Pat Powers runs as news a poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, a firm whose job is not to measure but influence public opinion and win…
Tag: journalism
That Sioux Falls paper has finally gotten around to running a version of my July 1 response to Rep. Leslie Heinemann’s myth-making on Medicaid expansion. The…
Correction: while the Board of Regents spent what seems like an inordinate amount of money ($156,000) to make an in-house hire for SDSU’s next president, they did not spend some…
We bloggers get our occasional mentions and calls from the press for commentary. But how many blogs do you see cited for straight-up reporting? KSOO…
State Rep. Paula Hawks (D-9/Hartford) announces that she has scaled back her campaign for U.S. House during the last several weeks because of a family health issue.…
I wholeheartedly second Scott Ehrisman’s observations about Joe Sneve’s glaring omission of quotes from Sioux Falls civic watchdog Bruce Danielson in Sneve’s column about Bruce Danielson: “What’s missing from this…
My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
Just when I’m thinking Angela Kennecke is our best new investigative reporter, she tosses this mostly useless clickbait onto KELO-TV: I should perhaps shield Kennecke from blame.…
KSOO’s Beth Warden joins the watchdog journalists doing the public a great service by going out and talking to petition circulators on camera. Does this guy pass…