Mainstream Media
Hey, you. The one who was part of the 75% percent of Rhode Islanders who said they approve of Governor Carcieri’s E-verify Executive Order (and presumably the E-verify bill that just got killed by Senator Theresa Paiva-Weed). Guess what? The Journal’s Steve Peoples and/or Cynthia Needham think you were just confused…or something…by the question (the…
Bob Kerr tries to make it seem as if he wants more news coverage of the various war efforts in which the United States is currently engaged: … this week, we learn there is even less effort than before to keep the wars, especially the war in Iraq, in front of the people who pay…
Via Dan Yorke, the New York Post (and MSNBC confirms) that “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert died of a heart attack today. MORE: Needless to say, this is simply a shock, especially to those of us tuned into the world of politics and punditry. No one can dispute that Russert was one of, if…
I tried to excerpt down Jim Baron‘s weekly column in today’s Woonsocket Call, but couldn’t find much to cut out. It’s worth fighting through the lack of proper spacing between paragraphs to read the whole thing.
Methinks there’s a missing “my” in Karen Lee Ziner’s “Remarks raise concern” piece on the front page of yesterday’s Local News section: A nonprofit group whose board members include First Lady Sue Carcieri asserts that nearly 45 percent of all immigrants in Rhode Island — legal and illegal — lack high school diplomas and “this…
I’m not in the least disputing the Martins’ relevancy as a representative human interest topic (and my family would certainly not be so comfortable broadcasting personal financial information). Still, the Providence Journal’s front-page profile of the family makes me curious about the genesis of the report. Did Journal Staff Writer Lynn Arditi advertise online for…
No one can be sure if Pawtucket’s new weekly newspaper, All Pawtucket All The Time, will make it (h/t Phillipe and Jorge), but APATT will be starting out with one advantage that its daily competitor, the Pawtucket Times has never been able to achieve — they’ve figured out how to insert space between paragraphs in…
Over the weekend, the ProJo ran a NY Times piece that divulged that (gasp) the Pentagon squired around ex-military types–some even with ties to military contractors–in an attempt to get favorable press about the Iraq War. Stunning, no? Both Max Boot and John Podhoretz have a say, with Podhoretz offering up an inside-baseball reason as…
This is odd. My morning blogging session was disrupted by the discovery that the story at the very top of the Providence Journal’s front page, today, “Study finds gaps growing in R.I. between haves and have-nots,” doesn’t appear to be available online. Well, I’ve got to go to work, but if experience is any guide,…
The Providence Journal’s Steve Peoples provides another scrapbook entry for the file illustrating how average folk around her develop such a skewed understanding of the state’s operation: Governor Carcieri has asked the state’s highest court to strike down a law passed last year that he says threatens to paralyze Rhode Island government by blocking his…
