Perhaps the worst thing to happen to journalism over the years is its simplistic overreliance on the mere “appearance of impropriety” to justify big, splashy stories. No actual wrongdoing need ever be found, just something that might look a bit fishy to a reporter’s overly suspicious eyes. It’s one of the nation’s most anti-democratic trends […]
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Necrophilia is legal in Illinois, and the legislature is cracking down. Who knew? The Belleville News-Democrat and St. Louis Post-Dispatch in February broke the news that state Rep. Daniel Beiser, D-Alton, is sponsoring a measure outlawing posthumous hanky-panky, which attracted attention as far away as England, where the Daily Mail published a blurb. But there […]
