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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Kentucky Governor Lashes Out At Newspaper, Pro Publica


Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) on Wednesday lashed out at Gannett's Louisville Courier Journal for partnering with Pulitzer-winning investigative journalism project ProPublica.

In a video message posted to YouTube, Bevin tore into the paper over the partnership with what he called a "biased, left-wing organization" and urged Kentuckians not to trust the paper.

“This is the same Courier Journal, mind you, which, while it’s dying, continues to maintain that they are unbiased, that they are good journalists and that they are interested in transparency, and holding government…accountable,” Bevin says in the video. “Who’s holding the Courier Journal accountable?”

According to The Hill, the newspapers announced the partnership earlier Wednesday, noting that the Courier Journal is one of seven local papers selected to work with ProPublica, a nonprofit, to investigate an unspecified state government program.

Bevin in the video blasts the Courier Journal for what he says is a lack of transparency in their reporting and partnership with ProPublica.



He also criticizes the publication over its founding history. The founders of ProPublica, Herbert and Marion Sandler, have given over a billion dollars to largely progressive philanthropic causes including the ACLU,

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