News Media
I have to admit that I found Kenneth Singletary’s write-up for the Boston Globe about a Saturday Night Live skit involving Rhode Island to be more humorous than the skit itself: Singletary plays the straight man (that’s a comedy term, for the woke out there) with his straight-news report: Strong looks worried. The newscast continues.…
Something about the account that Eli Sherman describes for WPRI of North Kingstown Superintendent Philip Auger being informed in 2018 about the naked fat tests allegedly conducted by basketball coach Aaron Thomas is odd and made odder by an edit to the story. Here’s a paragraph from the story, about a student who contacted Auger…
Things are getting humorous (and obvious) out there. Over the past few days, we’ve all had a good laugh at the Democrat activists (one of them Black) who dressed up as white supremacists to try to tar Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin. More recently, I noticed local Democrats in Rhode Island gleefully fixating on the story…
John and Justin review various ways state and local government and officials raise doubts that the public they serve is their central focus.
Mike Stanton is a former Providence Journal reporter who now teaches journalism at the University of Connecticut. He’s also something of a case study in how Twitter has exposed the ideological nature and lack of objective intellectual rigor in journalism these days. This time, the evidence he provides for this proposition has to do with one…
This week a Providence public school teacher appeared on the highest-rated cable news show in the nation talking about the ideological revamping of her school’s curriculum and the retaliation she has faced for publicly objecting to it. Whether one thinks Ramona Bessinger is acting as an invaluable whistleblower (which is my view) or is part…
Living in the town, of course it caught my eye that Dan McGowan of the Boston Globe outed Tiverton as the only town in Rhode Island with a vaccination rate below 50%: Tiverton is now the only city or town in Rhode Island with a COVID-19 vaccination rate below 50 percent, according to data from the…
What an embarrassing puff piece from the Associated Press and run by WPRI. You know that old line about discomfiting the comfortable? How about skepticism about the powerful? Yeah, not so much. Instead, one can only wonder whether Raimondo’s people slipped the writer, Josh Boak, cash or promises or he’s just a cheap date who…
This article from Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long would be a great study in propaganda and how the news media constructs a narrative that’s true-ish for political ends. It wraps facts in the perspective of the writers. A U.S. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about the Rhode Island political topics of the week.