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Lynch sides with Bush in opposing shield law

Talking Politics
As he gears up for a gubernatorial run in 2010, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has assembled an eclectic and sometimes contrary portfolio of issue-related stances.
By IAN DONNIS | July 09, 2008

Bad sports

While old and new media are mending many fences, they’re still squaring off in jockland
When historians trace the rise of the blog as the dominant journalistic form of the 21st century, they’ll pay close attention to two recent developments.
By ADAM REILLY | June 18, 2008

See no evil

What’s on the videotape Dan Conley won’t make public? Plus, winners in the Times ’ McCain mess.
An intriguing battle pitting government against the press is currently percolating on the North Shore and here in Boston.
By ADAM REILLY | February 27, 2008

A tragicomedy of errors

In an excerpt from his new book, The Fall of the House of Bush, author Craig Unger details how Bush is, well, screwing up the world
It was not until after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were narrowly re-elected that many Americans began to realize that the Iraq War represented a dangerous moment in American history.
By CRAIG UNGER | November 20, 2007

Legislature moves to protect Maine journalists

Shield law
“The very fact that the court would grant a motion like this, when there’s no suit pending,” she says. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
By JEFF INGLIS | October 17, 2007

Feast or famine?

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

Pressing the case

A limited federal shield law would be better than the post-Libby status quo
In the aftermath of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s perjury conviction last week, the journalistic fallout of the case remains a subject of intense interest for reporters and legal observers.
By JIM TARICANI | March 14, 2007

Taking stock of an imperiled free press

News you can lose
Frontline ’s new PBS series on the shifting balance-of-power between the government and the media — New War: Secrets, Spin and the Future of the News — isn’t uplifting. Far from it. But it’s essential viewing for anyone interested in the future of a free US press.
By ADAM REILLY | February 07, 2007

Good Deval, bad Deval

How will Governor Patrick work the press?
There are a few ways to interpret Deval Patrick’s weeklong million-dollar inaugural bash, which includes festivities throughout Massachusetts and concludes with Patrick’s swearing-in outside the State House on January 4.
By ADAM REILLY | January 08, 2007

Whatever happened to Memogate?

Waiting for the Globe ’s mea culpa
If the Big Dig tunnel collapse that killed Milena Del Valle is the biggest Boston news story of 2006, the media story of the year is the Globe reporting — incorrectly — that a safety officer at the site all but predicted Del Valle’s death back in 1999. Key moments in memogate: Anatomy of a gaffe. By Adam Reilly
By ADAM REILLY | November 10, 2006

Driving Mr. Kennedy

A plurality of JFK and Jesus portraits shore up Patrick’s base
Where the hell was the chauffeur when US Representative Patrick Kennedy needed him?
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 10, 2006

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

Jamestown loses its erection

The big blow-up could be a spectacle for the ages
Jamestown Bridge is falling down, falling down. Jamestown Bridge is falling down, my fair lady!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 12, 2006

Sleazy? Yes. Criminal? Probably not.

The New York Times has grown so gullible that it believed the spin on the Page Six scandal
As anyone attuned to sleaze and sensationalism is aware, the scandalmongers at the New York Post ’s Page Six are themselves engulfed in a scandal of tsunami-like proportions — at least in the world where reality is defined by People , Us , Star , and the National Enquirer .
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | April 12, 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

The prince and the paper

Quietly building his journalistic credentials in Rhode Island, 25-year-old Arthur Gregg Sulzberger could one day vie for the top job at the New York Times
When a young Providence Journal reporter was poised to reveal the all-male membership of the Narragansett Lions Club last year, it didn’t sit well with at least one member.
By IAN DONNIS | February 02, 2006

The trouble with the truth

Politics and other mistakes
I think I deserve considerable credit for not comparing Governor John Baldacci’s state-of-the-state address to the kind of memoir that wins an endorsement from Oprah’s book club.
By AL DIAMON | February 02, 2006

Globe-al anxiety

The Boston Globe is going through its biggest shake-up in 30 years. What will it mean for the paper, the editor, the remaining staff, and the city itself?
There were more lumps of coal than holiday cheer at 135 Morrissey Boulevard this Christmas season.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 14, 2006