Outside the Beltway

The trailblazing television interviewer is gone at 93.

Michael Barone on out-migration from some Blue states.

“You can’t be against everything.”

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

Headline News Network is shuttering after four decades.

James LaPorta is being scapegoated for poor editorial process.

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

Journalists openly root for a good story.

Publishers and consumers want very different business models.

A new book raises fundamental questions about how far journalistic objectivity should extend.

Reading habits continue to evolve, not necessarily for the better.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

What does objectivity mean in the Trump era?

Shockingly, when the most-watched news outlet is built on divisiveness, the country becomes divided.

The intersection of politics, morality, and meaning.

The nature of American political reporting distorts our perception of reality.

Paywalls are not our problem.

Apparently, whoever has the most Twitter followers.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

Another journalist has been fired for a cardinal sin.

What are the limits of representation?

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

The veteran journalist and Fox News original is gone at 75.

People, details do in fact matter!

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

Misc. stories for your enjoyment.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

America’s weatherman is gone. Sadly, he did not make it to 100.

Not everyone is losing money.

A new story archetype is all too common.

The legendary country music singer-songwriter known as “The Storyteller” is gone at 85.

When “the news” isn’t just “the news.”

A legendary journalist is gone.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

We’re hurting the feelings of those trying to destroy the country.

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

UNC’s loss is the nation’s most prestigious HBCU’s gain.

A truly bizarre controversy at Chapel Hill.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The budding journalist interviewed President Obama as an 11-year-old.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.