In Trump’s America, Lafayette County Tries to Interfere with Freedom of the Press!

Well after absolutely a ton of push back from all over the spectrum, Lafayette County pulled back a suggested ordinance that would prosecute journalists and the media if they didn’t publish county press releases about water pollution verbatim. And even though they’ve pulled back, they still want to claim what…

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American Journalism: Back To The Future

Not that long ago, when many towns and cities had competing daily newspapers, one would be conservative and the other liberal…and were often specifically GOP or Democratic leaning. I believe in those days, The Milwaukee Sentinel (the morning paper) was Republican in nature while The Milwaukee Journal (the evening paper)…

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Journalism In Milwaukee Takes Another Hit

Gannett Co, the owner of USA Today and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and 98 other papers) is being acquired by GateHouse Media (which if you trace the lineage is a division of Japanese company Softbank). This is being touted as a great way to preserve for profit print journalism in…

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When Will The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Drop Rick Esenberg’s Blog?

There’s been some conversation on Facebook about Christian Schneider’s op ed pieces in MJS. Liberal posters have accused him of being a hack and a direct mouthpiece of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. MJS editor Ernst-Ulrich Franzen stepped up to defend him as a paid columnist. All well and good…well…

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What’s Worse than Government Censorship?

The novice government becomes the master of censorship.  They refuse to let journalists publish articles on topics that are controversial, stir public unrest, or portray the government in a poor light.  They have no problem imprisoning writers that run afoul of reporting the approved narrative—even going so far as to…

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Really Bad Reporting, Leads to Really Really Bad Governing…

I mentioned recently that David Cay Johnston recently weighed in on the situation in Wisconsin where he pointed out: The average Wisconsin state employee gets $24,500 a year. That’s not a very big pension. The state pension plan, 15% of the money going into it each year is being paid…

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