I’ll have more to say on this, but for those who complain about the Boston Globe, just be glad the Philly Inquirer isn’t your regional paper. Talk about skimpy. The special Election 06 section promises in big, bold letters, “MORE THAN THREE PAGES OF COVERAGE INSIDE.” And this from a paper with a far bigger […]
I’m an unusual sort: I’m under the age of 50 and I watch local TV newscasts. A lot. I can’t fully say way. Part of it is just what TV scholars call “flow,” the sheer rhythm of the broadcast schedule and its amenability to my own life schedule, getting ready for work in the morning, […]
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Globe’s list of most emailed stories is just how many stories are emailed to someone else by somebody. Lots were emailed just once, including such muffin-chokers as “National Group opposed changed in Dartmouth Alumni Group.”
More maddening lifestyle reporting in the New York Times Style pages. I mean, there’s some interesting points there (changing demographics and culture of fitness clubs). But I can’t help but feel like the whole thrust of the piece is to argue that things today aren’t like they were in that movie.
Dan and Dan weigh in on the comment-or-not-to-comment issue.
Let me propose a corrolary… it’s linking rather than opening to comments that makes a real blog. Rather than two-way communication, what blogging does most of the time is lateral conversation. It’s the lack of linking - not to other blogs, not even to news sources outside […]
Agreed. It’s the not the comments or lack thereof that distinguishes a real blog from the proliferation of web content that newspapers are selling as “blogs.” But there does seem to be something stilted and artificial about a number of the Globe’s blogs (or the Times’, as Matt Yglesias points out), and a little more […]
This morning, true to form, Katie Couric called him a stud.
I’m wondering if Wallace’s net effect on society was a positive one. On one hand, he was a skilled and savvy journalist who was able to put out some great stories. On the other hand, he has done more than probably anyother person to […]
A couple of larger media stories:
Sure, the Herald’s newscaster photo stunt is a little gimmicky, but it’s also a clever way at illustrating a serious issue that in another presentation (say, chock full of Nielsen research numbers) would make readers’ eyes gloss over. Of course, there are three reasons young people don’t watch the network, […]
How quickly the Globe taps into Citizen Kane-like narratives of man dwarfed by his failed ambitions.
Source: Boston Globe
At first it was even difficult to make out what exactly the larger-than-life shadows were, or whether they were in the foreground or the background.
It’s not my intention to make this blog Jon Keller Watch, but this week’s interview with Marty Meehan was just too rich. On the Alito hearings, he asks:
Yet again, Democrats wound up taking legitimate policy differences…and kind of squandering the argument in overheated rhetoric that tried to paint the other side as extreme — a […]
If I may continue with the media criticism vein, a recent Jon Keller feature on Romney’s State of the Commonwealth address was both a valorous attempt to dig deeper to explore the main policy issues facing the Legislature and a sign of what’s lacking in local news’ political beat. In his interview with Craig Sandler […]
Since Brad DeLong always has smart things to say, it’s no surprise that he’s on a roll lately in his criticism of the print media, particularly the Washington Post…. on Joe Klein’s shifting of conventional wisdom when it suits his bashing of "liberal Democrats"…. on a lack of knowledge about foreign affairs… on the silly […]
I know: sports are a foreign language to me, and I particularly don’t comprehend sports journalism. But Mark Jurkowitz, in responding to irate local sports bloggers calling for the head of Globe writer Ron Borges, brings up an interesting point only to stop halfway there.
In some ways, this episode is being framed as a […]
To be a metrosexual, don’t you actually have to be straight?
In the middle of Mark Jurkowitz’s meta-story on the Metro, the free daily newspaper, there’s this bit:
Anybody who takes public transportation in Boston will see that the tabloid of choice for straphangers these days is the Metro. And with the Herald having recently embarked on a series of major cuts and Purcell acknowledging that the […]