Michael Ackley

Michael Ackley, a weekly columnist for WorldNetDaily, has been a journalist for more than 40 years, working in newspapers as reporter, editor and daily columnist before a six-year stint as journalism instructor and campus newspaper adviser at California State University, Hayward (now CSU East Bay).

He can provide a decades-long perspective into the decline of print newspapers and the news media in general. This decline includes the denigration of the ideal of objectivity and the elevation of the concept of "fair and balanced," the acceptance – even approbation – of bias, and especially the abandonment of newspapers primary role and responsibility, which is the coverage of government, particularly the exposure of incompetence, corruption and abuse of power.

Mr. Ackley has a keen sense of the ironic and leavens his talks with humorous observations and anecdotes from his long career in the profession.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master of science degree in Mass Communications from San Jose State University.

Michael Ackley's WorldNetDaily columns