This is a strange twitter “gotcha” from Mitchell Schnurman, a columnist for the Dallas Morning News:
Texas politicos brag about small gov't, limited regs. Now they plan to tie up Obamacare navigators with red tape. http://t.co/uAQRM0LE9u
— Mitchell Schnurman (@mitchschnurman) January 7, 2014
Of course, Obamacare represents interference with markets, large government (not small), and patronage (the “Navigator” program is not subject to much in the way of
Many journos who use Twitter place the disclaimer “RTs don’t constitute endorsement” (or some variant) in their bio, presumably to keep up the illusion of not having an opinion on politics, which they can therefore cover objectively.
It’s really kind of a silly claim, but that’s the modern j-school mindset at work here in the U.S.
Still, what’s fun about Twitter is that those journos who do a fair amount of RTing — say, the Houston Chronicle‘s leftwing bureau
I don’t bother much with posts about media bias these days for any number of reasons (it’s a little like shooting fish in a barrel, it eats up a lot of time, there’s less need for it now that academics have taken up the matter more rigorously), but every once in a while it’s still instructive to take apart a story that clearly illustrates the phenomena. So without further adieu, here’s a graf-by-graf examination of a story that appeared
The Texas Tribune, founded through the vision (and cold hard cash) of a onetime Democratic activist who claims to have forsworn traditional politics, posted an interesting story Monday about an area Tea Party activist who had at least one *ahem* interesting association ten years ago:
As recently as 2003, the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party had a very different title: director of propaganda for the American Fascist Party.
James Ives, a prominent Tea Party activist
Evan, Cory, and I threw open the doors to our new project today.
Please come check out Texas Iconoclast.
Evan does a nice job describing our thinking here, and the About page has a bit more.
Basically, we’re offering a daily roundup of essential reading on Texas Politics, from a center-right perspective, with a little commentary thrown in for good measure. We’re still feeling our way through the group production a bit, but eventually I