Tim Boyum, anchor and host of “Capital Tonight” on Time Warner Cable News, discusses the role nontraditional outlets play in North Carolina’s political journalism. Boyum offered these comments during a March 17, 2014, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...