The brouhaha-du-jour in the media world is the decision by the "Standing Committee of Correspondents" of the U.S. Senate Press Gallery to deny congressional press credentials to SCOTUSblog, the source of the best available coverage of the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 23, 2014
Boston’s Marty Walsh joins Bill de Blasio to lead nationwide mayors’ fight against income inequality
Today the Christian Science Monitor is running a story about Boston mayor Marty Walsh teaming up with NYC mayor Bill de Blasio to lead a national mayors' task force to reduce income inequality. de Blasio just announced it at this year's US … [Read more...]
FOIA: Can a Blog be Part of the News Media?
cross-posted at Letters Blogatory Short story: the government says my FOIA requests are not entitled to be processed as quickly as a newspaper reporter's requests, because I write on a blog. Read on! … [Read more...]
More on the People’s Pledge: getting to the heart of the issue
After I posted my rebuttal to Globe columnist Joanna Weiss's column about the People's Pledge, a Twitter debate ensued which, as usual, raised more questions than it answered. Because it's difficult to engage in thoughtful debate in … [Read more...]
Attorney Christopher J. Bulger Acquits Himself and Indicts Judge Robert Mulligan, Attorney Paul Ware and Supreme Judicial Court In Lawyers Weekly Interview
By Ernest Boch, III Staff Reporter (Boston, MA) Attorney Christopher J. Bulger, 42 of Hanson, accused the Supreme Judicial Court of keeping him "buckled under a confidentiality order" while its special counsel Paul Ware was allowed … [Read more...]