“Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for any side. Period!” – Chris Cillizza, CNN Image Credit: Canva By William Haupt III [Tennessee Watchdog Journalist, Columnist, Author, and Citizen Legislator via The Center Square] – There was a time when gum shoe beat reporters patrolled the halls of smoke filled meeting rooms […]
Image Credit: Canva by Steve Abramowicz, Editor of The Mill Creek View and host of The Mill Creek View Tennessee Podcast – The decline of local news in the United States is speeding up despite attention paid to the issue, to the point where the nation has lost one-third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its […]
This will move you to tears. I’m sure of it. I immediately thought of those big bullets you see on movie posters: “It was so thrilling, it made my leg quiver!’ “The raw emotions were overpowering!” “YOU MUST SEE THIS! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I will never look at olive green the same.” “Burnett […]
Mad Vlad Putin continues to poke a finger in the eye of Joe Biden. A Russian court ruled today that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detention will be extended by two months. Make no mistake about it. This is a slap against Joe Biden and the perception of weakness that he projects to the […]
Last week the LA Times union held a one day walkout to protest coming cuts which would eliminate about 20% of the workforce. The paper had one executive editor and two managing editors resign within a week. The owner also got pushback from a group of California Democrats who expressed concern that the Times was […]
“Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule.” – Andrew Vachss Image Credit: Roger H. Goun / CC By William Haupt III [Tennessee Watchdog Journalist, Columnist, Author, and Citizen Legislator via The Center Square] – n 1802, Thomas Jefferson told us, “A press that is free to investigate and criticize the government […]
Walter Lippmann believed that natural Laws are the principles of right reason and behavior in the good society governed by the western traditions of civility. It is possible to organize a state and conduct a government on quite different principles, but the outcome will not be freedom and the good life. Thus the environment with […]
While Claudine Gay’s tenure as Harvard University’s president didn’t come to the immediate and spectacular conclusion it should have after her disastrous Congressional testimony – thanks purely to defensively circling the Ivy League wagons around their Diversity, Empowerment, and Inclusion icon and extreme umbrage at the nerve of conservatives – it did turn out to […]
I’m not generally someone who is interested in making New Year’s resolutions, aside from one dating back quite a few years ago to drink a lot more water and far less coffee. (I’ve stuck to that one religiously with no regrets.) But at the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell penned some resolutions for journalists for 2024 […]
A Fox News writer and audio anchor died Saturday in New York City. He was 33. Matt Napolitano passed away after what was described as a “brief illness.” “With a heavy heart I have to share that my husband [Matt Napolitano] passed away yesterday morning,” his partner Ricky Whitcomb wrote on the X social media […]
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