Category Archives: Media

Rich Lowry explores for National Review Online readers the mainstream media’s reaction to the latest scandals involving the Obama administration. Rarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference. After news broke of a sweeping Justice Department subpoena of the Associated Press telephoneContinue Reading

Diane Ravitch disapproves of Governor McCrory’s new education advisor, Eric Guckian.  (The left uses the word “unenthusiastic” to describe her take on Guckian.)  Apparently, Ravitch can discern the quality of an appointee using the information contained in a single press release.

Grady Jefferys played a role in the growth of television news in Raleigh and in dozens of important political campaigns in the second half of the 20th century. Jefferys recounts roughly 300 pages worth of stories and anecdotes from that work in the new book I Never Promised Not to Tell. He discussed key themesContinue Reading

In discussing Zev Chafets’ new biography of Fox News honcho Roger Ailes, Commentary magazine “Press Man” columnist Andrew Ferguson can’t help but poke fun at a mainstream media scribe. It was all too much for poor Michiko Kakutani, the daily book reviewer for the New York Times. Chafets likes Ailes, and Kakutani dislikes the book,Continue Reading

Thank you, editors of the News & Observer, for publishing a letter from Mr. Leon DeBaer, who is (or was) a seventh-grade science teacher at Zebulon GT Magnet Middle School.  Here is the letter in its entirety: Try a teacher’s pay I must have missed the part of the April 23 Point of View pieceContinue Reading

The editors of the News & Observer did it!  The N&O is now the journalistic equivalent of the Weekly World News.  Consider… – The N&O published an editorial titled, “The Bush library and the darker legacy,” on the same day that they ran another story, “Politics on hold at the dedication of Bush library.” -Continue Reading

State lawmakers are pursuing various forms of education reform. Terry Stoops analyzes their proposals during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Jon Ham dissects media bias in coverage of several recent national controversies, while John Hood discusses the long-term impact for Charlotte of North Carolina’s 19th-century gold rush. You’ll hear Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-NewContinue Reading