Category: Media
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Times, Post Mangle the Heaphy Story
by James A. Bacon Here is what happens when The New York Times imposes its national narrative upon a Virginia story: we are afflicted with articles with headlines like this: “Top Jan. 6 Investigator Fired From Post at the University of Virginia.” “Democrats in Virginia,” says the sub-head, denounced the action as “a partisan move…
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Fact Checked by Facebook
by James A. Bacon On Sunday I published a meme from The Bull Elephant blog that used two photos to contrast the environmental footprint of the Keystone Pipeline with that of a lithium mine for hybrid cars. The point, as any thinking person would immediately grasp, was to highlight the inconsistency of those who decried…
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Indoctrination Nation
INDOCTRINATION NATION: Inside the parent-led rebellion against the left's war on our kids. What REALLY happened in Virginia? Was it "white supremacy," or was it a diverse, parent-led backlash? Daily Caller's first in-depth investigation. Watch: https://t.co/QtRFS98YQW pic.twitter.com/Lk4AY9wpgg — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 3, 2022 The Daily Caller is a conservative, Washington, D.C.-based media organization with…
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Bear With Us. It’s a Slow News Day.
by Kerry Dougherty Just what we need right now. As the national and local news turned once again to COVID, COVID and more COVID, a mama black bear and her three cubs provided Tidewater with a brief but delicious distraction. The furry family was first discovered on Monday, napping high in a tree in the…
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Our Media Trusts “The Smart Ones”
by Steve Haner Not every policy imposed by government is subject to public hearings or votes. That’s one reason to vote for smart candidates who have the country’s best interests at heart and not for those who rant about personal liberty without accepting any social responsibility for individual decisions. That was part of a response…
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A Reprieve or Just a Bargaining Move?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore As was reported here earlier, Alden Golden Capital has made a move to buy Lee Enterprises, the owner of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and nine other newspapers in this state. Such a move would be a disaster for the residents of the communities served by those papers. Alden has a reputation for buying…
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Another Media Merger in the Works
Virginia’s commercial news media continues its consolidation and self-cannibalization. Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that owns the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, has proposed purchasing Lee Enterprises, the chain that owns the Richmond-Times Dispatch, Roanoke Times, and newspapers in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Danville, Martinsville, Waynesboro, and Bristol. If the offer is accepted, almost the entire news-collecting…
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Deciphering the Latest Events at VMI
by James A. Bacon In my past couple of posts about the Virginia Military Institute, I observed that VMI Superintendent Cedric T. Wins and the Board of Visitors have caved into the demands of the Northam administration for transforming the racial climate of the military academy — not just by updating traditions and iconography relating…
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The Intellectual Laziness of the Mainstream Media
by Kerry Dougherty How much longer will the mainstream media get away with pretending that it’s conservatives who are racist and never liberals? Perhaps you noticed. As they tried to explain away the breathtaking Republican sweep of Virginia in last week’s elections, pundits and journalists alike couldn’t stop yapping about dog whistles and white supremacy.…
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How the WaPo’s Epic Fail on Schools Helped Elect Youngkin
by James A. Bacon The national news media are full of commentary today analyzing the implications of the Republican sweep of statewide offices in Virginia. Almost all focus on Glenn Youngkin’s deft exploitation of the culture wars playing out in the state’s public schools, especially in Northern Virginia. Youngkin does indeed deserve credit for harnessing…
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Leftist Media Does Battlefield Prep for White Supremacist Trial
by James A. Bacon Left-wing media from the New York Times to National Public Radio are as excited as can be about a civil trial starting today in Charlottesville that targets organizers of the infamous Unite the Right rally in 2017. As the Times puts it, lawyers for the nine plaintiffs “are hoping that their…
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Delta Variant On the Downhill Slide in Virginia
by James A. Bacon It appears that Virginia has turned the corner on the Delta variant. According to the weekly update from the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute Friday, the Institute’s COVID-19 model indicates that “cases have peaked and are in gradual decline.” I don’t know about you, but that strikes me as good news…
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The Impermeable Thought Bubble that Is the Washington Post
by James A. Bacon Here’s the Washington Post’s take on the Critical Race Theory furor in Northern Virginia: Nothing to see here, move along now. The controversy over implementation of social-justice ideology in Virginia public schools has gotten so intense that there is simply no ignoring it, as the WaPo did for months. WaPo may…
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Cardinal News Takes Flight
A new digital publication serving Southwest and Southside Virginia, Cardinal News, has launched today under the editorial direction of Dwayne Yancey, recently retired as editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times. The inaugural edition opens with articles and editorials on Grayson County Wi-Fi, how redistricting affects western Virginia, and headlines from around the region. In explaining its…
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A Closer Look at Those “Driving While Black” Statistics
by James A. Bacon When the Commonwealth published its Virginia Community Policing Act traffic-stop database last week, the Richmond Times-Dispatch spun the data this way: Black drivers are disproportionately stopped and arrested, and they have their cars searched at higher rates than any other race statewide. Here’s what the RTD could have written: Black drivers stopped for…