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MACDONALD: What Real Reporting Looks Like?

June 6, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Way back when, GraniteGrok had a digital subscription to the Union Leader. For non-Granite Staters, this is the state’s largest (as in most widely circulated) daily print newspaper. Many years ago, it was the nation’s most conservative daily newspaper, but after William Loeb died, it modernized but didn’t change too much journalistically, not until after … Read more

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (In Conclusion)

March 5, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Welcome back for the final installment of this year’s NewsGuard drive-by. The annual interface between GraniteGrok.com and an establishment censor that uses a rigged, partisan scoring scheme to scare readers away from information the globalists don’t want them to see. Here are the links to part one, part two, and part 3. . NewsGuard’s final two questions … Read more

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When Did Journalists Become Novelists

April 30, 2025 Ray Cardello

Sixty years ago, when there were only three network stations on your black-and-white TV, the 6 PM and 11 PM news was must-see TV programing. This era was before satellite radio, UHF channels, and 24/7 cable news. ABC, NBC, and CBS owned the airwaves, and the news anchor was one of the most credible individuals … Read more

Bloggers Used To Be Less Than Whale Snot on the Journalistic Totem Pole

February 20, 2025 Skip

The “Press” has “fluid” definitions for Free Speech depending on who legitimately gored their ox or whose ox they are trying to gore. And too often, their (retributional) ideological persuasions override their common sense (provided they have some of the latter left): And THIS would be MAGNIFICENT if the MSM would just go away from … Read more

Bananas: Journalism Lay-off-Pandemic Sweeps Across America to Vermont

July 16, 2024January 30, 2024 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

Investigative journalists are dropping like a congressional aide’s pants across the U.S. as main stream media lays-off thousands. Fake news powerhouse the L.A. Times has nearly emptied its Washington D.C. bureau just months before what many consider the biggest election year in American history. This shocking move has many of the journalists questioning the real … Read more

The Dangerous Trend Toward Uniformity of Opinion and Perception

June 24, 2026October 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

One of my favorite lines from something I wrote a few years back is that to a Democrat, Diversity is a room full of people who look different but think the same. That it is acceptable to be colorblind if everyone agrees with you on everything, without exception.

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Governments Are Using Intimidation To Regulate Independent Journalists on the Decentralized Internet

September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 Op-Ed

In the last century, states have had great control over channels of media. In most of the West, lobbying groups and cartels working with “liberal” and “democratic” governments regulated who could broadcast while governments, with their endless pools of money and political force, competed alongside private or foreign establishments.

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‘Anti’ Labels Are Lazy Journalism

June 30, 2023 Ian Underwood

A lot of journalists these days have a vocabulary problem. In particular, they think that if someone wants to repair or reform an institution, he is anti-[that institution].

What’s News?

February 9, 2023 Steve Earle

Does anyone who still has a grasp on their mind still reads the Laconia Daily Sun? Well, mostly I just read the Letters to the Editor. Yea I know, everyone’s entitled to an opinion but as the saying goes, “not to their own facts”. What has been burning my biscuits lately is that the so … Read more

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Challenge Accepted – Challenge Won. Ethics Complaint Was Filed with the Laconia Daily Sun

July 23, 2022July 22, 2022 Skip

Per usual, running behind. So, to catch up on this, a quick recap from yesterday: As I said here, I stopped in at the Laconia Daily Sun after the Gunstock Area Commission to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker after his behavior at the GAC meeting. Since no one answered my knocking at the door, having … Read more

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Newbie Journalist Makes up Stories, Newspaper Fires Her, Journalist Professor Mad at Newspaper

June 19, 2022June 19, 2022 Skip

I’ve written a lot, over the years, on both the plunging quality of “journalism” as well as the skyrocketing uplift of the naked partisanship of those “journalists”. Here, thanks to Wokeness, it’s a twofer!

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Why We Can’t Have Substantive Public Discussions

May 14, 2022 Ian Underwood

At the most recent meeting of the Croydon school board, I was talking to a well-educated journalist — at least, given who she works for, I assume she’s well-educated — who seemed to be unable to grasp the difference between taking something from someone and not giving something to someone.

Dartmouth’s Newspaper Editor Gets “Educated” by James O’Keefe

May 14, 2022April 25, 2022 Op-Ed

James O’Keefe is the founder and director of Project Veritas (PV), a corruption-watchdog organization now famous for targeting many Big Tech and Big Pharma companies as well as the political Left’s favored organizations such as ACORN, Planned Parenthood, Teacher Unions, and CNN.

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Democrats Hide 50K Dollar/Year Taxpayer Bailout Per “Journalist” in Massive Spending Bill

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Politicians like to use massive dumpster bills to reward supporters. Democrats are just better at it. The Obama bailout was loaded with giveaways, but the latest effort includes something new. Taxpayer handouts to members of the media.

Media Challenge – Stop Fearmongering COVID and Try Some Balanced “Reporting”

August 23, 2021 Steve MacDonald

If balanced “reporting” were an objective goal, the New Hampshire media would share more of the same stories we publish on our pages. Doctors, epidemiologists, and medical professionals are concerned about the approved narratives and treatments and the absence of viable alternatives.

AP Targets “misinformation” Superspreaders

February 16, 2021

The Associated Press has taken it upon itself to castigate the “AP superspreaders.” The story was written by David Klepper, Farnoush Amiri, and Beatrice Dupuy. It begins:

We Don’t Need No Freaking “Reality” Czar

February 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Today in America from journalists, academics, and politicians; all we are hearing is groupthink. Their concerns are how to combat disinformation and extremism. It is weak-minded crap. The New York Times (NYT) recently ran this disconcerting headline, “How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis.”

Watch CNN’s Jake Tapper Skillfully Challenge Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager Regarding the Supreme Court Appointment Process

October 11, 2020 Ken Eyring

Most of the time the MSM covers a story regarding the presidential campaigns, they appear to parrot the narrative of the Democrat party. That appears to be especially true of CNN.

How the Media will try to help the Biden Campaign Win

September 7, 2020 Kimberly Morin

It’s become painfully obvious over the past few years that corporate media tossed out any journalistic integrity they may have had in the past. You’d have to be hiding under a rock not to notice. They’ve finally taken off their ‘journalistic’ masks and showed that they are nothing but leftists who will essentially do anything … Read more

Elections Are About Values and Principles

July 28, 2020

These are perilous times. Over the last three years, much of what America holds dear has come under threat. That includes individuality, freedom, personal property, and civility. Today truth and life itself are under threat.