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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (State Gun Laws Edition)
Wednesday’s New York Times called the roll of State Gun Laws Enacted in the Year Since Newtown. Nutshell version: Twenty-nine laws loosened concealed carry laws; none tightened them. Twenty-three laws tightened background checks and mental health reporting; three loosened … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Invisible Child Edition II)
Andrea Elliott’s New York Times Invisible Child series (photographs by Ruth Fremson) gets more heartbreaking by the day as it chronicles the life of a family consigned to a hellish homeless shelter in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Wednesday’s chapter reads like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Elliott, Auburn Family Residence, Brooklyn, Chanel, Dasani, Fort Greene, Gnarly Vines, Invisible Child, New York Times, Ruth Fremson
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Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Reform Government Surveillance’ Ad?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I don’t read the New York Times much (I’m a Washington Post kind of guy), but I happened upon Monday’s edition and here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acting Surgeon General, Amazon, AOL, Apple, Ask Dr. Ads, Boris D. Lushniak, Facebook, Google, Internet, Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mom 'n' Pop-Up site, Murderers' Row, New York Times, Pres. Obama, Reform Government Surveillance, Silicon Valley, Twitter, Washington Post, Yahoo
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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Invisible Child Edition)
Read this New York Times piece and weep for the 22,000 homeless children in NYC, especially Dasani. It’s a totally heartbreaking story stretching over four full pages of Monday’s Times. Outgoing New York Mayor Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill de Blasio, Dasani, Invisible Child, Michael Bloomberg, New York homeless children, New York Times
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Dead Blogging Andy Warhol At The Rose Art Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University the other day to catch Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography (through December 15) and, say, it was . . . interesting. From the Rose website: … Continue reading
Downtown Scotty Brown Moves To Wall Street (Journal)
The peripatetic Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere) has taken his Hamlet, New Hampshire act to the Big Town. From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Former Senator Weighs a Race Next Door Former Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts likes to joke that … Continue reading
Did NYT Public Editor Just Endorse Pay-for-Play?
In her New York Times column today, Public Editor Margaret Sullivan takes on The Thorny Challenge of Covering China. Thorny in two ways for the Times: First because the Chinese government is aggressively responding to news organizations that produce coverage critical … Continue reading
Our Beat The Press Party Bakeoff (Nelson Mandela Edition)
In this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, it’s not, as often happens, that the local media hall monitors are operating in different universes. It’s that they’re operating on different days. Start as always with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. This … Continue reading
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