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Should sportswriters be allowed to gamble on sports?

Sucker bet
Halloween 2010 kicked off a rough week for Keith Olbermann and Bill Simmons.
By SEAN KERRIGAN | February 05, 2011

Poop and circumstance

Vo Dilun diplomacy; the Dunkin' Donuts state; networking; royal rapping
Knickers in a horrible twist in Educationland over the announcement of a three-tiered diploma system to be introduced in Rhode Island public schools.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 26, 2011

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The view from the throne

Toilet humor; They do? They don't?; The GOP is ont he clock; Dubya returns
We think we're turning Japanese, we think we're turning Japanese, we really think so. The Japanese have a tremendous obsession with toilets. But the Narragansett Bay Commission, which oversees treatment of metropolitan Providence's sewage, are getting in the game with their upcoming celebration of World Toilet Day (no, we're not kidding).
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 10, 2010

L'affaire Olbermann

Why Keith should lay off the campaign cash. Plus, Matt O'Malley for City Council.
Keith Olbermann's brief suspension from MSNBC for giving $2400 to each of three Democratic congressional candidates is an interesting case study.
By EDITORIAL | November 10, 2010

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Size matters

Big banks escape effective regulation; plus DOMA and "prison reform"
If the United States does not suffer a death wish, then it must be saddled with a streak of masochism as wide as the Mississippi River.
By EDITORIAL | July 14, 2010

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Ask the black woman

Diverse City
I've lived in Maine for seven years and been writing for this fine publication for about five, and during that time I've covered a wide array of subjects on the issue of diversity in Maine.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | August 19, 2009

Yoon or Flaherty

Who will win the chance to challenge Menino?
Boston voters will go to the polls in less than seven weeks to choose two candidates, out of the four now running, to face off against each other in November's mayoral election.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 20, 2009

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Whitehouse: Pushing to pull the truth about Bush's war skullduggery from under bus

Digging deep
Rhode Island's Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse had a Joseph Welch moment during last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
By PETER VOSKAMP | March 11, 2009

Fourth-estate follies!

Remembering the year in media malfeasance
Granted, other years have had flashier media embarrassments (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass), but that doesn't mean that 2008 lacked for media misdeeds.
By ADAM REILLY | December 24, 2008

Forward thinking

Letters to the Boston editor, November 14, 2008
Letters to the Boston editor, November 14, 2008
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | November 12, 2008

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Peacock problem

MSNBC is in Barack's corner, which may cause an electoral backfire for the Democrats
A recent Rasmussen Report poll shows that about half the country thinks the press is out to get Sarah Palin, with a full quarter saying this makes it likelier they’ll vote Republican.
By STEVEN STARK | September 10, 2008

Crossword: ''I'm surrounded by idiots''

To the left and right, as shown
To the left and right, as shown
By MATT JONES | September 03, 2008

Say what?!

East Coast Avengers wrong the right with ‘Kill Bill O’Reilly’
Rapper Esoteric has been getting lots of death threats via e-mail recently. But he’s not too worried about them, if only because of their elementary character.
By BEN WESTHOFF | September 02, 2008

Papa don't preach

Letters to the Boston editor, July 18, 2008
The total “wake-up call” is the promotion of father-less-ness in our great land and the effects it is having on society.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 16, 2008

The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By DAN KENNEDY | July 05, 2008

Russert explained

NBC’s top talking head had an outsized influence simply because he did his job so well
In terms of being an old-fashioned, old-style media icon, nobody in broadcasting today could top Tim Russert.
By EDITORIAL | June 18, 2008

Alma Obama

Understated understudy
My niece Rachael was graduated from Wesleyan this past Sunday, an accomplishment perhaps overshadowed for some by the highly publicized circumstances surrounding the commencement ceremony.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 28, 2008

Slime time

We already know about politicians’ capacity for coarse behavior. But how low can the press go?
Nasty presidential races are nothing new.
By ADAM REILLY | February 20, 2008

War stories

Pressuring the press
In his new book, Reporting the War: Freedom of the Press from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism , author John Byrne Cooke tracks press influence on public opinion.
By ADAM REILLY | November 28, 2007

The 10th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Mitt Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it will help him become president.
By DAN KENNEDY | July 10, 2007

Lapdog, meet watchdog

What’s gotten into the political press?
Hating the media has long been a popular pastime. But after the invasion of Iraq four years ago, anti-press animus reached a new level of intensity on the left. Feast or famine: Jack Shafer defends the press pre-Iraq. By Adam Reilly
By ADAM REILLY | March 21, 2007

Letters to the Portland editor: February 2, 2007

Peace needs our help
In addition to my flip comment that I personally didn’t have a clue about how to solve the horrific human tragedy we call the Iraq War, I provided Sara Donnelly with several comments in our ten-minute conversation that were constructive potential solutions.
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | January 31, 2007

Random forecast

Coming in 2007: More tech, more fear, less Paris, and some time travel
One thing that’s sure to happen in the coming year is that people will make erroneous predictions about what will happen in the coming year.
By MIKE MILIARD | December 29, 2006

Quiet warfare

Few have been paying attention to that other ongoing terrorist threat
On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.
By JENNIFER L. POZNER | November 28, 2006

Jeff Cohen on the weird and disturbing world of CNN, Fox, and MSNBC

Cable nit
In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media , Jeff Cohen writes about his years with cable news channels as a pilgrim who’s returned from a strange and hostile land.
By DAN KENNEDY | September 18, 2006