Stories by Paul Schmelzer
Paul Schmelzer is a Minneapolis-based writer and edits the website Eyeteeth: A Journal of Incisive Ideas (http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com).
The police assault on civil liberties takes an early start ahead of the RNC.
Posted on Aug 31, 2008
What's driving the Sinclair news cycle? Some employees say the company is pulling strings based on its – and its executives' – financial and political interests.
Posted on Feb 17, 2005
Jon Leiberman was fired for challenging Sinclair Broadcasting's cardinal rule: partisanship before principle. But the company's decision to back away from its original plan reveals the high price of playing politics.
Posted on Oct 20, 2004
Protestors at the Republican National Convention may be trading black masks for tech-savvy tools.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004
The corporate tactics of the Sinclair Broadcast Group offers a glimpse of the post-deregulation world where local news may be produced in one giant newsroom.
Posted on Apr 23, 2003
