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Photos: WBCN through the years

Photos of WBCN and its personalities from the Boston Phoenix archives
A look back at WBCN
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 17, 2009

Corporate parent kills WBCN

Closing time
WBCN-FM, a/k/a the “Rock of Boston,” has as storied a history as any Boston radio station, but its 41-year run on the local airwaves is ending with a whimper.
By ADAM REILLY AND MIKE MILIARD | July 17, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Still dissecting

Danny Schechter’s bid for media reform
A year after releasing his remarkably prescient film on the then-nascent financial crisis, In Debt We Trust , veteran progressive journalist Danny Schechter finally made it onto CNBC.
By DAN KENNEDY | April 10, 2008

Feast or famine?

Jack Shafer defends the press pre-Iraq
Jack Shafer defends the press pre-Iraq
By ADAM REILLY | March 21, 2007

Won’t get fooled again

With reports of Iran-war drums beating, how will the media react this time around?
Seymour Hersh’s April 17 New Yorker article, which reported that a “messianic” Bush White House was contemplating regime change and tactical nuclear strikes to pre-empt Iran’s bomb-building program, landed with its own explosive power last week.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | April 25, 2006

Numbing carnage

Once an upbeat hit, Bush’s Iraq show has jumped the shark
On the morning of March 8, viewers had their first sip of coffee to a grisly sight on the news shows: grainy video of roughly two-dozen dead Iraqis lined up in a makeshift morgue, many of them apparently bound and strangled.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | March 15, 2006