Category: Media
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Corporate Media Is Hostile to You and Your Religious Beliefs
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are you were too busy last weekend, or too smart, to bother with The New York Times. But had you glanced at it, as I did, you would have seen this piece, promoted on the front page: “In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God.” The editors of…
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A Complete Disconnect from Reality
by James A. Bacon A group of Black leaders has launched an initiative to preserve the teaching of Black history against what it calls a “whitewashing” by Governor Glenn Youngkin. Black History Is American History, a collaboration of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the NAACP, and People for the American Way, has formed in response…
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Moran’s Green Energy Ties Ignored by Media
by Steve Haner If the Commonwealth of Virginia was not paying Matthew Moran to serve as Governor Glenn Youngkin’s deputy chief of staff and point person with the General Assembly, as recently revealed, who was? Based on the websites for his employers, mainly the renewable energy industry. For example, Moran is identified as on the…
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Bad Journalism and Echo-Chamber References Lead to Libel at UVa
by James C. Sherlock Mike Pence, agree with him or not on any issue, is a good man. He has traditional values that have formed the basis of his political and personal lives. He is also a gentleman, unfailingly courteous. Traditional values, traditional courtesy. Disconcerting, even threatening to some.
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Dig, WaPo, Dig! You’re Halfway to China!
by James A. Bacon It’s fascinating to watch The Washington Post try to dig itself out of the pit it created for itself with its coverage of a Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS) letter that was critical of the Youngkin administration. The WaPo news team appears to have forgotten the First Law of Holes:…
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Know the Terms of Surrender in Negotiating With Teachers Unions
by James C. Sherlock Franklin Roosevelt thought collective bargaining agreements incompatible with public sector work. Today’s left, unburdened by the public interest, finds FDR’s principles at best quaint. Since May of last year collective bargaining is legal in Virginia for local government employees by local option, but for not state employees. The issues most people think…
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The VASS Letter: Another MSM Lie Exposed
by James A. Bacon When The Washington Post published an article four days ago claiming that “all 133 Virginia public school division superintendents” had called upon Governor Glenn Youngkin to end his campaign against “divisive” concepts in schools, only two media outlets in Virginia questioned the veracity of the statement. One was Kerry Dougherty’s blog,…
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Lazy Mainstream Media Lied to Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are you saw them. Friday’s headlines screaming that “133 Virginia School Superintendents” were protesting Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s reforms to public education, which had been a cornerstone of his campaign. Every dang school chief in the commonwealth opposes him, they claimed. Here’s the first paragraph from The Washington Post: RICHMOND — All…
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What? The General Assembly Is Still Meeting?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Jeff Shapiro has a nice column in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch praising the work of the Bob Brown, the long-time news photographer who is retiring, after 42 years at the RTD, at the end of this month. His photographs have captured many moments in the legislature over the years and he is a…
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The Post “Reports” On Something That Has No Chance of Happening
by James C. Sherlock Governor Youngkin gets to fill three existing vacancies on the Board of Education (BOE) and replace two more members whose terms expire on June 30 of this year. That makes five of a total of nine. Virginians have been watching the headline making depredations of the Democratic appointees on that board…
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Headline – The Richmond Times-Dispatch Needs Help
by James C. Sherlock Finally some good news about the dumpster fire that has been the Virginia Unemployment Commission (VEC). Governor Glenn Youngkin has reported definitive progress — real numbers in reductions of backlogs. Here is the full Richmond Times Dispatch (RTD) headline on the story reporting those improvements. Youngkin claims progress in reducing backlog…
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What Was More “Political”: Heaphy’s Firing or His Hiring?
by James A. Bacon The Richmond Times-Dispatch ramped up the mainstream media’s criticism of Attorney General Jason Miyares in a story published over the weekend. The headline: “Jason Miyares removed the head lawyer at 3 state colleges. Professors and Democrats say he’s wielding excessive influence.” The initial wave of Miyares-critical stories, most prominently in The…
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Virginia Papers Attack the Youngkin Administration on “News” Pages
by James C. Sherlock Read Saturday’s VaNews January 29, 2022, from the Virginia Public Access Project. It will provide you everything you need to assess how The Washington Post, Richmond Times Dispatch and Virginian-Pilot will cover the Youngkin administration. In their news sections.
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Richmond Fentanyl Deaths Reported by RTD. Next: Efforts to Arrest and Prosecute Local Dealers?
by James C. Sherlock Sometimes reporters commit errors of omission. Especially when a pet cause is threatened by the facts. Left-leaning newspapers, which include the large majority of such outlets, tend to write that an “SUV” ran down a crowd at a Christmas parade or that an “illegal gun” shot a cop. That removes personal…
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The Resistance Is Cohering. And the Media is Part of It.
NEW: Virginia’s new attorney general emphatically denies that he fired a @UVA lawyer because that lawyer is also helping investigate on the January 6 select committee. I pressed @JasonMiyaresVA on this after a spox told this to @washingtonpost. Here’s the AG’s response. @8NEWS pic.twitter.com/7Jf1hJ5w8y — Ben Dennis DC News Now (@broadcastben_) January 24, 2022 by…