For the third time this week, I got in the car and the radio (tuned to WGBH-FM 89.7) was singing a song of signal-free static. The two earlier static spectaculars came between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. Today's 100% content free experience came … [Read more...]
Ralph Nader on One on One with Maria Hinojosa
The son of immigrants from Lebanon, Ralph Nader founded or organized more than a hundred civic organizations across the United States. Over the last five decades he fought to protect Americans and played a key role in the creation of … [Read more...]
A rough start to WGBH radio’s new local shows
I'm all for more locally-focused programming on our public radio stations. WBUR has pretty much decided that it's not worth investing in; the once-a-week "Radio Boston" is moderately interesting, but once a week doesn't cut it. … [Read more...]
Spot Deval!
Here is a Quicktime clip from a 1989 edition of WGBHs 10 O'Clock News Cast (1976-1991). The clip shows a younger John Kerry addressing The Consortium of Minority Business Enterprises on minority set-aside programs. Somewhere in this … [Read more...]
Greater Blogston
sco's favorite show, WGBH's "Greater Boston", now has a blog, doubtless because there wasn't enough to read here. So once you digest our meager offerings, trundle on over.Right now they're averaging the polls in the Gov's race, which makes … [Read more...]
“Greater Boston” press panelists belly-flop on Kos/TNR blogwars
Well, that was hideous. With the exception of Dan Kennedy, the sage media analysts of Greater Boston - - Callie Crosley, Joe Sciacca, and John Carroll -- completely botched their analyses of the feud between Markos Moulitsas (of Daily Kos) … [Read more...]
Debate tonight: Nothing new
Kimberly Atkins has the right idea: If you've seen any of the other "debates" on CBS4 or WB56, you probably don't need to see tonight's on Greater Boston, unless you wanna get totally hammahed.I'll say this: Tom Reilly is a talking points … [Read more...]
Tom Finneran: A helpful kind of guy (with poll!)
On Greater Boston tonight, former Speaker of the MA House and now lobbyist for the Massachusetts Biotech Council Tom Finneran said he sees lobbying as an "honorable profession", providing "information" for elected officials who really want … [Read more...]