The infighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small: Far-right talk-show host Jeff Kuhner, embroiled in a feud with Trump-friendly Howie Carr, calls for a boycott of the Boston Herald. This story at Boston Broadside is unreadable, but Scott Van Voorhis summarizes it nicely at Contrarian Boston. Leave a comment | Read comments
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Over the past few months, news organizations in Boston have unveiled massive projects that dig deeply into traumatic (for very different reasons) historical events — The Boston Globe’s series on the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart at the hands of her husband, Charles, whose claim that the killing was carried out by a Black man […]
As I noted Thursday, one of the few positive contributions Rupert Murdoch can take credit for is preserving The Wall Street Journal as a great national newspaper. Another is that he saved the Boston Herald — not once, but twice. Larry Edelman of The Boston Globe writes about the first time (he interviewed me). I […]
Previously published at GBH News. This morning, the day after what was surely the worst presidential debate in our unhappy nation’s history, I have the task of making sense of it through the eyes of the media. What can I say? We all saw what we saw, and if you didn’t see it, count yourself […]
Previously published at WGBHNews.org. If I had a nickel for every time someone predicted the death of the Boston Herald over the past 25 years, I would have — well, many nickels. So I see last week’s announcement by Herald owner Pat Purcell that he plans to sell his paper to GateHouse Media as just […]
Published earlier at WGBHNews.org. Here’s the answer to today’s Newspaper Jeopardy question: “Maybe, if there’s a willing buyer and seller.” Now for the question: “With Rupert Murdoch getting out of the Boston television market, is there any chance that he would have another go with the Boston Herald?” Following Tuesday’s announcement that Cox Media Group would acquire […]
Yes, Whitey Bulger is evil scum. But the star witness against him, John Martorano, served only 12 years for murdering 20 people, one more than Bulger, according to the federal indictment. Martorano’s victims include, by his own telling, at least two innocent teenagers. Martorano has also profited mightily from his homicidal career, splitting six-figure advances […]
A few days ago we learned that Whitey Bulger had named Boston Globe reporter Shelley Murphy, Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr and former Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill as possible witnesses in his federal trial. Today we learn the likely reason: the five, all of whom have written books […]
Yes, as a matter of fact, I am old enough to remember Glenn Ordway as the color man back when the legendary Johnny Most was doing Celtics play-by-play. I have nothing especially profound to say about Ordway’s departure from WEEI Radio (AM 850), a station he helped build into a sports powerhouse and that is […]
Happy news breaks out at Media Nation
By Dan Kennedy
On January 28, 2015
In Media
Tighter editing standards at Boston.com, improved online comments at the Boston Herald and well-deserved recognition for some first-rate political reporters. There’s so much good news on the local media front on this day-after-the-blizzard morning that it’s hard to know where to begin. • Boston.com strives for civility. After a miserable stretch in which it falsely accused a Harvard […]