Print Column: National News Outlets Squander the Public’s Trust and Local Journalists Suffer for It
MINOT, N.D. — This year the Columbia Journalism Review released the results of a national survey finding “the press” was the least...
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It’s Not That the Report Was Biased, It’s That It Was Stupid
Earlier this week I wrote a print column about one of those lists that rank the various states by some...
You Can’t Be a Journalist and an Elected Official
On the podcast today state Rep. Matt Eidson told me he's going to do his best to do a good...
Plain Talk: Can You Be an Elected Official and a Reporter at the Same Time?
On this episode of Plain Talk, state Rep. Matt Eidson (D-Grand Forks) talks about how he plans to manage being...
Print Column: The Quickest Way to Reduce DUI’s in North Dakota Would Be to Stop Enforcing the Law
MINOT, N.D. -- “North Dakota tops list in study for percentage of drivers with a DUI history.” That recent headline...
What a Miserable Week for American Journalism
American journalists are fond of blaming the politicians, and these days President Donald "fake news" Trump in particular, for declining...
Alternatively, More Conservatives Should Join the News Media
Yesterday, in response to consternation among media types over the demise of conservative news and opinion magazine The Weekly Standard, I...
We Should Pay More Attention to Local Journalists, and Less to National Media Outlets
Conservative columnist Eric Erickson makes an insightful point in this piece where he argues, using the Georgia gubernatorial race as...
Twitter Isn’t Harming Journalism, Journalists on Twitter Are
John Ziegler, writing at Mediate, has an interesting piece today headlined "The Top Ten Ways That Twitter Has Greatly Harmed...
Hiring Comedians to Insult Republicans Is Not How Journalists Will Regain the Trust of Americans
In January of this year Gallup released a poll showing 84 percent of Americans thinking the press is very important...
