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Mooninite media mash-up

Praise and (mostly) blame for Boston’s Fourth Estate
Slowly, mercifully, the agony of Mooninite-gate is fading away.
By ADAM REILLY  |  February 07, 2007

Schoolyard bully

Letters to the Boston editor: December 29, 2006
Can you imagine the uproar if homeowners were suddenly unable to refinance their home with a different lender? Or worse, if they could not refinance at all?
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  December 27, 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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The strange dust-up over ‘Beat the Press’

  Do you love me?
In case you missed it — and you probably did — a very small segment of the Massachusetts media was aflame with controversy this week.
By ADAM REILLY  |  December 13, 2006
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Mihosed

Why aren’t Christy’s ads better?
The problem with gubernatorial candidate Christy Mihos’s television spots is, they’re not kinky enough.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  November 01, 2006
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Ask Spin Cycle

Campaign advice for the vote-lorn
Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of “Spin Cycle,” up to several letters have poured in during the past few days seeking our sage advice on all things electoral.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  October 25, 2006
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‘Sexy projects’

Brookline’s old-school tax tussle
While gubernatorial candidates Kerry Healey and Deval Patrick go at one another hammer and tongue on the television airwaves, there are hundreds of below-the-radar campaigns being waged town by town across Massachusetts.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  October 18, 2006
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Trail mix

Ads ’n’ ends from the media front
Could someone please get a temporary restraining order against Kerry Healey’s Deval-Patrick-loves-cop-killers TV spot?
By JOHN CARROLL  |  October 11, 2006

Primary choler

Gabrieli ad man whacks Globe
David Eichenbaum has no regrets about the ad campaign his Washington, DC, political media firm Struble Eichenbaum created for local entrepreneur Chris Gabrieli.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  October 04, 2006
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Debating pointers

Advice to local TV stations
Well, folks, Fox 25 certainly set the bar with its debate broadcast Monday night, don’t you think? So with that in mind, here are some helpful hints for the bake-offs to come. Blue Mass Group's anti-Healey ad (YouTube) Christy Mihos's Big Dig TV ad
By JOHN CARROLL  |  September 27, 2006
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Third-degree burns

Advocacy ads a factor in Governor’s race
Special-interest groups are the kibitzers of the political game, circling the table, looking at everyone’s cards, offering unwanted advice.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  September 20, 2006
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Debate and switch

As The Globe Turns On Reilly
By the end of last Thursday’s Democratic gubernatorial debate, it was Kaddish for Tom Reilly, at least according to everybody in the chin-strokerati (except the Boston Herald ’s Howie “Bleep Conventional Wisdom” Carr).
By JOHN CARROLL  |  September 13, 2006
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The First Annual Spotty Awards

Our prestigious award for standout achievement in political something or other
Say, those Emmy Awards last week were something else, eh?
By JOHN CARROLL  |  September 06, 2006
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Putting the ‘e’ in campaigns

The netroots get real in the Bay State, and the secret behind Joan Vennochi’s e-coup.
It’s becoming clear that there’s more to the political blogosphere than just blahg, blahg, blahg.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  August 30, 2006
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Plogging away

Plus, Romney’s small-town clips
When asked about the Internet, most political candidates will dutifully tell you that it’s the wave of the future, or the wave of the present, or the greatest thing since chocolate-chip bagels, or … zzzzzz … wake me when baseball’s post-season starts.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  August 23, 2006
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Grading the ads

Reilly, Healey, and Gabrieli
With just a month to go before primary day in Massachusetts, it’s a good time to issue midterm grades for the gubernatorial advertising campaigns.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  August 17, 2006
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Spin Cyle: WooTube

Pols get dirty with video
While the moneybags candidates in this fall’s statewide races (C’mon down, Kerry Healey and Chris Gabrieli!) pump millions into television advertising, some less well-heeled campaigns have turned to YouTube.com, the free lunch of video clips. John Bonifaz's "Where's Galvin?" clip (YouTube) "Wedding Bell Blues: Mitt Romney Edition" (YouTube)
By JOHN CARROLL  |  August 15, 2006
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Global Murder

Plus, can Healey speak for herself?
Forget the Greens and Libertarians. It’s the Couch-Potato Party that will be the next alternative force in Massachusetts politics.
By JOHN CARROLL  |  August 03, 2006
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Listing forward

Sometimes a media critic just wants to herd a few cats
Like anyone who works a specific beat — sportswriters and political writers come to mind — media critics acquire lots of impressions, opinions, and stray observations that never actually make it into print, and yet they are worth musing over.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  May 03, 2006
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Hostile encounters

Bill O’Reilly is famous for attacking guests who dare disagree with him. So why do liberals keep going on his show?  
Many well-intentioned guests simply end up befuddled and battered after entering a world in which Bill O’Reilly shrewdly selects his targets and then carpet-bombs them.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  January 19, 2006
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Armory arts center

South Portland's vacant landmark could be reborn as a cultural icon
A 25,000-square-foot building sits on just shy of three acres at the foot of the south end of the Casco Bay Bridge. Vacant since 1996, the former South Portland armory remains in limbo. Its owner, the moribund Museum of Glass and Ceramics, declared bankruptcy last year, before ever moving in.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  January 17, 2006

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