News Journal Finally Reports Walker Job…Leaves A Few Key Things Out.

News Journal Finally Reports Walker Job…Leaves A Few Key Things Out.

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Well, the story was broken here at DL, and it will remain an open question as to whether the so-called 'paper of record' would have even covered it if we hadn't. At least, they finally have covered it. The story, which is a good one, raises as many questions as it answers. Oh, and it leaves out one of the key elements of the whole stinkin' mess: Walker getting the job with an agency under the purview of the state police after carrying the cops' water in burying the death penalty bill in her committee. Under the approving eye of former state cop and current Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf. The questions revolve around how she got the job.  First, read these excerpts from the News-Journal article...
Is This What’s Happening at the News Journal?

Is This What’s Happening at the News Journal?

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We all know that the NJ is working on the lastest Gannett revenue extraction scheme -- the Newsroom of the Future -- that mainly looks like a way to implement a staff reduction while re-orienting their attention to their website, rather than the paper. This article from the Nashville Scene provides some details of what is going on at The Tenneseean (another Gannett property going through the same thing):

Adventures in Subscribing to the Digital News Journal

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So the NJ has put up their paywall, and you are limited to 5 articles (per week? per month?) and they helpfully count down the number of free articles you have left in a box in the lower right hand of your screen every time you click on a new article. I waited until the paywall finally went into effect to sign up (for the record, I actually buy this paper every day I am in town) and preserve my access to online articles. I've tried subscribing twice online and finally called today to figure out why I still can't get the NJ online.

NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

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The editorial in Saturday's NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration's ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn't the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women's health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.