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April 28, 2006

Muffling the Voice
By webteam
For those who care, here's a piece from LA City Beat casting a very jaundiced eye on New Times honcho Mike Lacey's plans for the newly acquired Village Voice, where the bodies are piling up like it's Baghdad.

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April 28, 2006

Whitey and Pablo?
By webteam
Howie Carr's got quite a yarn today about Whitey Bulger possibly being the owner of what is possibly an abandoned Picasso. And here's a sentence that just makes me laugh every time I read it.

Even though he’s never been known as an art fancier, Whitey is well-known as a pervert, and the painting depicts a Minotaur performing oral sex on a woman.

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April 28, 2006

Trial by Media
By webteam
Read about why the splashy Duke rape case is a made-for-media blockbuster in "Blue (-Eyed) Devils?" -- this week's "Don't Quote Me" column in the Phoenix.

And here's an AP story reporting that the alleged victim in this case accused three men of rape a decade ago in a case that apparently went nowhere. This is going to be one of those drip, drip, drip trial-by-media events.

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April 28, 2006

An Intriguing Suggestion for the Times Co.
By webteam
There's an eye-catching suggestion in yesterday's New York Sun story discussing possible ways of dealing with the New York Times Co's troubling performance on Wall Street. Here's a paragraph bound to get some attention around here:

The move has been described as a "wake-up call" to management. What is less clear is what even an insomniac management can do to turn things around.

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April 27, 2006

New Globe Ad Exec
By webteam
More new blood on the troubled business side of the Boston Globe. The new hire, Samuel Martin, replaces Mary Jane Patrone who recently departed after 30 years at the paper. Here are the basics:

BOSTON, April 27, 2006 – Samuel P. Martin was named Chief Advertising Officer (CAO) of Boston Globe Media in an announcement made today by Mary Jacobus, president of the Boston Globe.

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April 27, 2006

A New Sheen for Dean
By webteam
Here's a headline, taken from Jim Romenesko's web site, that I don't think anyone could have imagined a few years ago.

"Ridder: Singleton will be a very good steward of the Merc"

Yes as part of a complicated deal, William Dean Singleton is now an owner of some of the "orphan" papers left over from the big Knight-Ridder yard sale.

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April 26, 2006

The White House and the Press
By webteam
It was hard not to think "harmonic convergence" after a day in which Larry King aired an interview with 92-year-old W. Mark Felt (AKA "Deep Throat"), Fox Newsie Tony Snow replaced "Scramblin'" Scott McClellan as White House press secretary, and CIA employee Mary McCarthy -- fired for allegedly leaking information used in Dana Priest's Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on secret terror prisons abroad -- claimed she didn't do it

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April 25, 2006

For Better or Diverse
By webteam
The American Society of Newspaper Editors reports that the percentage of minorities in newspaper newsrooms inched up oh so slightly last year to just under 14 percent. But that still lags far beyond our national demographics and news industry targets. It's hard to call that progress.

My view is that part of the solution entails creating and developing real media literacy curricula in the nation's public school systems -- something that media companies themselves ought to be willing to invest in and support.

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April 25, 2006

Two Views of the Times
By webteam
Here are two distinctly different opinions on last week's shareholder uprising at the New York Times Co. annual meeting.

The first (below), which appeared on Jim Romenesko's site as a letter from BU professor Chris Daly, provides the passionate, journalism-oriented view of the Times Co. and says a pox on Morgan Stanley:

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April 25, 2006

Programming Note
By webteam
On the off chance you're hanging around Copley Square tomorrow evening, the Cambridge Forum is hosting a discussion on "The Role of Journals of Opinion," at the Rabb Lecture Hall in the Boston Public Library with a panel including Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of the Nation , Robert Kuttner, founding co-editor of the American Prospect,and Jack Beatty, senior editor of the Atlantic Monthly

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April 25, 2006

King and Felt
By webteam
Normally, I'd opt for any episode of The Andy Griffith Show on TVLand before I'd tune in to Larry King's blabfest on CNN. But tonight, he is interviewing W. Mark Felt, the nonagenarian who, after three decades, finally came out of the closet in last year's Vanity Fair expose as "Deep Throat."

This meeeting certainly has high curiosity value.

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April 21, 2006

New Snow Job
By webteam
The New York Times is reporting that radio host, Fox News host, and columnist Tony Snow is close to becoming the new White House press secretary. I have nothing against him, although I find his voice a bit weird.

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April 21, 2006

Rodman to the Globe
By webteam
MY colleagues at the Phoenix are reporting that the Globe has poached the Herald's Sarah Rodman to replace departed pop culture/music writer Renee Graham (one of the paper's biggest losses in last year's wave of buyouts) and rock writer Steve Morse. (The commentary on the wisdom of that pick reflects the view of On the Download, not necessarily that of Media Log.

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April 20, 2006

Coleman Calls out the CC Times
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Two comments/caveats about Jack Coleman, who posted this blog item. First, he's a Cape Wind project partisan and second, he left the Cape Cod Times under less than amiable conditions.

Having said that, it's worth reading his harsh and impassioned critique of his old employer and its coverage of the sizzling wind power issue on the Cape.

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April 20, 2006

Ellen Hume's Ethnic Media Mission
By webteam

Sitting in her cramped and crowded sixth floor office in the Wheatley Building on the UMass Boston campus, Ellen Hume explains the philosophy that drives her these days.
“There are a lot of people working on saving the Boston Globe. But I don’t see a lot of people out there working to save Sampan,” she says, referring to Boston’s bi-lingual Chinese community newspaper.

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