It is unfortunate that many current reporters are just stenographers – just spitting back out what they are told with no pushback or questions about the self-serving spin they are fed.
Hot phone news, fresh off the wire from the Journal-Opinion.
Senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to suppress COVID-19 content that the platform otherwise would not have restricted.
Vermont courts need a “public is public” model whereby any record publicly available at a courthouse is available online unless prohibited by law.
When a South Carolina man skinny-dips in front of two uncomfortable women, a reporter decides to get involved. And Elon Musk and Jesus.
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Bought a copy and, reading it, quickly realized why he had stopped.
The defamation suit that Nina Jankowicz, former dir. of Homeland Sec.’s disinformation board, filed against Fox News was dismissed in DE, July 22.
Be like Abby.
FPF said Crosby was engaging in a ‘personal attack’ when she suggested meritocracy as an alternative to DEI in schools.
General Michael Flynn will hold a live Q & A with the audience at the documentary movie “Flynn,” which will be shown 4 PM, August 3 at Ignite Church in Williston.
First study on the health effects of Taylor Swift’s celebrity finds an overall positive influence on fans’ attitudes on body image and disordered eating
An icon of whistleblower journalism tastes freedom.
No, a 14% property tax increase is not a decrease.
All in all, the real winner of the debate was not Trump or Biden, but it was CNN.
Help is on the way to Vermont’s financially strapped local news media. Whether the shekels come with shackles remains to be seen.
VCF has ties to out-of-state interests, and both historically and currently favors far-Left media.
As government-funded internet ends, Burlington company fills gap
Mulvaney-Stanak and her office has refused to return phone calls to local media members and ignored them when they meet up with her at public events.
A promising approach uses local philanthropy and know-how to offer trustworthy coverage not driven by fashionable political trends.
Plattergate? Reddit readers are eating it up, and dishing it out.
The “New York Child Data Protection Act” was approved by the NY State Legislature on Friday.
The app Fizz has now been banned from use at the school. The whole scandal caught the attention of national media. “Anonymity and youth, what could go wrong?”
Building enough solar generation to meet the state’s energy goals will result in deforestation and loss of farmland, Bill Huff and Mike Tagliavia said during a co-production of two popular Vermont media.
“Defending Motherhood is not bigoted”
Will national mea culpas from Uri Berliner and Nellie Bowles be followed by anyone at, say, VTDigger?
He has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5,000 for equipment costs, locations rental, and wages for the cast and crew.
Sunita Dholakia, of Rutland, is one of 114 finalists competing in Haut Monde Mrs. India Worldwide, an annual beauty pageant for married Indian women across the globe.
“I wish the Vermont liberal media was a little more self aware of how little it does in promoting diverse views and engaging in serious discussion of the problems we all face instead of its current ideological bashing of viewpoints it disapproves of. But in the end it is just a reflection of the larger media environment that it tries to emulate,” Chelsea Green Publisher Emeritus Margo Baldwin said.
“Legislators do not have the right to steal the budget process,” said one social media commenter. “Stop spending like there is no end.”
How social media and online news algorithms fuel extremism across the political spectrum
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Did a popular columnist misquote a Burlington legislator? Or are some lawmakers getting touchy about their taxation voting record? You decide.
“When I go home, a lot of times what I’m doing is studying Scripture, getting into the Word of God, trying to understand it better. And I feel like God’s been preparing me for an opportunity,” Kittell said.
The era of “equal time” in the media is long gone.
Christian school banned from competitions; Fired snowboard coach wins lawsuit; WCAX takes down report
Baruth tells senators to ignore voters and dictates to media how to report.
Join VDC for a live, interactive review of 2024 Town Meeting results at 8:30 PM tonight.
See ‘n share this brief reel of Rob Roper’s riff on the intentional complexity of Vermont school funding.
Rob Roper says the exorbitant cost of public education isn’t a bug in the Legislature’s funding system, it’s a feature.
MVCS Coach Chris Goodwin and attorney Ryan Tucker were interviewed on Fox. Jones first turned his attention to a statement put out by the state on the matter.
“We should know more within 12 hours,” a Verizon boilerplate message says about an inquiry into “potential network disruption” in Barre.
The Vermont scenes, as depicted in Vermont Magazine and other tourist outlets, are being usurped, and our Legislative leaders need to stop their denial until the scourge is eradicated.
A woman who says she was banned from the local social media website Front Porch Forum is voicing her concerns over alleged censorship and political bias.
There’s a reason the “He Gets Us” commercial didn’t show a liberal washing the feet of someone in a MAGA hat, or a BLM protestor washing an officer’s feet. That would’ve been actually subversive.
Biden administration deems its detractors, Conservatives “vulnerable to disinformation methods”.
Buckle up as Kevin Sorbo, Barry Bostwick, Jon Lovitz and Emmanuelle Vaugier star in new comedy ‘Potwins’ TV Show on X Platform
Stewart Ledbetter is a rare breed of reporter.
‘Free thinker?’ Guilty as charged, says Paul Bean of the accusation made against him by the executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party.
Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen signed a form, required under Vermont law, that Lynda Bluestein of Connecticut was in a clear state of mind when she made the decision to end her life.
“Can you imagine being called names daily because of the color of your skin? I can’t. I can not place myself in these children’s shoes,” a Milton mother says.
Former Senate candidate and EAI prez buys community radio station chain.
“On the left, they’re trying to weaponize food. They’re saying it’s all about equity,” Klar tells Stuckey. “They’re saying it’s all about cows, and then climate change comes in. But in the end, people need to eat.”
It comes as no surprise that by far the most gifted and prolific living essayist on the subject of Vermont liberty would use a railroad double-entendre to announce the conclusion of 30 years of bi-weekly commentaries.
The newspaper, founded in 1889, has overcome some daunting challenges in the past few years, It lost 90% of its advertising revenue at the outset of COVID-19 and suspended its print edition.
VDC readers are confirming the totalitarian nature of Front Porch Forum (FPF), couched in the guise of a so-called Public Benefit Corporation.
VTDigger no longer bothering to hide the bias! Gaye Symington is made the new president of the organization.
Penn’s policies have been guided by the Constitution and the law – but that’s about to change, the university president said.
Intelligence agencies changed their focus from working together to counter terrorism to countering populism, which spread via social media and resulted in the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
On Facebook, Vermont union leader David Van Deusen blames “rightwing extremists” for the attack on the three Palestinian men.
“The Squiers and staff created something really special in WDEV. They somehow made all of us listeners feel like we were part of something bigger. They created a connection that has often comforted the community as much as it informed.”
Exposing the coordinated global effort to censor and propagandize public opinion against the right under the guise of human rights.
Right Side Up relates local issues to the larger national issues – the national border crisis, for example.
Granite Grok founder Skip Murphy started it as a blog, only to see it grow in popularity. It is now the most read conservative publication in New Hampshire with many millions of views and readers from around the globe.
“What a gross double standard you operate by!,” Green tells FPF. “You’ll gladly publish postings which you agree with, but you somehow almost always find reasons to censor mine.”
Questions critical of the Israeli response to the Hamas invasion are asked by a leading Vermont news outlet. Governor Scott responds.
We all want to see the ecological systems of our state thrive. I am certain that we will not achieve this common goal by being cruel to one another.
In yet another potential double standard, the popular local social media company Front Porch Forum is choosing favorites when running ads for political forums.
Our most widely read/viewed news outlets are more concerned with protecting a politically powerful special interest than they are about informing the public.
The Long Emergency documentary film addresses what producers believe is a looming energy crisis featuring author and social critic James Howard Kunstler.
When a former Burlington city councilor seized the mic from a Burlington resident making a public comment, the media yawned.
While emphasizing that cost increases in many areas led to his decision, Publisher Greg Lamoureux holds the new .44% payroll tax partly responsible.
St. Johnsbury Police Department Corporal George Johnson’s press releases depart from the canned style taught at the Dragnet Joe Friday School of Cop Speak.
Starting today, Facebook and Instagram, Meta’s prominent platforms, are restricting Canadian users from viewing or sharing news links, along with broadcaster videos and photos.
One-day October conference refused ad space on Front Porch Forum, a public platform that claims to “help neighbors connect.”
An anti-child trafficking movie shunned by the media elite and denied distribution for five years is the top grossing film in America.
As part of the $650,000 investment, the university is funding a full-time, year-round position for an editor of student stories with the Community News Service at UVM.
“Rock bottom is such a lonely place,” the WCAX co-anchor said. A mental health advocate, she decided that “if I’m going to talk the talk, I’ve got to walk the walk.”
One of Vermont’s progressive media hall monitors told a reader to ‘get back to me when Klar’s at the top of any list.’
“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of former United States government agent Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery.
“If we’re going to lower the temperature of our politics, we have to lower the stakes of politics. Politics permeates absolutely too much,” George Will said.
In addition to the budget, bills that (Cutler said) could be vetoed include underage voting in Brattleboro. ranked choice voting, the legislative pay hike, universal school meals, and a gun control bill.
VTDigger has presented a biased perspective on gender-affirming industry ‘shield laws,’ H.89 and S.37, into law on May 10th by Governor Scott.
I decided to watch the Louder With (Steven) Crowder coverage and play along to the drinking game with a nice Temperanillo and cigar.
I don’t recommend True North Reports as a source for journalistic integrity,” the junior senator from Windham County told a Burlington resident this week.
Despathy is perhaps Vermont’s most outspoken opponent of the hypocrisy of equity advocates supporting S.5, the climate reduction bill that adversely punishes poor rural Vermonters and rewards a renewable energy industry benefiting from horrific third world mining of essential metals.
Vermont’s news media are rattled and upset. They lost control of the narrative on S.5, the Affordable Heating Act.
Culture commentator Jordan Peterson saw the news about a Quechee girls team forfeiting against a team with a 6’4″ trans center, and tweeted “it’s about time” to his 3.7 million followers.
Let us see all the EB-5 records, a Vermont media organization today asked the Vermont Supreme Court.
A Vermont news service wrote a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ report on a court clearing a St. Albans police officer of assault charges. His defense lawyer, however, had more to say.
McKibben’s New Yorker essay ignores geoengineering’s long history, its differing covert and overt purposes, and its profoundly dysfunctional use as a dangerous mechanism for “climate control.”
Guy Page, editor of Vermont Daily Chronicle, will be a guest in studio at 8:05 AM Friday on WVMT’s Morning Drive with Kurt and Anthony.Callers are welcome, call 1-888-414-0303.
Veteran videographer and interviewer Rob Williams of Vermont Independent and Plan V-TV talks about the state of Vermont media with Guy Page of Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The explanation: “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization.”
Many Vermonters, even those born and raised here, have never visited either Island Pond or Stratton Mountain. As their live webcams show, there’s a lot to see and do there.
A Vermont video news website has published a single link with three years of reporting on vaccine and mask freedom.
The red lines on the map show where drivers found no cell service at all. Very few of them are in populous Chittenden County.
“The cancel culture is real! YouTube has cancelled us!” Restoring Our Faith leaders said today.
One byte of information Google would prefer you don’t know: they’re tracking the locations of Vermont’s Android phone users.
