Tag: local

The Left’s Plan to Sabotage Talk Radio and Local News

For its nearly universal control over the news-industrial complex, the left has failed to penetrate the one and only media format dominated by conservatives: talk radio. Despite repeated liberal incursions into the medium, from Mario Cuomo to Tom Daschle to Air America, the left cannot make a showing. Now, it has launched a series of deceptive websites and bought up […]

WAMU shutters local news site DCist, axes 15 staffers

Washington’s National Public Radio affiliate WAMU shuttered its local news website DCist and laid off 15 employees Friday morning, citing a desire to shift away from digital journalism. The cuts targeted online news coverage on social issues such as climate change, immigration and criminal justice as part of a strategy to refocus on radio programming, […]