Press
Budget, GOP, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Presidential race 2016, Press
Mainstream Press Reports Weakness in Wisconsin
“Leaders of Mr. Walker’s party, which controls the Legislature, are balking at his demands for the state’s budget. Critics say the governor’s spending blueprint is aimed more at appealing to conservatives in early-voting states like Iowa than doing what is best for Wisconsin. Lawmakers are stymied over how to pay for road and bridge repairs…
Madison, Press
State Journal Shrinks
Madison, Press
Smaller
“The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison’s newspaper of record, is not covering the biggest story in town (pending today’s thunderstorms). That would be, of course, the blood-letting in the State Journal’s own newsroom late last week. Six writers given pink slips — four of them involuntarily — and a seventh reporter not being replaced. Credit to…
Business, Journalism, Press
Sliced
The Wisconsin State Journal has launched a new round of staff cuts that look more like slashes, laying off four staffers and announcing that three key departures will go unfilled.
Via Wisconsin State Journal axes veteran journalists @ Isthmus.
GOP, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Press
When?
ALEC, Business, Legislation, Lobbying, Press, Television
Paid
Presidential race 2016, Press
Target
“We’re seeing evidence of this movement this week with the NYT article “Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles” and last week’s “Marco Rubio and His Wife Cited 17 Times for Traffic Infractions.” These are ludicrously weak attacks. Rubio bought an $80,000 fishing boat (which the NYT called a “luxury speedboat”) after he received an…
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Police, Police brutality, Press, Television
Moore v. Clarke
“The country is just now getting to know Sheriff Clarke, but I’m all too familiar with his inflammatory antics,” Moore writes “His proclivity for provocation coupled with his distorted view of black America has grown more extreme over the years, earning him numerous appearances on Fox News. He has helped the network spread a slew…
Gov. Walker, Press
Covering Walker
Gov. Walker, Politics, Presidential race 2016, Press
Former Journal reporter hits SKW
Scott Walker not only is the most boring man in public life — what books does he read? what poems does he commit to memory? what music moves him to tears? where is his sense of beauty, of justice? of mystery? — but he is the most dangerous of the 19 Republican candidates, more dangerous…
Abortion, Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Press, Radio
Walker Says He’s Victim of ‘WDS’
Crony Capitalism, Cronyism, Press, WEDC
WEDC above the fold
Which leads me back to the front pages of this past week’s Wisconsin State Journal. There we found solid reporting about WEDC from Dee Hall and Matthew DeFour. If you want to know what intrepid reporters look like I suggest you look at them as they research and work to piece together the convoluted parts…
Politics, Press, Television
Less than Zero
Via Fox News Viewers Factually Worse-Informed Than People Who Don’t Follow News At All @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.
Press, Social Media
Social media in driver’s seat
Via “As much as anything, the Facebook deal is a concession by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. that the paper’s app strategy failed to produce the turnaround the company hoped for” @ Althouse.
Madison, Press
Cat has State Journal‘s tongue
Corruption Probe, Free Market, Press
We’ll never be that lucky
Complaining about this assault on political speech is only “self-righteous whining,” says Mr. Rickert, who makes his living off the First Amendment, undiluted, thanks to a generous exemption from campaign finance law. (Read it and weep here.) Via Chris Rickert, hand over your laptop and cell phone this instant! @ Blaska’s Bring It!
Press
Jetsam
Via The Tribune Co., emerging from bankruptcy and looking to reshape itself, is now considering the sale of all its newspapers @ POLITICAL CAPITAL.
Local Government, Press
What’s Left, Chronicling What’s Left
Over nearly eight years that I’ve been writing, local print news has declined, and its online versions have not been able to stem erosion in revenue and quality. Although the quality’s poor – and it is – these local papers still offer a lingering value. Now and again, they print the views of Whitewater’s town…
Ethics, Press, Television
Time to Go
Humor, Pres. Obama, Press
WHCD
Via Watch: President Obama’s full remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner @ Blogging Blue. .
Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Presidential race 2016, Press, State Government, Wisconsin
Des Moines Register doesn’t fact check
Pres. Obama, Press
Obama @ WHCD
See, that’s funny. It uses truth and self-deprecation — traditional attributes of humor — in a fresh enough, edgy enough way. Via “Six years into my presidency some people still say I’m arrogant, aloof, condescending. Some people are so dumb.” @ Althouse.
Corruption Probe, Law, Liberty, Press, Wisconsin
Some raids are more equal than others
Early this week, the National Review came out with an explosive cover story detailing the experience of three private citizens subjected to armed police with battering rams conducting pre-dawn raids of their homes, seizing cell phones and personal computers, and admonishing them to tell no one — even as the authorities apparently tipped off favored…
Conservatives, Press, Wisconsin
National Press Notices MacIver
GOP, Presidential race 2016, Press
Hiding
Chris Christie has failed to hold an open-ended press conference since November 12, mostly restricting his public presence to town hall meetings. While I understand his need for a new strategy following his lashing out and political explosions that resulted from ‘Bridgegate’ it does seem to me that his lack of ability to stand before…
Conservatives, Press
Bradley Gets is 15 minutes of national
Badgers, Packers, Press, Sports
Rodgers Sacks Critics
Also with interview requests, sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it's no. I'm not there for u, I'm there to support my friends n UW. — Aaron Rodgers (@AaronRodgers12) March 29, 2015
Law, Police, Press
Wisconsin Police-Shooting Law a National Topic
Gov. Walker, Presidential race 2016, Press
No Press Questions
Crime, Police, Press
Half True is All Bad
ICYMI Monday: Black coalition says blacks 8 times more likely to be arrested than whites in Madison. Half True http://t.co/y3caNNIZd9 — PolitiFact Wisconsin (@PolitiFactWisc) March 10, 2015
Law, Liberty, Open Government, Press, Public Records, Sheriff, Wisconsin
Fight for public records escalates
A Milwaukee-based public interest law firm has opened a second front in a legal war over Wisconsin police censoring names and other key parts from reports if the information came from driver’s license records. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty on Tuesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of a reporter with Wisconsin Reporter, a conservative…