Fort Worth Star-Telegram has had a fixation on woke articles recently.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, the Star-Telegram is reducing its print editions to focus on digital content, and subscribers were not happy.
The Star-Telegram, which once had 350,000 subscribers during the 1990s is now down to 27,000 in print and online as of 2024, according to the Fort Worth Report.
Some residents and local leaders feel that the Star-Telegram’s leftwing bias was a factor in its decline.
“The bias in the Star-Telegram is so strong that our own local paper is failing in the large city of Fort Worth; people are sick of it. Conservative residents in Fort Worth have ditched their paper subscriptions because they are only interested in the truth and facts, but unfortunately the Star-Telegram is no longer interested in selling a paper that includes that. I miss unbiased journalism. I believe most people are too,” Fort Worth Resident Hollie Plemons told The Dallas Express.
“LOL. The @startelegram is in a death spiral and sinking faster than the Titanic and Bud is playing the violin on the deck,” Tarrant County GOP Bo French wrote on X.
Screenshots from an email sent to French from a Star-Telegram reporter, Cody Copeland, shows leftwing bias.
“I’m writing to see what you thought of Tucker Carlson’s show at Dickies Arena that last night. I see from your X account that you were there. The show was opened by comedian Alex Stein, who said a number of overtly racist jokes,” Copeland emailed to French.
Copeland continues in the email, “He said that dogs have races: chihuahuas are Mexican, he said, and quoted the old Taco Bell slogan; he said golden retrievers are white people ‘because they’re the best behaved;’ and that pit bulls are Black people because ‘pit bulls are 13% of the dog population but they commit 70%’ of dog crime.”
French reacted to the emails on X.
“When a reporter sends you an email like this, it’s even funnier the second time you read it,” French posted on X.
Woke articles that the Star-Telegram have written in the past that have focused on race and drag queens. They include:
“Behind the drag protests in North Texas: Who is picketing, and why queens won’t give in.”
“How Texas schools, teachers can help tackle systemic racism after George Floyd’s death.”
Reporters for the Star-Telegram also formed a leftwing news guild, which is a union for writers.
“The NewsGuild-CWA fights for justice on the job for journalists and other workers,” The News Guild website states.
“Today, @mcclatchy employees were supposed to get paid. But, bc of an apparent logistic issue, we didn’t. The company says it’ll be fixed by tomorrow, but for today the @FortWorthGuild is taking a lunch break together. Our work has value, and we all deserve to be paid on time,” former Star-Telegram writer Emily Brindley posted earlier this year on X.
The Dallas Express reached out to the Star-Telegram for comment but did not receive a response.