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Philly's Journalists Won't Return to 1989new

It wasn't difficult to see this coming: Brian Tierney's "Keep It Local" campaign to retain control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News apparently applies only to ownership -- not to the employees of those newspapers.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Joel Mathis  |  10-05-2009  |  Media

Listening to the Fringe at a July 4 Tea Party in Phillynew

It's getting so you can't tell regular Republican insanity from the lunatic fringe anymore. Take July 4, when a parade of local conservative luminaries gathered with 2,000 people at Independence Hall for a "tea party" devoted to protesting President Obama's tyrannical, socialist rule of unending taxation.

Philadelphia Weekly  |  Joel Mathis  |  07-13-2009  |  Commentary

Can Jim MacMillan's iPhone Save Journalism?new

MacMillan, who left the Daily News in September after 17 years, has transformed himself into a oneā€“man band of Philadelphia journalism.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Joel Mathis  |  01-13-2009  |  Media

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