Mainstream Media
I wonder if Melissa’s Coon son looked like Pres. Obama. That’s the 13-year-old Kansas City boy who may have been set on fire because “You get what you deserve, white boy.” As Robert Wargas notes, the story appears not to rate national attention in the eyes of the national media. Wargas’s post, linked by Instapundit,…
I started this as a comment to Monique’s post, but then decided to move it up. I bet with my wife yesterday that the ProJo’s paywall will only accelerate the decline. The ProJo likes to say “But the NY Times did it” but that’s like me trying to hit a baseball like Kevin Youkilis and…
… so the ProJo itself announced earlier today. Starting on Tuesday, The Providence Journal will begin charging some subscribers for access to the newspaper’s digital editions. I came across the announcement just now while browsing Rhode Island news. But readers of “On Politics” with Ian Donnis and Scott MacKay would have learned about it three…
Under my post and to cheers from MSteven and Joe Bernstein, Warrington Faust points to Howie Carr’s column in Friday’s Boston Herald. I was pondering this the other night during the State of the Union address. Did you know that our elite military units like the Navy SEALs are now examples of America at its…
Last August I took ProJo columnist Froma Harrop to task for being hypocritical because she called Tea Partiers “terrorists” while at the same time being the Chair of the National Conference of Editorial Writers that oversees the Civility Project. Now, as Ted Nesi posts, the Daily Show tries to square the circle with comedic results.…
Two aspects of this Monday editorial in the Providence Journal, lauding Central Falls Superintendent Fran Gallo for progress in her school district are interesting. For one, multiple Projo columnists have compared Democrat General Treasurer Gina Raimondo favorable with Republican reformers in other states, like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ohio Governor John Kasick, on the…
In a post illustrating why he’s risen so quickly to the status of “must read” and why it’s so crucial to have intellectually curious people making their full-time livings investigating state-level politics and government, Ted Nesi responds to my incredulity at everybody’s willingness to accept the pension reform narrative. This is the most important paragraph…
In his Sunday Providence Journal column, Ed Fitzpatrick reviews the passage of pension reform, and I have to say that he contributes to my surreal feeling of different realities based on different narratives: Keep in mind that this isn’t Texas: This happened in Rhode Island, a deep-blue state where unions are considered a legendary force…
Major H/T to Ian Donnis for spotting and highlighting this illuminating Dan Kennedy post about the redesign of the ProJo’s website. … the Providence Journal unveiled its new website — a prelude to its long-promised (or long-threatened) paywall. … But this is not a digital strategy — it’s a print strategy, built on the idea…
After a decade of blogging, the hunt for mainstream media bias gives me about the same thrill as finding three-leaf clovers. Even so, the Providence Journal’s front page declaration in its Sunday edition took me back a bit: “The voice of the masses”? Since Sunday, multiple polls have emerged suggesting that it just ain’t so.…