Print Column: Please, Conservatives, Don’t Abandon Local Media
MINOT, N.D. — I wrote a column recently about local journalists getting blowback for the bias of the national news media. I...
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Print Column: National News Outlets Squander the Public’s Trust and Local Journalists Suffer for It
MINOT, N.D. — This year the Columbia Journalism Review released the results of a national survey finding “the press” was the least...
When Actual Racism Doesn’t Happen I Guess We Have to Invent It
Disney has been doing this thing where they re-make their old animated movies with real actors and live action. The...
You Can’t Be a Journalist and an Elected Official
On the podcast today state Rep. Matt Eidson told me he's going to do his best to do a good...
Plain Talk: Can You Be an Elected Official and a Reporter at the Same Time?
On this episode of Plain Talk, state Rep. Matt Eidson (D-Grand Forks) talks about how he plans to manage being...
The National News Media Isn’t Even Particularly Good at Being Biased
The national news media has a pronounced leftward lean in their ideology. This is no big secret. Honest members of...
Print Column: The Problem With Journalism and Politics Is Us
MINOT, N.D. -- Between the BuzzFeed catastrophe and the Covington Catholic High School mess, I’ve been thinking a lot about journalism these past...
Alternatively, More Conservatives Should Join the News Media
Yesterday, in response to consternation among media types over the demise of conservative news and opinion magazine The Weekly Standard, I...
The News Media Should Hire More Conservatives
There is a lot of consternation of late about the demise of The Weekly Standard, a right-of-center publication founded by...
Twitter Isn’t Harming Journalism, Journalists on Twitter Are
John Ziegler, writing at Mediate, has an interesting piece today headlined "The Top Ten Ways That Twitter Has Greatly Harmed...
