AltWeeklies Wire
Reality TV Meets the Newsroomnew
Even in an era of media "transparency" and "interactive dialogue," what's happening at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, is pretty strange stuff.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
06-22-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Stop Whining and Do Your Jobnew
The White House and the media are not supposed to get along, stupid.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
05-25-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Glossed Overnew
The magazine racks are filled with dying publications -- but why is the glossy's forecast not nearly as gloomy as newsprint's?
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
05-19-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Listing Forwardnew
Like anyone who works a specific beat, media critics acquire lots of impressions, opinions, and stray observations that never actually make it into print -- and yet they are worth musing over.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
05-04-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Blue (-Eyed) Devils?new
The perfect storm of race, class and sex makes the alleged Duke rape tale perfect fodder for the "Justice"-obsessed media.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
04-27-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Won't Get Fooled Againnew
With reports of Iran War drums beating, how will the media react this time around?
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
04-21-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Muckrakers in the Outfieldnew
It's time for baseball -- and all sports -- to be covered just like any other multi-billion dollar business.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
04-06-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Let It Bleednew
When a pretty Boston woman is murdered in New York, the Boston dailies go to war.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
03-28-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Citizen Oprahnew
Why America's most powerful celebrity should be more feared than loved.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
02-09-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Yahoo!’s One-man News Armynew
Kevin Sites was best known for igniting a major controversy when his camera captured a US Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah, but today he's reporting from Iraq for Yahoo!.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
01-30-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
Hostile Encountersnew
Bill O’Reilly is famous for attacking guests who dare disagree with him -- so why do liberals keep going on his show?
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
01-19-2006 |
Media
Globe-al Anxietynew
What will the shake-up at the Boston Globe mean for the paper, the editor, the remaining staff and the city itself?
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
01-12-2006 |
Media
Black and White and Bloody All Overnew
After being kicked to the curb since 9/11, journalists in 2005 began to fulfill their traditional watchdog role with a little more zeal. Whether that lasts is probably the big question of 2006.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
12-22-2005 |
Media
Tags: yearinreview2005
The Atlantic Goes Southnew
After 148 years in Boston, the magazine of "the American idea" dreamed up by Ralph Waldo Emerson, et al., has produced its final issue from home. Owner David Bradley is moving The Atlantic Monthly to Washington, D.C.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
12-15-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
From Watchdog to Lap Dognew
Bob Woodward’s "Plamegate" blunder showed the world what many knew for years: we need a bunch of new Bob Woodwards.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
12-01-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
