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Sarah Palin and Boston city councilor Chuck Turner probably don't agree on much, but they're definitely united in their low regard for the Fourth Estate. At a press conference this afternoon on City Hall Plaza, Turner--who was recently arrested...
It's hard to imagine a more service-y Globe story on the Red Sox than today's front-page piece , which describes the Sox's decision to freeze ticket prices. Consider: Wall Street is panicking, businesses are collapsing, home foreclosures have...
Today's subject: new media! Like Romney spokesguy Eric Fehrnstrom and pretty much every sportswriter over forty, Sarah Palin isn't a big fan of blogs. Or, more precisely: she's not a big fan of "those bloggers in their parents' basement...
When last we left John McCain's running mate, she was accusing the media of violating her First Amendment rights . Maybe it's the relief of getting to the end of the campaign, but today, Sarah Palin is in a more conciliatory mood today. From her...
Here's LA Times political blogger (and former Laura Bush press secretary!) Andrew Malcolm arguing that the press isn't paying enough attention to nastiness among opponents of John McCain and Sarah Palin: As a growing number of political bloggers...
It seems that John McCain's brand-new stump speech actually leans heavily on an old McCain argument--namely, that the opposition includes both Barack Obama AND that pesky Fourth Estate : Let me give you the state of the race today. We have 22 days...
In a speech delivered last month at Ithaca College and newly published at Alternet , the Talking Points Memo founder makes a compelling case that independent/alternative media can get at the truth more effectively than big organizations like CNN, which...
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This week's Phoenix included a short excerpt of a Q-and-A I did with Rory O'Connor, the media critic and author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio . Here--finally!--is a full transcript of my chat with O'Connor, who recently returned...
In which I ponder the pluses and minuses of the press's new pet technology.
Lipstick-gate is currently the top item on Google News . But if you look for the full quote that triggered it, you won't get it from Fox's latest write-up, or the Times's , or the Wall Street Journal's , or numerous others. This is a shame...
Therein, I suggest that the answer is yes --and that the backlash will be decisive on Election Day.
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