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Tormenting Teddy

Republicans threaten Kennedy reign
After 32 years in the US Senate, Ted Kennedy remains a force to be reckoned with, both for his legendary family history and his considerable accomplishments.
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF  |  August 26, 2009
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Rolled

Where’s the outrage over media mistreatment at the RNC?
Where’s the outrage over media mistreatment at the RNC?
By ADAM REILLY  |  October 02, 2008
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Slime time

We already know about politicians’ capacity for coarse behavior. But how low can the press go?
Nasty presidential races are nothing new.
By ADAM REILLY  |  February 20, 2008
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The ProJo's brave new world

Will going super-local on the Web strengthen the paper?
The Providence Journal is turning to an unlikely source — high school football — for help.
By IAN DONNIS  |  December 05, 2007
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Fake-news vacuum

Why the Writers Guild strike could affect the presidential race
It’s easy to be flip about the deep implications of the Writers Guild of America strike, which is now stretching into its fourth week.
By ADAM REILLY  |  November 28, 2007
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This story blows

The bizarre battle over Cape  Wind
There’s a foul wind blowing off Cape Cod.
By ADAM REILLY  |  May 30, 2007
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Table manners

In blackjack experience teaches, intuition sustains
My first blackjack experience came as a newly minted college grad.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  April 29, 2007
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Rebirth of a salesman

The return of Russel Pergament
He’s going too fast.
By ADAM REILLY  |  April 25, 2007
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The WRKO shuffle

Sizing up the station’s extreme makeover
No Boston media institution is more unstable these days than WRKO Radio.
By ADAM REILLY  |  January 24, 2007
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Killer coke

Obama, Bush, and the warped politics of drug use. Plus, ConCon coverage falls short, and Finneran’s foes raise a fuss
If you follow presidential politics, you know that Barack Obama’s past use of illegal drugs is suddenly a topic of great interest.
By ADAM REILLY  |  January 10, 2007
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Top 20 of 2006

 ThePhoenix.com's 20 most popular stories of the year
Unsexy men, terrible lyrics, season finales, SuicideGirls, sex, MySpace, and sneakers. The stories you clicked on most in '06.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  December 29, 2006

Flashbacks: October 13, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Dan Peleschuk and Ian Sands.
By FLASHBACKS  |  October 11, 2006
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Reality TV meets the newsroom

Trailblazer Steve Smith brings newspaper transparency to a whole new level
Even in an era of buzzwords such as media “transparency” and “interactive dialogue” (between news consumers and news producers), what’s happening at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is pretty strange stuff.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  June 21, 2006
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Your ombuddy

Once the most thankless job in journalism, the lowly ombudsman is now poised to be a star
Part internal-affairs cop, part complaint department, American news ombudsmen are truly a unique breed.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  June 19, 2006
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The media’s worst nightmare?

Howard Cooper is quickly making a name for himself as the city’s go-to guy for libel
Many of those familiar with his work tend to see him as the real deal — a passionate, sincere, and surprisingly idealistic advocate who is no fun to face across the aisle.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  June 07, 2006
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Assembly-line Investigations

‘Team 5 Investigates’ is blurring the lines between investigative reporting and, well, just reporting
The May 24 “Team 5 Investigates” story had many of the elements of classic journalistic sleuthing.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  June 06, 2006
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Stop whining and do your job

The White House and the media are not supposed to get along, stupid
A president with a history of antipathy toward the media complains openly about the “knee-jerk liberal press.”
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  May 28, 2006
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Glossed over

The magazine racks are filled with dying publications — but why is the glossy’s forecast not nearly as gloomy as newsprint’s?
One sign of how the magazine business is doing these days is a three-month-old Web log called “Magazine Death Pool.”
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  May 17, 2006
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Liberty or Death

Pat Purcell’s sale of CNC adds a mysterious new player to the media market
“You bet we’re alive — and kicking!” declared the headline on Herald owner Pat Purcell’s feisty message to readers on Monday.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  May 11, 2006
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Phoenix's Jurkowitz to depart

Destination: Project for Excellence
Media critic Mark Jurkowitz will be leaving the paper on or around July 1 to become the associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism headquartered in Washington, DC.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  May 05, 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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Blue (-Eyed) Devils?

The perfect storm of race, class, and sex makes the alleged Duke rape tale perfect fodder for the ‘justice’-obsessed media  
Once the sensational Duke University rape case — with its irresistible brew of race, class, and sex — triggered the predictable media circus, an equally predictable chorus of earnest-sounding criticism began to roll in.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  April 26, 2006
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Won’t get fooled again

With reports of Iran-war drums beating, how will the media react this time around?  
Seymour Hersh’s April 17 New Yorker article, which reported that a “messianic” Bush White House was contemplating regime change and tactical nuclear strikes to pre-empt Iran’s bomb-building program, landed with its own explosive power last week.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  April 25, 2006

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Bad sports

Letters to the Boston editor: April 14, 2006
I agree with Mark Jurkowitz (“ Muckrakers in the Outfield ,” April 7) that there are mostly yes men reporting sports, but I’d focus my analysis differently.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 12, 2006
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Muckrakers in the outfield

It’s time for baseball — and all sports — to be covered just like any other multi-billion-dollar business  
Last week was an important moment in the history of American journalism.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  April 05, 2006

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High noon at the Herald

If Purcell sells off the suburbs, what will happen to his big-city tab?  
Pat Purcell’s speech last Friday at a UMass Boston conference on ethnic media was auspiciously timed.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  March 30, 2006
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Let it bleed

When a pretty Boston woman is murdered in New York, the Boston dailies go to war
The horrific New York murder of 24-year-old Imette St. Guillen pitted the city’s two major dailies against each other in ways that reflect the strengths and weaknesses, as well as the editorial philosophies, of the two rivals.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  March 22, 2006
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Numbing carnage

Once an upbeat hit, Bush’s Iraq show has jumped the shark
On the morning of March 8, viewers had their first sip of coffee to a grisly sight on the news shows: grainy video of roughly two-dozen dead Iraqis lined up in a makeshift morgue, many of them apparently bound and strangled.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  March 15, 2006

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