Jay Fitzgerald has a great post on the Muslim-terrorism meme that’s being flogged by some on the right following the Fort Hood tragedy. He writes: Here’s a challenge to conservatives: What specifically would they do to prevent these types of a...

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Excellent guidance from noted First Amendment lawyer Robert Bertsche....

Sarah Wunsch, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts, offers further analysis of how the state’s anti-SLAPP law would modify libel law if journalist-activist Fredda Hollander wins her appeal, now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Co...

Ralph Ranalli of Beat the Press has an interview with Boston Globe feature writer Joanna Weiss on her impending move to the editorial and op-ed pages. Weiss tells Ranalli: I’ll still be writing about pop culture, but from a different direction. I th...

It’s not every day that I can claim to have inspired a nationally known media commentator through my Twitter feed. But Rachel Sklar begins her analysis of the election results by calling one of my tweets the “smartest thing I read last night o...

Freelance journalist Justin Rice has launched a site called BPSsports to cover athletics in the Boston Public Schools. Rice explains that one of his goals is “to provide an outlet for local college and high school students to gain valuable journalis...

New York Times columnist Gail Collins: “We have a dramatic saga story line brewing here, and I do not want to mess it up by pointing out that Obama’s party won the only two elections that actually had anything to do with the president’s agenda.&...

My piece for the Guardian on the Fake AP Stylebook has now been posted. Here is my earlier interview with the co-founders, Mark Hale and Ken Lowery....

As the late Tip O’Neill was fond of saying, all politics is local. The idea that Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia amount to some sort of repudiation of President Obama is just as silly as the notion that Obama’s endorsement was ...

At this point, it’s just depressing. Voters in Maine last night overturned their state’s same-sex-marriage law by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent. The very idea that we should have the right to vote on whether our neighbors are fully huma...

Peter Canellos In an apparent attempt to infuse the Boston Globe’s opinion pages with a pop-culture sensibility, editorial-page editor Peter Canellos has announced that feature writer Joanna Weiss will be moving to the editorial board and writing a ...

The Guardian has put together a package of commentary on the first anniversary of President Obama’s election. Mine is here....

Two weeks ago today, the Twitter feed Fake AP Stylebook was launched upon an unsuspecting planet. Journalists who had long labored under the tyranny of the Associated Press Stylebook know that they’re supposed to use 1950s-style postal abbreviations...

I’m watching the anti-SLAPP hearing here. Background on the case here. And that’s a wrap. The Supreme Judicial Court will consider the arguments it heard this morning and issue a decision at some later time. It strikes me that the questions we...

The myth lives on in the Boston Globe. Christine Legere writes today that the town of Middleborough “enthusiastically agreed to host what was to be the state’s first gambling house” two years ago. In fact, residents attending a chaotic outdo...

Fredda Hollander, an activist-journalist who will appear before the state’s Supreme Judicial Court on Monday, has given me permission to post the affidavit (pdf) I wrote for her at an earlier stage of her case. It’s a public document, but give...

Adam Gaffin has posted an excellent summary of an important press-freedom case that will be argued before the state’s Supreme Judicial Court on Monday. Fredda Hollander, an activist-journalist who once wrote for a local newspaper called the Regional...

Christopher Mayer I have no particular insight into Boston Globe publisher Steven Ainsley’s retirement announcement, or why senior vice president Christopher Mayer was chosen as his replacement. But I do think Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix gets ...

OK, one quick one, then I’m out of here. The Boston Herald today follows up its social-media story with more from Dave Wedge and Jessica Heslam and a column by Margery Eagan. In order to bolster her argument that Amy Derjue, spokeswoman for Boston C...