Mark Hemingway writes for Real Clear Politics about one interesting revelation from the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus crisis is a make-or-break moment for the American media. According to Wednesday’s Gallup poll on the coronavirus response, “Hospitals Rated Best, News Media Worst.” The survey shows that 44% of the…
Victor Davis Hanson of National Review Online asks questions linked to the coronavirus panic. There are a lot of known unknowns and paradoxes in these times of uncertainty. Here are a few. 1) Trump is criticized as both “racist” and “xenophobic” in his condemnations of the “Chinese” virus,…
The N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a death threat case against a Macon County man. He had been convicted in 2018 of using a Facebook post to threaten the local district attorney. In opinions taking up 123 pages, appellate judges explained why David Taylor’s social media comments…
Lindsay Marchello reports on Charter Communications’ offer of free internet access to N.C. public school students affected by school closings. The Daily Journal explains that concerns about coronavirus testing remind us about the importance of health care supply.
If not for Carolina Journal’s reporting, few people would have learned that the N.C. Department of Transportation had purchased a former circus train and parked its cars in a wooded area of Nash County. Rick Henderson discusses that story for the next Carolina Journal Radio. Henderson also…
Ziva Dahl writes for the American Spectator about a project designed to counter the New York Times‘ destructive 1619 Project. A group of predominantly black scholars, journalists, entrepreneurs, clergy, and community leaders, led by Robert Woodson Sr., a respected anti-poverty activist, have launched “1776 Unites” to counter the…
Carolina Journal Online reports on its seven new N.C. Press Association awards. Amy Cooke’s Daily Journal reflects on lessons learned during her first month in the Land of the Long Leaf Pine.
