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2nd rate journalism

February 20, 2007 By stgm

Thank goodness for Adrian Walker, the one columnist at the Globe (or should it be the Gotcha?) who was able to put the Deval/Cadillac story in perspective.  Without hiding the elements of pride and vanity that probably entered into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gov.-patrick, journalism

Sentinel turns its front page over to Barbara Anderson

February 16, 2007 By nodrumlins

Here is Chabot's lead:BOSTON -- First there was the million-dollar gala.Then there were the helicopter rides.Now Gov. Deval Patrick is spending taxpayer dollars on staff for his wife.The state has hired a $72,000-a-year chief of staff whose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barbara-anderson, deval-patrick, journalism

Why Peter Berdovsky cannot afford to plead guilty

February 5, 2007 By AmberPaw

Peter Berdovsky originally received asylum due to his role as a student dissenter in Belarus, and the fact that he had already looked down the barrel of a gun there.  How much has Belarus changed? Apparently not much.  And Peter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: belarus, immigration, journalism, peter-berdovsky, student-dissent, walter-prince

Moyers video: The Plantation Mentality in American Media Today

January 13, 2007 By mbair

The full remarks can be accessed at the above link, the Moyers video is on the front page there in QT if you need it. The direct YouTube links to the speech are re-printed here:Bill Moyers at NCMR 2007 -- PART 1 (32:20)Bill Moyers at NCMR … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-moyers, buying-the-war, class, free-trade, iraq, journalism, martin-luther-king, media, media-reform, national-conference-on-media-reform, ncmr, npr, pbs, robert-sallow, trade

Ethics and the Lowell Sun – Like Oil and Water

November 29, 2006 By lynne

The Sun's - and Meehan's take? Well, the Sun goes rough on the Rep most of the time so there's no ethical problem here. Even if it does look like a politician and a media outlet shaking the tree for profit. Some of the premium-cost ad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: journalism, lowell-sun, media

Guerrilla Vlogger: People Powered Media – Edwards, Lamont and Deval Patrick

September 1, 2006 By mbair

The Conventional Wisdom on YouTube: The current state of Conventional Wisdom on citizen-generated media/content, CGM or CGC, is not very insightful by and large. The New York Times ran a piece a couple of weeks ago discussing the YouTube - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chris-pirillo, citizen-journalism, democrats, deval-patrick, gnomedex, governor, john-edwards, journalism, massachusetts, media, ned-lamont, one-america, politics

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