'Conservative,' 'liberal': truth in labeling?
From time to time, I get complaints from readers about political labeling. Why is it necessary, they ask, for the newspaper to label people or groups as conservative or liberal? What do such political or ideological slugs really mean?
A conservative Locke on the paper?
Is the N&O a shill for the right wing? That criticism would surprise a lot of our readers, but it's one being made lately by some folks who see excessive attention to the conservative John Locke Foundation in the pages of The News & Observer.
Teen's video raises new issues
Newspapers are pretty good at covering the news. What happens when they become a part of the news?
True-to-life images in the photographs?
So, what color was that golf cap crowning Tiger Woods' triumphant head last Sunday?
Raleigh and Charlotte's news link
The Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer got closer last month. Did you notice?
Lacrosse error clouds story's credibility
It's a reporter's greatest fear. He has been working for a month on a major investigative piece, part of the biggest ongoing local news story of the year. It runs as the lead story on the Sunday front page. And the key fact that begins the artic
Should papers change your way with words?
A recent News & Observer story from Robeson County brought up an interesting question about journalistic practice: Should the newspaper clean up the bad grammar of the people it quotes?
Front page says a lot about a newspaper
One criticism I occasionally get from readers is about The N&O's front page. That most important space has strayed from serious journalism, these readers say, and neglects national and world events in favor of local news.
The news enjoys a summer cruise
Had it not been for the so-called "booze cruise" hosted by the state for bigwigs at public expense over the Fourth of July weekend, what would The N&O have to write about in the news doldrums of summer?
Mideast news tests coverage at home
When violence escalates in the Middle East, so does reader rhetoric about newspapers' coverage of the news.
Sailing into headwinds over the Fourth
Fourth of July leftovers: A number of readers are puzzled that The N&O runs the Bill of Rights on the editorial page every Fourth of July, as it did last Tuesday:
Surveillance, security and the press
The story that most aroused N&O readers in the past week has to do with the press and national security. When is it appropriate for newspapers to publish information that could jeopardize our common safety and well-being?
