejudging a story or a situation before all the facts are in.
Published: Thursday, September 25th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like a lifetime ago, but remember the euphoria when Baghdad fell in early 2003?
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There was a time when the news media cast a skeptical eye at any press release that came over the transom.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many have pointed to the lack of ethics in journalism these days. Many times I have bemoaned the fact that ethics has been replaced by bias, leftist agenda pushing, and the active hiding of any story that might be harmful to Democrats, the left, and the government.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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