Mainstream Media

Some have bemoaned the lack of positive media coverage of the comparatively strong U.S. economy over the past few years. Maybe there’s a reason. In a review of -30-: The Collapse of the Great American Newspaper edited by Charles M. Madigan, John Saul notes: From article to article, there is an echo of depressing statistics…

Don Imus will return to the radio airwaves. Embattled radio jock Don Imus is close to inking a multimillion-dollar deal to return to radio with Citadel Broadcasting, owner of ABC Radio Networks. The deal, expected to be finalized this week, would put Imus back on the air Dec. 3 on WABC-AM in New York City,…

Last month, Carroll Andrew Morse noted the controversial Opus cartoon, which the Providence Journal ran but many newspapers, including the Washington Post, did not. In today’s classic Bloom County cartoon on Yahoo News, Berke Breathed seems to have presaged the incident sparked by his own cartoon.

Watch as some MSNBC guy named David Schuster (perhaps a misspelling of “shyster”) ambushes U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R, Tennessee) with a request that she name the last person in her district killed in Iraq. I find the following to be the despicable aspect of his barrage, because it traps the interviewee with the usual…

A note from Patrick Murray expressing dissatisfaction with my post about the first two parts of John Mulligan’s Providence Journal series about him led me to take another look at what I’d written. My title was certainly too strong; the use of the word “sinister” was too suggestive of conscious action. My knee-jerk reaction was…

There’s something sinister about the timing of the Providence Journal’s five-part series about Corporal Patrick Murray. A production this large was most definitely a long time in the making, but issuing part one this week makes it resonate as a response to General Petraeus, and its execution reinforces the impression. Murray certainly deserves to have…

I know it’s possible to develop overly sensitive rabbit-ears over stuff like this, but it is interesting to note that when the reporters at the Projo mistakenly thought that Coventry Town Councilman Anthony Colaluca was a Republican, his party was mentioned in their coverage of his drunk-driving arrest. But now, after the Projo‘s news department…

Ian Donnis of the Providence Phoenix’s Not-for-Nothing blog has obtained the WPRO lineup card that includes former Providence Mayor and the recently released-from-prison Buddy Cianci as the DT (“designated talker”)… Each weekday morning, starting at 5, Bill Haberman will anchor WPRO’s First News. John DePetro and the WPRO Morning News will follow from 6 a.m.…

The Projo news department got Coventry Town Councilman Anthony Colaluca’s party correct when he won his 2006 election…In [Coventry Town Council District 2], incumbent Republican Greg Laboissonniere was ousted by a political neophyte, Democrat Anthony Colaluca, 23, by a close margin,…but skipped over any fact-checking or consulting of their own archives when reporting on his…