From an article in American Journalism Review: This winter, AJR conducted its fifth census of newspaper reporters who cover state government, its first since 2003, and found a staggering loss of reporting firepower at America's state capitols. The tally found only 355 full-time newspaper reporters at the nation's state capitols, a 32 percent decrease from [...]
Fundamentals
Is North Carolina's budget shortfall a result of too few revenues or too much spending? If you read the N&O, you'd think it's a problem of not raising enough tax money. Look at this lede sentence an article in today's paper: Looking at the ledger, the state has a simple problem: There's not enough money [...]
Al Gore is Losing
As much of North Carolina sits under a Winter Storm Watch for the threat of snow tomorrow, a new poll released today by Rasmussen Reports shows more and more Americans think global warming is caused more by long term planetary trends than by human activity. According to its poll, 44% think it's planetary causes while [...]
Just Askin’
With all the commentary on the significance of electing an African-American as President, why hasn't (to my knowledge) any NC media outlet picked up on the story of NC electing its first female African-American Republican to the NC House? Or better yet, I read multiple accounts from media about how "homogeneous" crowds were at McCain [...]
Nah, No Media Slant Here
Former N&O reporter, editor and columnist G.D. Gearino uncovers on his blog an inter-office memo from the N&O’s editorial staff celebrating the finer points of the day’s paper (the one published is from last Wednesday). An excerpt below. Click through to read Gearino’s post and the entire memo here. Has the political right truly turned [...]
