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GoLocalProv’s company catchphrases is: “See it. Read it. Share it.” But the often-abrasive tabloid-esque news website doesn’t always make it easy to share – or even see – its content on Twitter. Especially for local reporters.
No more charter school lotteries, pick students at random
A Providence Journal editorial on Thursday, September 14, “Some schools lead the way” praises charter schools for outstanding performances on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests. They are described as “heroic schools…in the urban core,” and are held up as proof that “the old canard that poverty is an […]
The governor’s gaffe about the local media landscape
Over the course of nearly an hour-long talk given by Governor Gina Raimondo at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, you might’ve assumed that the headlines coming out it would be the moment where she questioned whether President Donald Trump was fit to serve as President of the United States, considering Trump’s effect […]
ProJo gives teachers short shrift, reporter complains about property taxes
Not all news stories are created equally, and not all political interest groups get equal treatment in the Providence Journal. For example, the ProJo covered both the National Educational Association of Rhode Island and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity when the teachers’ union and the anti-tax activists each launched television advertisements. But for some […]
ProJo’s partner Inside Sources creates biased news
A feature on page A1 of today’s Providence Journal shows Rhode Island’s largest media organization is subtly moving away from local, unbiased reporting toward generic corporate propaganda posing as neutral news coverage. The Inside Sources story appears to be a news article about cannabis cultivation and energy use. But the ProJo’s new content partner is […]
Providence City Council incentivizing the continued use and expansion of fossil fuels with Dominion tax deal
Giving a $4 million tax break to a fossil fuel company is the opposite of what we should be doing if we are seriously trying to avoid the worst excesses of global warming.
Do Trump’s lies belong in ProJo headlines?
President-elect Donald Trump’s style of addressing the nation, through often baseless and sometimes fully false Twitter rants, poses a unique challenge to journalism, which is unofficially charged with educating America about public affairs. This morning the Providence Journal didn’t quite rise to this unique, new challenge. Here’s what happened. Trump, probably angry that an election […]
ProJo 6/10 editorial wrong on basic facts
The Providence Journal editorial board posted a piece praising Governor Gina Raimondo for her decision to ignore the public process and the recommendations of national and local experts to fast-track the reconstruction of the 6/10 Connector. The Projo is, as a journalistic entity, free to make whatever statements it wants on any issue. The problem with […]
Attorney Sinapi denies conflict of interest
In his capacity as attorney for Harrisville, Sinapi says his job is to protect the Harrisville water supply and the financial integrity of the water board. If “Invenergy brings water into town, through a pipeline,” said Sinapi, “it could render the Harrisville supply redundant. We provide half the water to Pascoag.”
ProJo news story corrects Projo op/ed misinformation
How misleading are Providence Journal editorials on public education and specifically charter schools? The news department ran a front page story this morning overtly correcting misinformation found in its editorials.
CLF: Invenergy lied to public at EFSB hearing in Burrillville
John Niland, director of development for Invenergy, knowingly mislead both the public and the EFSB, the board tasked with deciding the fate of the proposal, at a public hearing in Burrillville, says the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF).
ProJo’s Burrillville bill editorial, annotated
It’s little wonder a Providence Journal editorial would shill for a fossil fuel company while ignoring the people of Burrillville. The once-trusted op/ed board has a long history of engaging in climate science denialism and valuing the will of corporations over the will of the people. But while the ProJo is entitled to its own […]
ProJo employees protest corporate greed, shrinking newsroom
Providence Journal employees publicly rebuked their out-of-state bosses with a noontime demonstration outside of the once-venerable institution’s now increasingly vacant offices and newsroom on Fountain Street. “Now that they own us there is no effort to invest in us,” said Journal reporter John Hill, who is the president of the Providence Newspaper Guild, said of […]
Sheldon Whitehouse talks climate change denial Friday at URI
One side of the debate concerning climate change denial has been represented recently in Wall Street Journal and Providence Journal editorials, with both conservative op/ed boards taking Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to task for suggesting Big Oil should be held liable for lying about climate change. “Under Presidents Clinton and Bush the Department of Justice brought […]
Dear ProJo: Trump’s not the only presidential candidate
If you follow the Journal you would think that Trump was the only candidate that was going to be on the ballot in this state.
ProJo editor admits paper of record did Bernie wrong
Providence Journal Executive Editor David Butler said Rhode Island’s paper of record could have done a better job covering Bernie Sanders’ primary wins onSaturday. “I would agree it deserved more and the paper was GOP heavy,” Butler said, responding to a Nicholas Delmenico post alleging the ProJo isn’t offering fair and ample coverage to Democratic […]
The Bernie blackout is real, and it’s happening at the Providence Journal
The media blackout on U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is real, and it’s happening with our home state newspaper. Please read further for the gruesome details. On Saturday, March 5, 2016, Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in Democratic caucuses by voting margins of 35% in Kansas and 14% in Nebraska. He also lost by a margin of 48% in the […]
Satellites and thermometers: Ed Achorn on truth, science and reason
Is disinformation masquerading as science contributing to the healthy “discussion of major matters of public interest,” as ProJo editor Ed Achorn seems to be claiming? Is it “totalitarian” to demand something akin to the truth and honesty – even in a ProJo op/ed?
Why David Carlin denies existence of white privilege
“…Our white countrymen do not know us. They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people. The great mass of American citizens estimates us as being a characterless and purposeless people; […]
ProJo recycles teacher trash talk with classic dump on public schools
On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at precisely 2:01 AM, an unidentified editorial writer representing the flailing Providence Journal crapped the keyboard and hit the Post button. Did it ever occur to him or her that the headline “Assault on Charters” was an exceedingly poor choice of descriptor for a school-based opinion piece? Did he or she realize […]
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