Mainstream Media
An unsigned editorial in Saturday’s Projo had this to say about the coming transition to digitial television…The government is taking away the analog spectrum to boost wireless services (which are becoming ever more important) and for public-safety needs. That’s why the Feds (i.e., taxpayers) are even offering to help pay for those converter boxes. So…
Now why would Disney go and make the Narnia movies out of order? I understand why the film makers wouldn’t want to start with The Magician’s Nephew, which is the first book according to the storyline. C.S. Lewis, after all, didn’t write the book until after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I suppose…
Congratulations to RI Report founder Tom Shevlin on his new gig… The presidential candidates can run, but it will be hard for them to hide from the horde of citizen journalists tapped by MTV’s Choose or Lose ’08 to cover the race for the White House. A group of 51 local reporters — one from…
I’ve thought of myself as pretty well tuned into Rhode Island political trivia, but until I stumbled across this Weekly Standard article mentioning a “famous Rhode Island drawl”, I never realized that John McLaughlin – the McLaughlin of The McLaughlin Group — was a native Rhode Islander. Here’s the opening of his Rhode Island Heritage…
…then try to explain why NBC rejected it. More details available from the Powerline blog.
In the comments section of a recent post mentioning his book Rescuing Providence, after thanking Anchor Rising for the plug, Providence firefighter Michael Morse wrote…I can’t say I agree with a lot of your views, but they are always interesting and thought provoking.However, upon reading sections from his most recent Projo op-ed, like this one…Our…
Any local media watchers care to speculate on whether this announcement via CNN’s Money.com means anything significant for the future of the Providence Journal…Belo Corp. will present at the UBS 35th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York on Tuesday, December 4, at 9:00 a.m. EST, providing an update on the Company’s operations…
Projo sports columinst/general critic Bill Reynolds offers this capsule review in his weekly “for what’s it worth” column…Rescuing Providence, a new book by Providence firefighter Michael Morse, is an interesting look at the Providence they don’t put in the travel brochures, all told in a very readable, effective, descriptive style.
Even just the lead of the Providence Journal’s front-page reprint of this McClatchy Newspapers story deserves an LOL: With little to gain and much to lose, the [Democrat] party’s presidential hopefuls avoid highlighting their positions, which are more moderate than their GOP rivals. But David Lightman’s actual text gets even better (if one is judging…
A few weeks back, Justin observed that the single biggest factor retarding fiscal and economic reform in Rhode Island may be the “but what can we do?” attitude of learned helplessness prevalent in Rhode Island’s legislature and municipal councils. Members of the But-What-Can-We-Do Caucus profess that they are powerless to do anything but raise taxes…
