Interview: Hodge on “Conscience of Kansas” radio about poll on media bias

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 16th at 02:06 AM  | 

Poll: Three out of four likely voters say reporters try to help candidates.  And by a 59-18% margin, voters say Barack Obama received better coverage than Mitt Romney. Click here or below to listen to the audio of Paul Ibbetson’s interview of Benjamin Hodge.   Broadcast date August 31, 2012. Click here to read the Rasmussen poll. Some of the questions: When covering a political | Read More »

The flawed, anti-democratic judicial selection model used in many states

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 9th at 01:25 AM  | 

The following article is published in Kansas City’s new monthly print newspaper, The Citizen, during this month of March 2011.  If you’re in Kansas City, please contact The Citizen’s owners to ask how you might help make the paper as successful as possible (for example, if you know of coffee shops or bars where the paper can be dropped off for free to readers. This article is about how | Read More »

Tonight at 6 p.m., listen live — KMBZ 980′s Darla Jaye interviews JCCC student Kathy Brown on free speech problems

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  May 28th at 05:25 PM  | 

Click here to view a Web page version of my recent Email on this topic. Listen in tonight at 6 p.m. on 980 AM radio, as Darla Jaye interviews Catholic lawyer and former Johnson County Community College student Kathy Brown.  Click here to listen live at KMBZ’s Web site. It is amazing, the ongoing unethical and incompetent leadership of JCCC leaders President Terry Calaway, elected Trustee | Read More »

NPR interview with Ben Hodge, Amanda Grosserode, Daniel Gilyeat on KC Tea Parties. KCUR, 89.3 FM.

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  April 19th at 08:34 PM  | 

On KCUR/NPR 89.3 FM. This aired on Tax/Tea Day, on Thursday, April 15, 2010. The reporter was Laura Ziegler. Click here to “watch” the audio of NPR’s Tea Party interview at YouTube’s site, along with a slideshow of pictures from the 2009 and 2010 Tea Parties. To clarify two things from the interview: I’m described as a libertarian.  That’s not incorrect, but “conservative” is probably more | Read More »