EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s editorial originally ran June 28, 2020. What’s the difference between “news” and “opinion”? News is the facts of the situation. It’s the report on a car wreck […]
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Meta smear campaign co-opted local papers
The Washington Post was the first to report that Meta (Facebook’s parent company) had hired the right-wing consulting firm Targeted Victory to run a smear campaign against rival TikTok. Targeted […]
Boehlert dies as U.S. needs his message
by Will Bunch Early in the morning on April 4, Eric Boehlert — a veteran and unrelenting critic of the American news media — hit the button to publish the […]
March 6 letters to the editor
Newspaper critical of Trump but not Biden I read with interest the editorial “Russia wages war on more than Ukraine” (DP-02-26-22) and the obvious lies put forth by the Russians, […]
Local news hangs in the balance
by Steven Waldman The Senate is now deciding the fate of local news. As part of the Build Back Better Act, the Senate is in the next few days considering […]
Why we need a community forum
by Brian J. Allfrey I am not sure what I expected our country to look like in 2021, but I certainly did not expect it to be so fractured and […]
We have no idea what we’re talking — or reading — about
by Lucero Cantu While it is nonsensical to try to prescribe a diagnosis to America’s current state of civic discourse — from dumping manure on the White House lawn in […]
The local paper: Trusted source for community news
Oct. 3 to Oct. 9 marks National Newspaper Week. Of the many obscure awareness days, this one is near and dear to our hearts, for obvious reasons. Every day — […]
Young people need to start reading real newspapers
by Shreya Prabhu Sitting in my eighth-grade classroom, I stealthily check my email, hoping for news updates from The New York Times or CNN about the heightened COVID-19 crisis in […]
DeJoy plan will hurt small, already struggling papers
At the end of August, the next phase of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to overhaul (read: destroy) the U.S. Postal Service will take effect. In this phase, which was […]
