Trust no one. There are a lot of dedicated journalists, but don’t assume the one in front of you has no bias. If a TV station, website or newspaper swears independence, it still quotes someone first, picks a lead story, and makes hundreds of small decisions that reflect an editor’s opinion. (See earlier story, […]
Read More →I research, select, write and publish news stories. A decade ago, I considered an article unbiased if the story received a roughly equal number of complaints from Republicans and Democrats. That must mean the story fell roughly in the middle, right? Many of those stories had something to do with a Congressional bill on […]
Read More →In the 1960s, Walter Cronkite delivered television news. To journalists, Walter was a god – an unbiased reporter who didn’t spin stories. Americans got facts and formed their own opinions. However, the U.S. only had three television stations in the 1960s. If a station’s stories teetered to the political left or right, they’d offend […]
Read More →A bit of advocacy about the rebel flag: Private citizens have the (wonderful) right to do whatever they wish, but the rebel flag should not be maintained by U.S., state or local governments. Here’s why: It’s not part of history. In the Civil War, the South had a series of three flags – and the […]
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