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Boston Globe Suddenly Bad at Delivering Boston Globe (Updated)

January 3, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Does anybody know what just happened at the Boston Globe? This morning Globe union staff, including news reporters & photojournalists, have been out helping deliver papers. As Craig Douglas reports for Boston Business Journal, it comes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media

Oh, So This is Why Kevin McCarthy Quit Speaker Race

October 9, 2015 By thegreenmiles

As Michael Calderone reports for Huffington Post, the only question was whether the Beltway media would be successful in helping Kevin McCarthy cover up rumors he's cheated on his wife with a fellow Republican member of Congress: In the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Kevin McCarthy, media, Renee Ellmers, republicans

Which Reporters Fell For the Latest Fracking Front Group?

August 31, 2015 By thegreenmiles

The American Petroleum Institute and America's Natural Gas Alliance have launched the "New England Coalition for Affordable Energy," the second oil & gas industry front group to hit Massachusetts in less than a year. Shocker: It's put … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Coalition to Lower Energy Costs, energy, environment, media, New England Coalition for Affordable Energy

Will Globe Keep Ignoring Columnist’s Blatant Conflicts of Interest?

August 18, 2015 By thegreenmiles

Why is the Boston Globe letting former US Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) sell space on its op-ed page? As Eric Hananoki reports for Media Matters, the Globe has once again allowed Sununu to pen a column without disclosing he's a highly-paid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, energy, environment, internet, John Sununu, media, Media Matters

Corporate Owners Shrink New Bedford Standard-Times, Literally This Time

April 19, 2015 By thegreenmiles

My local New Bedford Standard-Times has been shrinking for years, laying off nearly half of its newsroom staff since 2005, and now it's again shrinking physically. I woke up a month ago to find my morning paper had lost an inch off each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media, new-bedford, newspapers

Intertribal Problems Stuck on Stupid

January 10, 2015 By gmoke

We are going into our fifth month of demonstrations and actions all over the USA about police violence and sanctioned summary judgment. Hearing, reading, seeing the news, it seems as if brutality, terror, and torture are breaking out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chicago, civil-rights, Constance Rice, Gandhian economics, gangs, Gary Slutkin, la, media, non-violence, peace, police, Tio Hardiman, violence

Corporate Profit Drive Squeezes Out New Bedford Standard-Times Editor

December 16, 2014 By thegreenmiles

Local newspapers provide a valuable public service that I want to support. But how many newsroom layoffs does it take to make subscription fees feel more like a corporate subsidy than a common good? Bob Unger, universally respected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: media, new-bedford

NB Standard Times “Centrism” on Immigration: Letting GOP Gridlock Win

November 14, 2014 By thegreenmiles

If President Obama wants to make things better for undocumented immigrants, the New Bedford Standard-Times editorial board says he should ... do nothing while Republicans throw a partisan hissy fit? The president has felt the pressure to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, congress, immigration, media

Fall River Herald News Lets Polluter Front Group Deny Climate Science

October 30, 2014 By thegreenmiles

Last week the Fall River Herald News and sister paper the Taunton Gazette published an op-ed column denying manmade carbon pollution causes global warming. I submitted the following letter to the editor in response: Tom Harris and Bob … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, environment, global-warming, media

Boston Herald Trolls With Racist Obama Cartoon

October 1, 2014 By thegreenmiles

The Boston Herald, the voice of old-school Boston racists, is in the national spotlight today for this overtly racist cartoon about President Obama and Secret Service breaches. The cartoonist is defending himself by claiming that, much like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, media, racism

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