If newspapers were indeed honest and unbiased in their coverage – compare their treatment of Obama and Trump – they wouldn’t need to publish a slew of editorials proclaiming it.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Editorials defending the press are a nice start. Here’s where to go next
What if journalists could consistently get their act together in some form of meaningful collaboration?
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: From a bygone era to now, it’s the enemy of my people all over again
The defense of Americans’ intellectual rights is of equal value to the defense of their physical and property rights.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: The best defense against tyranny is a free and independent press
The public shouldn’t trust the powerful people who claim they have a monopoly on the truth and all conflicting versions are false.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: As white supremacist rally flops, note treatment of them by police, media
Police protected the racists all day in the Washington area. Compare that with Ferguson, Missouri, where guns were trained on black protesters.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Democrats’ rhetoric is just as dangerous as Trump’s
Journalists should do a better job of calling out Democrats who compare Republicans to our enemies.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Tribune Media withdraws from Sinclair merger, saying it will sue for ‘breach of contract’
The deal, which Sinclair had called ‘transformational,’ would have rippled across 70 percent of U.S. households.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Media are not the ‘enemy of the people,’ Ivanka Trump says
On Twitter the president commends her statement, adding that only ‘a large percentage’ of journalists are the enemy.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Commerce Department upholds tariffs on Canadian newsprint
The agency does reduce most of them from the initial levels, but the harm is already being done to U.S. newspapers.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Owner of Press Herald, 5 other Maine dailies to buy two Hancock County weeklies
Rockland businessman Reade Brower acquires the Ellsworth American and Mount Desert Islander from longtime owner Alan Baker.