HB2: Pat travels. Roy fiddles. Binky piddles
Here’s a great primer on how drive-by “news” coverage in our fair capital city works. First, you get a press release / tweet from a liberal pol / organization, like
Continue readingHere’s a great primer on how drive-by “news” coverage in our fair capital city works. First, you get a press release / tweet from a liberal pol / organization, like
Continue readingYep, that’s right. Jim Hefner used to call the shots at WRAL. Now he teaches ”the practice of journalism” at UNC. Here he is in the money-bleeding, gasping-for-its-final-breaths Charlotte Observer:
Continue readingOur all-gay-stuff-all-the-time driveby media has worked hard to make its dwindling audience believe that drag queens in the ladies room is the most important civil rights moment since Rosa Parks
Continue readingTalk about being out of touch with your audience. The average person — residing outside of Orange County — is not devoting 1/10000th of the energy to HB2 that the
Continue readingThe drive-bys cannot cannot cannot stop talking about the potty. The N&O’s website was overrun with copy about the passage of HB2 and all of the Hollywood actors and Broadway
Continue readingIf we’re going to hold every performer / politician / public figure / writer / speaker / etc. responsible for the actions of their supporters, let’s at least be evenhanded
Continue readingSome of you may have heard about this Jones+Blount web site. It’s backed financially by some big Pat McCrory donors and staffed by some former McCrory aides. It’s literally
Continue readingThe practitioners of my former occupation never cease to amaze (or appall) me. They regularly take the sacred rights and privileges granted to them in The First Amendment and poop
Continue readingSix people sat down on a Raleigh street — connected by PVC pipe (for some reason) a little while back to protest the actual enforcement of immigration laws by the
Continue readingThank goodness McClatchy continues to prop up that geriatric relic RobRielleWho Christensen. If they didn’t, where else would we find such a glaring, prominent example of lazy reporting, and contempt
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