Regular visitors here know that I have never been able to offer the Dallas Morning News as a model of journalism. It is a biased, left-wing, propaganda rag that routinely runs pathetic sob stories of the 28-year-old single mother of five, all of whom have different last names who can't make ends meet on her welfare checks and drug rehabilitation course tuition on the front page. Real news seems to escape their focus.
I read it because I teach a course in state/local government at the local one-horse college and storm-door repair academy. It is my only reasonable source on what is happening in the DFW metro governments and the state legislature in Austin.
But, if you want to experience an intense bit of the DMN flavor, gag your way through this piece:
The Most EeeeeVviLLLLLlll Creation of Man
Can you see where that piece is going? Would this twit get a C in Journalism 101 at a real school?
3 comments:
The irony is that, way back, in the century past, the DMN was Dallas' conservative voice, and the liberal view was articulated by the Dallas Times-Herald.
The DTH folded (well, so did the DMN, but the DTH closed its doors). Some of the writers migrated to the Morning News, which over time lost its editorial way.
Living west of 360, I read the FWST, but it too has its share of nitwits, such as the longtime columnist who last year declared Montague County full of racists because a local ad rag repeated a decades-old joke. Of course, the guy goes looking for Klansmen behind every TxDOT traffic cone.
(Funny how, try as you might, you miss details in the comment box, only to find them once they've posted - hence the revision.)
Couldn't see enough of the artical to judge his journalistic skills, but even I could tell he didn't know squat about shooting...
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