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WTKK fires Severin
Jay Severin In what I’m sure will be a surprise to no one, Greater Media has announced that WTKK Radio (96.9 FM) talk-show host Jay Severin has been fired. Boston Globe story here; Boston Herald story...
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Live-blogging tonight’s debate
If you’re interested — and even if you’re not — I’ll be live-blogging tonight’s Republican presidential debate, which begins at 9 p.m. on the Fox News Channel. My apologies to those who subscribe to...
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Three quick thoughts about the Republican race
Flag of the Cayman Islands Three quick observations about the state of the Republican presidential campaign: • It’s been a very bad week for Mitt Romney. First came his peevish debate performance...
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Mitt Romney, the inevitable and unelectable man
Mitt Romney It’s only another poll, but today’s news from Public Policy Polling that Rick Santorum has jumped out to a 38 percent to 23 percent lead over Mitt Romney prompts me ponder the fate of our...
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Rory O’Connor to read from his new book
Backscratching Day festivities continue with my interview at thephoenix.com with old friend Rory O’Connor. The occasion is O’Connor’s excellent new book, “Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social...
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Media Nation’s top 10 posts of 2012
Work-force reductions at The Boston Globe. The end of WFNX as an over-the-air radio station. “Local” news from the Philippines. Possible bankruptcy at GateHouse Media. These were a few of the top 10...
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Edward Snowden and the peril facing journalism
Edward Snowden This commentary was published earlier at The Huffington Post. The editors of The New York Times appear to have forgotten an important principle: the First Amendment is for all of us, and...
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Lara Logan’s fair and balanced future
I give it six months before Lara Logan is hosting a talk show on Fox News and whining that she was done in by liberals. (See this New York Times report.)
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The hazards of granting anonymity, Part Infinity
I’ll leave it to my friend John Carroll to analyze the dust-up between the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald over whether former senator Scott Brown is or isn’t still working for Fox News. (Short...
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Flashback: Emily Rooney and public broadcasting in 1997
On Feb. 6, 1997, just after the debut of “Greater Boston” on WGBH-TV (Channel 2), I wrote an article for The Boston Phoenix on the state of the city’s two major public broadcasters, WGBH and WBUR. It...
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Brown and his new Fox friends fall for a sprinkle of satire
Scott Brown is off to a fine start at his new gig with “Fox and Friends.” It’s not even New Year’s, and the former Massachusetts senator (or whoever is handling his Twitter account) is tweeting...
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Obama’s State of the Union drives conservatives crazy
President Obama delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Photo (cc) by NASA HQ. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. There’s plenty of fulminating in conservative media circles today...
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How social media contribute to ‘remote-control terrorism’
By Bill Kirtz NEW YORK — Tracking “remote control terrorism,” showing climate change’s impact and following readers’ shifts to mobile devices were panel highlights at last weekend’s Columbia Journalism...
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Why Brian Williams’ return will be a disaster for NBC News
Brian Williams I really don’t understand why the folks at NBC News think serial fabricator Brian Williams can be rehabilitated. CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that Williams’ second act could be announced...
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A good night for Bush and a bad one for Trump
I hadn’t expected to watch Thursday night’s Republican debate. But it turned out to be available on my flight to San Fransciso, my credit card was twitching in my hand, and so… For what it’s worth, I...
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Trump did not say the 14th Amendment is unconstitutional
Chinese immigrants in Oregon. Birthright citizenship dates to 1898, when the Supreme Court cited the 14th Amendment in overturning a California law. Photo published by The Oregonian, courtesy of the...
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Peering into the post-Roger Ailes future of Fox News
Roger Ailes in 2013. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Roger Ailes is out at Fox News. The media tycoon resigned on Thursday, just two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit alleging...
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The war against ‘fake news’ is over. So what’s next in restoring media...
Rush Limbaugh. Photo (cc) 2010 by Gage Skidmore. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. A little over a month ago I wrote that if we tried to expand the definition of “fake news” beyond for-profit clickfarms,...
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Antifa is the right’s new bogeyman
Well put by The Boston Globe editorial page: Saturday put the lie to a common whine of the so-called alt right — the loose movement of anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and freelance bigots...
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Up with Hannity: Analyzing Kavanaugh with Trump’s most vociferous defender
Sean Hannity. Photo (cc) 2015 by Gage Skidmore. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. Monday was a big day for Sean Hannity, the conspiracy-minded Fox News Channel host. After all, it’s not every day...
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