It may surprise you to know that at one time there were lines that journalists wouldn't cross, at least not if they wanted to be seen as professionals. These days that's getting increasingly hard to believe.
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 4:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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People in and out of the academic world have been pointing to a glaring defect in our education system for many years. That defect is the failure to teach students to write competently.
Published: Saturday, August 29th, 2015 @ 5:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Thank you for reading this column. It's not just that I appreciate your interest in what I have to say. I appreciate the fact that you are reading this publication at all. According to a recent set of surveys by the Pew Research Center, a distressing number of our fellow citizens rely mostly on...
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 12:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Accept responsibility when it comes, the editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine Mitzi Miller told a crowd at East Carolina University Tuesday night. Even though a task may seem overwhelming, she said, "You accept it; you move forward."
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I've been writing about media bias for 20-plus years, since that day in the early '90s when the scales fell from my eyes and I saw what was happening in my chosen profession. I was managing editor of The Herald-Sun in Durham, and I began seeing things I didn't like, not only in the national media, b
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That just wasn't done, and the reporter who allowed it had violated one of the strict codes of journalism. To allow a news source to see one's copy before your editor had seen it, and before it was published, made one's copy suspect.
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 8:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many have pointed to the lack of ethics in journalism these days. Many times I have bemoaned the fact that ethics has been replaced by bias, leftist agenda pushing, and the active hiding of any story that might be harmful to Democrats, the left, and the government.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Once upon a time, and not too long ago, the job of journalism was seen as reporting the truth "without fear or favor" and "letting the chips fall where they may."
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 9:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What makes news? Three conditions certainly help: scope, rarity, and tragedy.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC system President Tom Ross said on Monday that the administration would look at ways to effect more efficiencies, but added he didn't think closing any...
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My new book Our Best Foot Forward, which comes out on Monday, analyzes the biggest problems facing North Carolina's economy and offers a 10-point plan for addressing them.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 12:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is just that he was so drastically different - odd in most people's estimation - that one, I believe, would need to have lived just a piece of his unique existence to understand his genius.
Published: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 @ 9:59 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Okay, I get it. I need to do what you tell me to do, and be more amenable to your loyal readers, whom you control.
Published: Monday, January 31st, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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