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  • Journal-World misses major local story

    One advantage a local newspaper has over national newspapers is, well, its focus on local news. Unfortunately, the Lawrence Journal-World has apparently decided not to exercise that advantage.

    In April the Lawrence school district decided not to renew Tim Latham’s contract with the district. According to Latham, a history [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 9:40am EDT

  • "You're a liar" comment in context

    Is Carl Leubsdorf a liar? You be the judge. Here are the unedited e-mails we exchanged:

    You're a liar. The GOP overwhelmingly supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Without Dirksen's leadership, LBJ never would have had a bill to sign. It was a blatant lie to write that the [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 12:37pm EST

  • Leubsdorf lies again

    In my November 29 item, I noted that Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Daily News claimed that prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, "Republicans were using opposition to civil rights to woo the South from its century-long Democratic home." I responded that, contrary to Leubsdorf's claim, it was the' [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 8:48am EST

  • Carl Leubsdorf rewrites civil rights history

    In today's Lawrence Journal-World, Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Daily News claims that prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, "Republicans were using opposition to civil rights to woo the South from its century-long Democratic home." In doing so, Leubsdorf suggests that it was the Democrat Party that helped' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2008, 2:07pm EST

  • World Company creates "void" in Eudora

    During the 1990s, I worked for TeleGraphics, Inc., which published the Baldwin Ledger and the Lawrence Business Ledger. In 1995, we moved the main office for the company from Baldwin City, Kan., to Lawrence. However, we maintained an office in Baldwin City for the Baldwin Ledger.

    During the latter [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 12:11pm EST

  • No Room for Ronnie?

    Next Thursday is the fourth anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's death. I recently discovered that the Newseum web site includes an archive containing the front pages of many daily newspapers. The site's archive list includes historical dates during the past few years. One of those dates was Reagan's death on' [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2008, 3:16pm EDT

  • The Capital-Journal pulls a "Journal-World"

    As noted earlier on this blog, the Lawrence Journal-World has no problem with publishing letters to the editor from liberals who make claims that cannot be substantiated. Now the Topeka Capital-Journal has pulled a Journal-World.

    In its April 25 issue, the Capital-Journal published a letter from Warren Allen [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2008, 8:43am EDT

  • Dishonest letters to the editors find forum at Journal-World

    Back when the Journal-World used to publish my letters to the editor (Ralph Gage threw a hissy fit over my scrutiny of his newspaper's reporting, so the J-W no longer accepts my letters), I was often asked to provide sources. However, during the last few months I have noticed letters' [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2008, 6:45pm EDT

  • Lying Lenny

    In the January 24 issue of the Lawrence Journal-World, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes the following: "It is, however, true that blacks tended to vote Republican for much of the last century, the simple reason being that the GOP was 'the party of Lincoln.' But as Lincoln receded in history," [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2008, 4:55pm EST

  • Never Heard of Code Pink?

    Been writing a book the last few months, so I haven't had time to post.

    There were many items that could have been posted here since September, but I didn't make note of them. However, one did stay in my memory.

    Last September, Journal-World Editorial Page Editor Ann [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 4:13pm EST

  • "New Yorker" misrepresents New Yorkers

    Less than a week after the sixth anniverary of 9/11, the Lawrence Journal-World allowed Elizabeth Black to express her views on the six years that have passed since that tragic day.

    Black's piece, entitled "Many hearts still bear painful memories of 9/11," started out with her experience as' [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2007, 7:25pm EDT

  • Rose peddled Reagan lie before

    As noted in the previous item, Steve Rose, chairman of Sun Publiucations, micharacterized Ronald Reagan's record as a social conservative in a August 8 column.

    Rose has done this before, this time in a February 22, 2007 column.

    "[KRA leaders] claim they are 'Reagan Republicans,' who, in'" [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2007, 5:02pm EDT

  • The editorial is bogus

    In his August 8, 2007, column entitled "The enemy is us," Steve Rose, chairman of Sun Publications, attacks the Kansas Republican Assembly, the Kansas GOP, and the formation of the latter's loyalty committee.

    According to Rose, "Under the just amended Republican Party constitution, there will now be'" [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2007, 12:16pm EDT

  • Scott Rothschild: A Reporter in Conflict?

    “Journalists cannot drop professional affiliation when it is convenient for them or for their cause. People who wish to work on behalf of a particular cause should work in public relations or advocacy groups, not for the news media. Journalists should confine their public voices to their own professional arena.” [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2007, 11:19am EDT

  • Progress at the Lawrence Journal-World?

    In a the second of two editorials in today's Journal-World, Rep. Dennis Moore is actually characterized as a "moderate or liberal." This is much more accurate than past articles that labelled Moore a "conservative."

    There was a slight problem, though. According to editorial, "If there was any overriding'" [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2007, 5:08pm EST

  • Donald Betts is more than one lawmaker?

    Liberal activist/Lawrence Journal-World reporter Scott Rothschild has a story in the January 27, 2007 issue of the J-W with this headline:

    "Lawmakers disagree with troop increase"

    The story is about Donald Betts, an ultraliberal state senator from Wichita, filing a resolution that would "put Kansas lawmakers on" [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2007, 1:08pm EST

  • Do As I Say, Not As I Do

    The Lawrence Journal-World on January 1 published an AP article with the headline "Going Green." The article was primarily about environmentalist Laurie David telling us how to save the world by, among other things, using compact fluorescent bulbs and pulling the plug on electronics and chargers.

    David, the [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2007, 4:41pm EST

  • Miracle of demagoguery

    In a December 10 editorial entitled "Miracle of democracy," the Lawrence Journal-World praises actor Richard Dreyfuss, who, in a "recent appearance on HBO’s 'Real Time with Bill Maher'" (he actually appeared on the program on November 17, suggesting the author didn't actually watch the program), "decried what he'" [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2006, 1:41pm EST

  • Oldie: Conservatives slam door on moderate

    While preparing my post on the Lawrence Journal-World's latest editorial on the Republican Rift, I was reminded of 1998 editorial that failed to report the facts accurately and thoroughly.

    After the elections for the Douglas County GOP leadership that year, a Journal-World editorial reported the following:
    [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2006, 12:53pm EST

  • Journal-World's nonsensical spin on GOP rift

    The Lawrence Journal-World's December 5 editorial had so many nonsensical comments in it that I have added extended commentary in red.

    Republican rift
    It’s unfortunate Republicans in the Kansas House passed over
    Rep. Kenny Wilk for the speaker’s job.

    "Monday’s leadership elections in the Kansas House seem'" [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2006, 4:59pm EST

  • Blue Dog Boyda?

    In his November 24 column in the Topeka Metro News, Peter Hancock writes that "Kansas Rep.-elect Nancy Boyda hopes to join fellow Kansan Dennis Moore in the centrist-conservative caucus known as the 'Blue Dog Democrats.'"

    "Boyda says there's an interview process that goes along with it," Hancock writes. "If'" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2006, 5:35pm EST

  • Oh brother, Broder!

    In today's Lawrence Journal-World, liberal columnist David Broder discusses Sen. Mitch McConnell and his new position as leader of the GOP senators:

    "Ask Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to name his role models for his new responsibilities as the leader of Senate Republicans, and the answer is surprising. 'Mike" [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2006, 8:45am EST

  • The phantom "overtly racist" Kline commercial

    Kansas Media Watch does not usually scrutinize college newspapers. The writers are young, inexperienced, and, therefore, prone to making mistakes. For example, Frank Tankard, writing for the University Daily Kansan editorial board on November 6, endorsed Rep. Dennis Moore for re-election. Tankard's praise for Moore, however, was not unqualified:[...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2006, 12:47pm EST

  • Journal-World publishes dishonest LTE

    In today's Journal-World, letter writer Karl Brooks writes, "The weekend before Election Day, right here in Kansas, [President Bush] denounced Democrats as unpatriotic and misguided for simply asking him to share the facts about Iraq!"

    This is a false statement. I was at the event in Topeka and' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2006, 11:08am EST

  • Rothschild's castrated sheep

    In a November 19 article with the headline "Kansas Democrats’ victory seen as ‘bellwether’ for party," Lawrence Journal-World reporter Scott Rothschild wrote the following:

    "Historically, Democrats have been the long-suffering minority party in Kansas. Of the state’s 1.66 million voters, 47 percent are registered as Republicans, 27 percent unaffiliated" [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2006, 8:35am EST

  • Leonard's fact-free zone

    Earlier this month I wrote that the Lawrence Journal-World's syndicated columnists are overwhelmingly liberals, and that those liberal columnists tend to be dishonest. Leonard Pitts provided more evidence of that with his latest column in which he takes on Michael Richards, Seinfeld's "Kramer." In his column, Pitts wrote that [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2006, 8:24pm EST

  • No full disclosure for columnist

    In a Lawrence Journal-World opinion piece replete with personal attacks, Georgetown University professor Rosa Brooks attacks the GOP for abandoning its humility so soon after the November 7 election.

    The Journal-World failed to note, however, that Brooks worked in the State Department in the Clinton administration. She [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2006, 9:47am EST

  • Columnist fails to note activist's support for Democrats

    In her November 19 column, the Kansas City Star's Rhonda Chriss Lokeman quoted Paul Rieckhoff's criticism of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rieckhoff is the founder and executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

    Lokeman failed to mention that Rieckhoff served as an adviser [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2006, 10:14am EST

  • Journal-World continues to peddle moderate myth

    In an earlier item, I noted that Rep. Dennis Moore (R-KS) was just as liberal as the average Democrat House member. This was in response to J-W reporter Scott Rothschild writing that Moore “is viewed as a moderate to conservative Democrat.”

    Rothschild returned on November 18 with another [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2006, 5:14pm EST

  • No liberals in the House

    In a November 17 story about the Democrat leadership elections, a Lawrence Journal-World headline notes that Rep. Steny Hoyer, the newly elected majority leader, is a "moderate."

    In a Kansas City Star article on the same day, Margaret Talev also reported that Hoyer is a "moderate."

    In [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2006, 1:01pm EST

  • The Cost of Criticism

    I received an e-mail from the Lawrence Journal-World's COO, telling me that his company would no longer deliver a newspaper to my home "Because of the comments you have made about our company and our employees."

    I responded with an e-mail and asked the COO if any of my [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2006, 12:53pm EST

  • Journal-World receives kudos from prominent liberal

    Harold Piehler today thanked the Journal-World for its election coverage and endorsement of Democrat Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. He concluded his letter with this question:

    "Does this indicate that there is a glimmer of hope that you might support a Democrat for president in 2008?"
    [www2.ljworld.com]

    It may [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2006, 2:32pm EST

  • Accentuate the negative

    KMBZ at 11:00 a.m. today reported that Democrats should be smiling over CNN's 11/5 generic poll that showed Democrats up over Republicans by 20 points (i.e., 58 to 38).

    KMBZ's report ignored the 11/5 USAT/Gallup poll that showed the Democrats up by just 7 points. The same poll showed [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2006, 1:14pm EST

  • Who rebranded "liberal"?

    Of all the syndicated columnists the Journal-World runs on a regualr basis, only two (George Will and Cal Thomas) are conservatives. To make matters worse, the liberal columnists tend to be dishonest. For example, the Journal-World continued to run Robert Scheer's columns for years after he lied about U.S. [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2006, 11:11pm EST

  • Kid gloves for an old goat

    I just finished reading Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. I initially ignored the Lawrence Journal-World's article about former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's appearance at the Lied Center last month. However, Wright's book reminded me of just how willing the reporter was to [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2006, 10:05pm EST
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