Category: News media bias

  • Many Wisconsin newspapers homogenized, journalism suffers

    The [pictured] newspapers [shown in this blog] are owned by either USA Today Network or Gannett. That combination owns more than 100 newspaper and digital properties across the United States. If you think the front pages of the newspapers are repetitive you can be assured the same is true for their digital side, too. Many…

  • Speaking of snow flakes …

    No micro-aggression too trivial! We forget name of the philosopher who updated the biblical injunction: “Wherever two or three feminists gather, there shall be a TV crew in their midst.” Cry Racism and get the same 15 minutes of sacred victimhood. The venerable Toni Galli reports at WKOW-TV27 the latest evidence of Jim Crow Madison: “A…

  • Does CNN have a dog in this fight?

    Quess who CNN is rooting for in the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearing, based on this story synopsis from CNN on-line 03-24-22: SCOTUS confirmation hearing LIVE UPDATES Chairman was ‘saddened’ by unfair attacks by some GOP senators during Jackson’s hearing Jackson pushed back sharply on antagonism from GOP Sen. Hawley and other takeaways from Day 3…

  • Republicans don’t care about kids?

    Who’s striving for political gain? True confessions: Your Head Groundskeeper has a Seinfeld-like bromance going with former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz, however unrequited. Time for our first spat. The man has been making an awful lot of sense for a former Dane County Democrat(ic) office holder. By his telling, Dave C. is suffering the slings…

  • Newspaper demonizes parents running for school board

    They might be Republicans! News bias alert: if someone is “railing against” something, it’s a conservative opposing the progressive agenda. Democrats criticize, Republicans rail. A Sunday “news story” uses the term to pillory parents concerned about the direction of their schools. Finally, conservative parents are engaged as they are enraged! They’re running for school board! Maybe not in…

  • Headlines we don’t need to read

    Must’ve been a slow news day! We conjured a fair number of newspaper headlines back in our days as an ink-stained wretch. Needed to be epigrammatic to fit in the allowed space but compelling to attract readers. Action verbs, Anglo-Saxon words over multi-syllabic latinates. Alliteration for bonus points. Never attempted the bravado of the radio…