Mainstream Media
Is anybody else concerned about the implications of Projo.com being completely collapsed all day? I can’t recall that happening even to Podunk blogs in recent years, let alone a significant mainstream media Web site.
In response to my reservations about grand preening in celebration of a “counter protest” that exponentially outnumbered the mentally feeble Phelps family whom it targeted, commenter Chris offered the following: I approve of both the reporting, and the action. I like the idea that 1) our kids have learned to spot human junk, and react…
Randal Edgar has a head-shaking opening to his ostensibly objective report on the outcome in the matter of the Cranston Teamsters’ argument that 20% of healthcare actually means a set dollar amount: It has long been accepted that the terms of a labor contract continue after the agreement expires but a Superior Court judge placed…
It’s encouraging to see that figures most often noted for their irascibility against right-leaning politicians can find fault with the other side: Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the…
Bloggers have an awkward perspective when it comes to shield laws protecting journalists’ sources. The difficulty arises with the following statement from Channel 10 reporter Jim Taricani, as described by Projo columnist Ed Fitzpatrick: As he concluded his comments Thursday, Taricani said, “The Founding Fathers carved out a very special place for freedom of the…
Will Ricci filled the gap on his Facebook page, but it didn’t occur to me, yesterday, to try to get pictures of all of the speakers at the Gaspee Tea Party, as I focused instead on the people in the crowd and the message that they’re sending via their hand-made signs. (MikeinRI has photos up,…
Justin, how about the Daily Show with Jon Stewart instead of SNL? NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard concludes his post highlighting a segment of Comedy Central’s not-exactly-right-wing mock news show thusly. I guess it’s time for NBC and others in the media to understand that when your gushing and fawning for Obama is fodder for comedians, you…
Wow: EVAN THOMAS [editor of Newsweek]: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn’t felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We’re seen too often as the bad guys. And he, he has a very different job from … Reagan was all about…
Fully expecting scurrilous attacks that deliberately miss my point, I was going to put this one aside, but it nagged at me at periods throughout the day, as I constructed a client’s two-flight deck stairs, so here it is: Am I alone in finding there to be something discomfiting about the Providence Journal‘s making this…
What caught my eye about the Miss USA story that Marc mentioned earlier was this line from an unattributed Providence Journal “staff” report: Prejean created controversy when, during the live pageant broadcast, she gave her philosophy of marriage. Not “confronted.” Not even “caused.” “Created.” Out of the thin air of a perfectly benign question, Miss…