Goodbye, Phoenix….Hope someone will scoop up Adam Reilly [maybe you meant David Bernstein? Reilly decamped a while back and is now at WGBH -ed.] asap…he’s better than anything the Globe and Herald has to offer.
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Thought Adam still had his foot in both camps…no matter where he is, he’s better than the Herald and Globe reporters…he is one of those unique journalists who believes there are two sides to every story and actually tries to seek out and report both…refreshing.
it’s hard to remember where he’s been working for several years? Reilly has long been one of the more useless reporters working in this town- which is probably why it’s so easy to forget what he’s doing. Bernstein has totally put him to shame since taking over the Phoenix political beat.
Appreciate your firmly held dislike of the Globe & the Herald, it’s often deserved. But, let’s not elevate every lazy hack in the effort to grind that ax.
Adam Reilly has written a lot of excellent stories in his illustrious career. He works in radio now, which is perhaps why hlpeary hasn’t seen his work. He definitely is not “a lazy hack” and, indeed, few journalists are these days, if they ever were, because market pressures on news media are so intense. More reporters like Adam Reilly wold be an excellent thing for the Commonwealth, and fewer of them, especially the loss of David Bernstein and The Phoenix in general, is a terrible loss for our political community.
What’s going to happen to all the articles people have linked to from so many places for so many years? If you know where to look you’ll be able to find some of them at archive.org, but all the links will be dead and most people won’t know where to look.
I haven’t seen much of him lately. But I do like David Bernstein. I think he’s definitely better than, say, Glen Johnson. And don’t get me started on the Herald, Eagle Trib, etc.
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A great paper. Both better political and cultural writing and critiques than either of the big papers. The Globe is just a poor mans New York Times with subpar local coverage, and beyond the sports pages the Herald is cheap toilet paper. The Athens of America needs better journalism than this, maybe we can resurrect the Post
they’d hire Bernstein to do his thing. WaPo’s reporting often sucks, but they have Ezra Klein who was once a blogger. They also hired the lying fascist Jennifer Rubin who was also a blogger, but you get my point.
Is Klein offers analysis while Rubin is on the Post’s terrible opinion pages. Considering how ‘liberal’ their bias is supposed to be they have a very right wing and stupid Opinion page. I like EJ Dionne and have grown to like Michael Gerson, but Will is past his prime, and Rubin is just awful, along with Cohen and Samuelson.
The last magazine I read to pretend that I was young was (the)PulseMag
That still around?
and read them on the train on the way home. More often than not I found more worth reading in the dig.
All through high school I’d grab a copy at the Harvard station and take the 77 home. Good times. Glad thats still going strong.
Add an Arts & Culture section, start running movie reviews, and underwrite the restaurant reviews I’d be happy to provide….
I haven’t lived here long enough to have seen The Phoenix in its much-vaunted glory days (I was weaned on the Village Voice), and I know some detractors have claimed it’s been all downhill for decades. I can tell you that it was a godsend for a newcomer to town 13 years ago. I definitely didn’t like the new format, and the merger with the horrorshow that was “Stuff@Night” didn’t bode well. On the other hand, I agree about Bernstein, and am glad, at least, that I’ll remain witness to his daily FB salvoes. I’d add to the list Chris Faraone; I thought at first he was working too hard at being the poor man’s HST, but he’s the real deal (see his lengthy expose on James O’Keefe and this terrific, and funny, article on “The Westborough Eight“); and climate-guy Wen Stephenson as well (check out Wen’s piece on The Globe andthe environment).
Meaning no disrepect to either of them (I appreciate the coverage The Dig has provided some small events I’ve been part of), but “The city of Boston boasts a world-class daily in The Herald and a nationally recognized alternative paper, The Weekly Dig” doesn’t really do it for me.
And rebranding it as just “Stuff” was even dumber. Had no idea the Pheonix had purchased it…
he was a year behind me. Pretty good kid then; even better guy now. Tons of talent, both broad and deep.