May 14, 2021 12:00
Dan Shelley, RTDNA’s executive director and COO, released this statement following the introduction of the “Fact Checker Regulation Act” (HB4813) in Michigan:
A small faction of the Michigan House of Representatives, which sometimes espouses views outside the mainstream, is using its animus for responsible journalism by targeting fact checkers who help keep journalists and, more relevant in this case, politicians and public officials honest in their discourse.
The greater threat to the First Amendment’s guarantee that journalists can serve their communities by seeking and reporting the truth comes from the tribalistic approach to news and information consumption that has fueled disinformation and misinformation about elections, public policy and political debates.
A press release was sent out by Michigan’s House Oversight Committee announcing their meeting to “examine” the Governor’s Covid-19 nursing home policy. A policy that led to many deaths in Medicaid-funded nursing homes in Michigan.
For months we have heard about New York’s Democrat Governor Cuomo who signed an Executive Order that forced state nursing homes and assisted living facilities, many of whom were ill-equipped to stop the spread of the disease, to accept residents with COVID-19. The decision proved to have fatal consequences, with a third of all coronavirus deaths in the state occurring in nursing homes. Well, Cuomo was not the only governor to do so, there were another 4 Governors, coincidentally all Democrats that issued and signed an Executive order very similar to his.
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Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives are introducing legislation to ban guns in and around the state Capitol. House Bill 4023 would add the