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You in a heap o’ trouble!
Meet J’Lynn Hersey! Just four weeks after his 18th birthday, young Mr Hersey managed to rack up an impressive list of criminal charges: KRS §508.010 Assault, First Degree, a Class B felony, 1 count KRS...
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More ‘journolism’ from the Lexington Herald-Leader
Brandi Whitaker, a former Madison County teacher, pleaded guilty to unlawful use of electronic device to induce a minor in 2017. She was given shock probation that same year. WKYT. Click to enlarge.No,...
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Editorial cartoonists gobsmacked by reality
Would it be wrong of me to retort, “Learn to code“? Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher, coined the phrase “the dismal science” to refer to economics in the 19th century,...
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The Lexington Herald-Leader gets a new executive editor
We have noted, many times, that the Lexington Herald-Leader has been significantly out-of-touch with the views of the people in the central-and-eastern Kentucky counties it (supposedly) serves. So,...
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Brianna Coppage, via St Clair School District, through St Louis Post-Dispatch. The internet was supposed to help more people become more informed about what is happening in the world around us. It...
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Journolism: The credentialed media don’t exactly lie, but they conceal...
This site frequently references “journolism, the spelling ‘journolism’, or ‘journolist,’ as the case may be, which comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal...
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He will not do well in prison
We have previously noted when the Lexington Herald-Leader deliberately structured a story to conceal the sexual orientation of an offender, so I was pleasantly surprised when the newspaper told the...
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The Lexington Herald-Leader once again tramples on McClatchy Mugshot Policy ....
We have noted, dozens of times, the McClatchy Mugshot Policy. Though I have never been able to find it officially published, when it was first emailed to McClatchy reporters and editors, a couple of...
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Imposing California standards on a central Kentucky newspaper is not the way...
This site has recently reported on the problems print newspapers, which are, in the end, simply updated 18th century technology, competing in the 21st century. We have noted how the Lexington...
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Once again, I was right: the Lexington Herald-Leader has endorsed all Democrats.
On October 4th, I engaged in a Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — conversation with Rick Green, the executive editor of what passes for my closest newspaper, the Lexington Herald-Leader, concerning...
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