You really gotta feel for the Globe reporter who had to wait while a security guard confirmed he was to be allowed into last night's debate at Channel 25. Must've been rough.
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By adamg - 9/26/06 - 8:04 pm
Emily Rooney of WGBH's Greater Boston blogs her reaction to Fox's handling of the debate:
I'm not big on labeling new organizations with a political ideology but it would be hard to convince me there was no agenda at the FOX25 Monday night event. ...
By adamg - 9/26/06 - 5:39 pm
Hah, hah, sure was cute to see Channel 25 pick "average voter" Shonda Schilling of Medfield to ask a question during last night's debate, wasn't it? Sure, her husband's a big Republican from way back, no bias there, nope, but even better, turns out Shonda's not registered to vote in Massachusetts.
Blue Mass. Group, meanwhile, discovers something fishy about "average voter" and famous restaurant owner Jasper White - seems he's a Healey backer.
By adamg - 9/26/06 - 11:15 am
Mike Mennonno's put back up an edited version of his deconstruction of a Weekly Dig feature on good places at which to get smashed, the post in which he concludes Dig Editor Joe Keohane is getting too old for that sort of thing:
By adamg - 9/25/06 - 6:19 pm
An eagle-eyed tblade went to Channel 25's Web site earlier today to get info about tonight's debate. He pulled up an interview with the Herald's Kimberly Atkins, chatting from in front of the State House. Toward the end, he noticed this bearded guy trying to get on camera. Spare Change Guy!
By adamg - 9/22/06 - 8:35 am
David Scott notes the irony: The almost entirely white Globe sports department offers up a detailed look at the lack of diversity among college coaches.
By adamg - 9/21/06 - 1:40 pm
Dan Kennedy fact-checks Scott Allen Miller:
... Scott Allen Miller is raising a ruckus because "taxpayers" several years ago refurbished the landmark Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. Citgo, you see, is owned by the Venezuelan government, and Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, went off on President Bush yesterday.
< br />Trouble is, Miller was wrong -- in fact, Citgo refurbished the sign at its own expense, replacing the tubes with LEDs. ...
By adamg - 9/19/06 - 3:56 pm
Channel 4 will Webcast election results with Jack Williams and a panel of local reporters and bloggers. Blue Mass. Group and Hub Politics will represent. Starts at 8 p.m.
By emily sweeney - 9/18/06 - 9:48 pm
I spent the weekend chasing gubernatorial candidates with my camcorder.....produced three video clips....and then I posted them on a video blog that's linked to the Globe's politics page.
I asked the candidates about their favorite music...and I asked Chris Gabrieli about the first concert he attended.....(it turns out his first show was Elvis Costello at the Orpheum in 1978).
There are three clips so far - one each for Reilly, Gabrieli, and Patrick - and they run about five minutes long. It's worth a look!
- Emily Sweeney
By adamg - 9/18/06 - 2:23 pm
Bruce Allen and his readers count 11 errors in a single paragraph in Nick Cafardo's column on David Murphy today:
... What is going on over there? Is it that hard to check a few facts? Nick is trying to compare Murphy to other players drafted in his class, and just totally messed it up. ...
By adamg - 9/16/06 - 8:39 am
David Scott notices that one of the first effects of Gatehouse Media's takeover of the old CNC papers (and the Quincy Patriot-Ledger and Brockton Enterprise) is consolidation of sports coverage - basically, get rid of all those redundant reporters and columnists cluttering up all those different papers. Could news coverage be next?
By adamg - 9/15/06 - 9:29 pm
Earlier, I linked to an article in the Globe today about giant-sized rats in the Back Bay.
By adamg - 9/15/06 - 3:57 pm
Because WLVI is just too perfect. In any case:
Dan Kennedy ponders the growing ownership concentration among local TV stations:
... The Boston TV market isn't going to become any less local -- but it is about to get more concentrated and less diverse. That's bad news you're not likely to see on 7 or 56. ...
Great. That's just what we need. More of the same, frets Steve Garfield, who wants Channel 38 to bring back Ask the Manager.
By adamg - 9/14/06 - 9:52 pm
The owner of Channel 7 is buying Channel 56. First step, of course, is to lay off more than 100 employees. Second: Can the 10 o'clock news (but don't worry - you'll be able to watch Channel 7 news at 10 on 56).
By donwarnersaklad - 9/14/06 - 9:56 am
Fox Television Stations Inc.
25 Fox Drive
Dedham Massachusetts 02027
http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/C...
http://bostonradio.org/stations/6463.html
Please do more that addresses the problems of
the less enfranchised in our communities!
By adamg - 9/13/06 - 7:44 pm
The Concerned Members of the UMass Boston College of Public and Community Service is seeking Globe coverage of some issue. You can read all about it, along with some statistics they covered on how the Globe covers a large college within walking distance of its newsroom as compared to private colleges in the area:
By adamg - 9/12/06 - 12:58 pm
Much gnashing of teeth among the local blogocracy over the recent gubernatorial endorsements of the two local dailies - Globe for Patrick and Herald for Reilly:
By adamg - 9/9/06 - 12:06 pm
John Daley smacks the Globe for reporting on the controversy surrounding the source of that leaked Marie St. Fleur memo even as it admits in passing that it knows who gave it the document:
By John Guilfoil - 9/8/06 - 1:35 pm
Money is the driving power in media. Fox is driven by money but their drive is more visible because they stand alone on the right side of the spectrum. This article is less about the documentary, Outfoxed, than a commentary about modern media and politics.
Bear with me as I've written a ton of soft features lately. Here's something to wake up the politicos.
Somewhere, towards the end perhaps, this will be relevant to public relations.
Outfoxed, a 2004 documentary by Robert Greenwald, tries to show the dangers of corporate control over the media by citing commonly right-of-center news source, Fox. Greenwald and a group of volunteers monitored Fox News Channel 24 hours per day for several months looking for “conservative bias†in its news reporting. The resulting film shows that Fox is indeed a conservative-leaning media outlet and corporately controlled
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