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Newsies: Stop Covering Coverage of Donald Trump
Definition of irony: Journalists lamenting news coverage of Donald Trump’s self-promotional presidential campaign. Representative sample, via the Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby. News organizations are under no obligation to provide a platform to every narcissistic buffoon who declares himself a candidate for … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (One Town, Two Different Places Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight this week provides another episode in our long-running One Town, Two Different Places mediadrama. Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party featured this: On Press Party this week we talk about why the media’s attention was so focused … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jazeera America, Beat the Press, Bill Kelller, Boston Herald, Emma Keller, Fox News, Fox Newshound, Gabriel Sherman, Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, Jenny Dell, NESN, Press Party, Red Sox, Roger Ailes, The Guardian, The Loudest Voice in the Room, Wayne's World webcast, WGBH, Will Middlebrooks
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Theater Critics’ Spidey Sense Tingling: All Over?
Memo to the financial backers of Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark: Turn off the critics. Because – nationwide – they have risen up as one to thoroughly pan the Broadway musical directed by former golden girl Julie Taymor, with music … Continue reading
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Tagged Bono, Fox Newshound, Glenn Beck, Julie Taymor, Nick & Nora, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, The Edge, U2
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Our Gala Late-To-The-Party Extravaganza (Glenn Beck Edition)
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is not on this earth long enough to jump into the news media’s reconstruction/deconstruction of Fox Newshound Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honorpalooza in Washington, D.C. Saturday. (Abandon all hope ye who enter here.) But we will … Continue reading