I remember the day in 1986, when I discovered,"everything you read in the paper is not true". the Atlanta Constitution had a three page article, covering different state senate races. The section on Andrews- Colby from '84 was unreal. I thought, all these people don't know a thing about other states and they think every word is true. Just as the media made Ford, out to be a man who could not walk and chew gum at the same time, decades ago they just slanted the news. Then Clinton gave us "SPIN"  now they don't even bother with reality or truth. That is why for the last decade I try to watch everything I can Live.

As for NC, we might as well live in a news blackout zone. If you live in a rural area you have to put forth effort to find out what is going on in Raleigh, and then you have to look up the bills and budget office reports, to see if what you read is true. 

Republicans are held to a higher standard because we profess to have them.

In the new "eat your own in  the primary" GOP world ,we wonder why we keep losing. The press is pefercetly capable of manufacturing dirt on republicians, and as long as we keep doing the shoveling for them  they don't even have to do that