The SDGOP spin blog really overworked itself trying to portray local reporting on the advantage Republicans derive from gerrymandering as “fake news.” Three consecutive posts…
Tag: journalism
Four years ago when BPI filed suit against ABC for calling its processed bovine leavings the accurately descriptive term “pink slime,” the big food corporations could get area governors to shove their…
When I first heard the news about Montana’s Republican candidate for U.S. House, Greg Gianforte, assaulting U.K. Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in his campaign office, I…
Attorney General Marty Jackley is forcing journalist Dana Ferguson to testify in his prosecution of marijuana entrepreneur Eric Hagen, who goes to trial in Flandreau on…
After three days of failing to offer any consistent explanation for firing FBI director James Comey, Donald Trump has figured out how to get his story together—offer…
At the beginning of last week, Bob Mercer’s doctors at the Mayo Clinic gave him a good bill of health. On Friday, the South Dakota…
Last year Donald Trump snidely suggested that “Second Amendment people” should take Hillary Clinton out. Now that Trump has assured the racist NRA that the imagined…
South Dakota’s senior state government reporter, Bob Mercer, came to Aberdeen Friday to receive the South Dakota Newspaper Association’s Distinguished Service Award. Mercer took time after…
In an undercard to the South Dakota Legislature’s sex scandal, KSFY took a stand for journalists’ First Amendment rights against the state. KSFY recorded an interview with a former intern…
Two weeks into the 2017 Session, my State Senator, Senator Al Novstrup, finally provides District 3 with his first update from Pierre. But wait: Novstrup’s letter isn’t really an…