We’ve known since the Reagan years, at least – probably back to the Coolidge years, for that matter – that we can’t rely on the media to represent anything Republicans do honestly. In the Trump era, the legacy media has gone so far off the rails that we cannot rely on them to represent anyone to the right of Vyacheslav Molotov honestly. This has led, as we have seen, to an explosion of alternative media – you’re reading an example of such right now.
In the latest example, Ohio.news, an Ohio-based alternative media site, brings us the story of the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s dishonest and reprehensible cropping of a photo in which Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was signing SB1, Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which prohibits Ohio public schools from using DEI practices in hiring or student admissions. The problem is, the Cleveland Plain Dealer cropped the…
