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Burn, baby, burn

The Olympics, zipper-gate, stimulus money, and why Coakley must investigate City Hall
The Phoenix opposed President Barack Obama's efforts to help Chicago win the 2016 Summer Olympics on the grounds that doing business with the International Olympic Committee is always bad news for the host community.
By EDITORIAL  |  October 07, 2009
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The end of the affair?

Mitt Romney's right-wing-media problem. Plus, Michael Bloomberg's blind spot.
During Mitt Romney's failed bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, he demonstrated a potent knack for wooing the conservative commentariat.
By ADAM REILLY  |  August 27, 2009
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Mr. Respectable

What's behind Rupert Murdoch's paid-content push? Plus, the ambitions of BoMag's new editor.
Last Wednesday, oft-vilified media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corp. — parent company of (among others) the Times of London, the New York Post , and Fox News — will soon begin charging readers for access to all its news sites.
By ADAM REILLY  |  August 12, 2009
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Sarah Palin, Inc.

The biggest brand name in conservative politics is about to enter the burgeoning right-wing marketplace — and she's perfect for it. Ka-ching!
Confused commenters have no clue as to the opportunities that await Palin — because few understand the extraordinary, multi-billion-dollar marketplace that has developed for movement conservatives.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  July 17, 2009
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Dailies go Darwin

Reports of newspapers' death are exaggerated — but after the changes coming in 2009, will we still recognize them?
If you're a tree, you're probably feeling pretty good right now.
By ADAM REILLY  |  January 29, 2009
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Fourth-estate follies!

Remembering the year in media malfeasance
Granted, other years have had flashier media embarrassments (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass), but that doesn't mean that 2008 lacked for media misdeeds.
By ADAM REILLY  |  December 24, 2008
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The Fox and the Wolff

How did a controversial media reporter get total access to the most — and perhaps most  — newspaper man in the world? He just asked.
No point in looking for an explanation or asking "why" something was said or done; Murdoch has no demonstrated ability to do so.
By DANIEL MCCARTHY  |  December 18, 2008
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The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 05, 2008
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Mile-high schlub

We recall the 10 things we miss most from the Golden Age of Air Travel
Look your children in the eye, globetrotter, and tell them the truth: the Golden Age of Air Travel is over.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 21, 2008
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Dance, Monkey: Robert Schimmel

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week's victim...
What would really be great would be if, at the end of the show, everyone was dead, except one comic, who is literally the last one standing. He wins.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  May 06, 2008

Bay Area beatdown

The soap-operatic significance of the Bay Guardian–Village Voice Media battle
These are grimly predictable days in the newspaper business.
By ADAM REILLY  |  March 11, 2008
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See no evil

What’s on the videotape Dan Conley won’t make public? Plus, winners in the Times ’ McCain mess.
An intriguing battle pitting government against the press is currently percolating on the North Shore and here in Boston.
By ADAM REILLY  |  February 27, 2008
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The Kristol method

Why is a Murdoch man working for the competition ?
Journalistic atrocity or savvy hire?
By ADAM REILLY  |  January 09, 2008

Smooth sailing

Unlike ’99, Guild and management are poised for new contract
With the current Guild contract due to expire at the end of this month, union officials believe that a new three-year pact will be settled imminently.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 05, 2007
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Southern discomfort

Anti-press overreach in the Sun Belt. Plus, the strange resilience of Page Six editor Richard Johnson
A pair of recent developments in the Sun Belt serves as a useful reminder that antagonism between government and the press can get a whole lot nastier.
By ADAM REILLY  |  October 26, 2007

Murdoch mulls Hub's Herald

Don't Quote Me
This article originally appeared in the October 26, 1982 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DAVE O'BRIAN  |  October 25, 2007
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Highway robbery

Is Internet populism destined for corporate ruin?
Not long ago, the path by which the recent Justice Department scandal traveled from tidbit to tsunami would have been seen as an exotic trip through an unknown land.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  October 04, 2007
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While you were out . . .

Yes, stuff happened in Boston during your summer break. But we’ve got it covered.
When you’re a student, it can seem as if reality just freezes when you leave town for the summer.
By ADAM REILLY  |  September 04, 2007
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The Journal wants it both ways on scrutiny of the media

As the ProJo turns
There was a bit of unintended irony in the Providence Journal ’s publication Monday of Sydney Schanberg’s spot-on op-ed piece about Rupert Murdoch.
By IAN DONNIS  |  August 15, 2007
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When Rupert came to Boston

Revisiting the lessons of Murdoch’s Herald
Just how badly will Rupert Murdoch screw up the Wall Street Journal ?
By ADAM REILLY  |  August 08, 2007
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Dead white females

From Fall Out Boy to One Night in Paris , modern pop culture is what it is today thanks to 10 long-expired ladies
Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?
By SHARON STEEL  |  August 08, 2007

Little Papeet can't jump

Octogenarian rap enthusiast roils Roger Williams University
L’affaire Papitto is one of those stories so stupid and ridiculous that no one could have made it up.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 18, 2007
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Leftward ho!

How liberal can the Herald’s editorial page get?
The Daily Worker has nothing to fear — yet.
By ADAM REILLY  |  June 06, 2007
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Meet the new Wingo?

Department of Nostalgia
Earlier this month, the free commuter daily BostonNow unveiled its $1,000 Name Contest and commenced hyping it in earnest.
By ADAM REILLY  |  May 23, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 10-1

These guys couldn't turn on a radio
These guys couldn't turn on a radio
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The new tastemakers

Does Pandora know you better than you do?
It’s a cliché by now, but the Internet allows you to be whomever you want to be.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  January 31, 2007
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Abstinence-only proponents need to get real

Everyone’s doing it
Although Heritage of Rhode Island’s “Right Time, Right Place” abstinence-based curriculum includes sections on personal values, the overall message is that teenage sexuality is always a negative behavior.
By GLORIA-JEAN MASCIAROTTE  |  December 27, 2006
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You and your tech-chic

 As of 2006, new media isn’t just for geeks anymore
You must’ve already heard that you were named Time magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year.
By CAMILLE DODERO  |  December 20, 2006
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The Year of living strangely

A year in media
So let’s see if we have this straight.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  December 20, 2006
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Tabloid dreams

Can Kevin Convey rescue the Herald ?
These are dark days in the newspaper business as a whole, but things are especially grim over at Herald Square.
By ADAM REILLY  |  November 30, 2006

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