I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Give the conservative talk show host Frank Beckmann credit for having Michigan Messenger on the air Tuesday to discuss reporter Eartha Melzer’s report on Republican Party plans to use foreclosure lists in challenging voters on Election Day. We may often disagree with WJR-Detroit‘s local morning radio host but he held a feisty but fair discussion featuring Michigan-based Melzer and our Washington D.C.-based [...]
Either Detroit radio station WJR-AM 760 is not aware there was also a Democratic primary in Michigan or it’s finally admitting it only caters to the right side of the political spectrum. A recent poll asking people who they plan to vote for during Michigan’s Jan. 15 presidential primary only listed Republican candidates among the [...]
In the world of conservative radio host Frank Beckmann, calling someone a “wacko” is not name-calling. Last week Beckmann, who hosts the morning show on WJR-AM, was railing against the international scientific body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that just issued a report that said, “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” His take [...]
Critics of the anti-Iraq war film “Redacted” plan to continue their nationwide boycott effort when the movie opens in the Detroit area on Friday. The film, by Academy Award-winning director Brian De Palma, was financed by self-made millionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks. It’s a fictionalized story about the brutality [...]
WJR-AM radio host Frank Beckmann took his act — and his conservative views — on the road last week to the Los Angeles Auto Show. On Thursday, he railed at Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s executive order creating the Michigan Climate Action Council to develop a comprehensive climate action plan for the state. Beckmann is well [...]
Despite being only on the air for two shows last week because of illness, conservative WJR-AM radio host Frank Beckmann has plenty of examples of his bias on display. His show on Wednesday, as are all of his shows, served as a two-and- one half hour platform for his conservative views. That’s fine, but not [...]
WJR-AM radio commentator Frank Beckmann is not happy with the results of a Michigan Messenger reader survey. Readers ranked Beckmann in second place among the most biased reporters, columnists and commentators in Michigan. Beckmann tried to laugh the poll off, but it bothered him enough to email me six times. Detroit News editorial page editor [...]
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