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November 30, 2006

Convey: we were wrong
By Adam Reilly
In today's Globe story on the fragile (or already broken) truce between Boston's Heath Street and H-Block gangs, reporters Brian Ballou and Suzanne Smalley engage in some indirect press criticism while describing yesterday's anti-violence press conference in JP. To wit:

Schenel Searcy, whose son Carl was slain last year, blasted the Boston Herald for identifying her other son and reporting that police wanted to question him about [Jahmol] Norfleet's death.

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November 29, 2006

Herald Interactive loses CNC
By Adam Reilly
Bad news for Pat Purcell: come December 6, Community Newspaper Company will be moving its classified and editorial content from platforms run by Herald Interactive (owned by Purcell) to platforms run by GateHouse Media (which bought CNC from Purcell in May), according to an internal memo from GateHouse jefe Kirk Davis.

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November 29, 2006

Globe gang coverage: unintended consequences?
By Adam Reilly
The title of the story the Globe's Suzanne Smalley wrote about a truce between Boston's Heath Street and H-Block gangs earlier this month--"2 gangs find real peace, in secret"--raised an obvious question: would the aforementioned peace be jeopardized by being made public?

Now, following yesterday's killing of an H-Block leader in Roxbury, it's worth asking again.

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November 22, 2006

Advertorial of the Day
By Adam Reilly
"Are you planning to go to Wrentham Outlets at midnight for Black Friday shopping deals?"

No, Jenn Abelson, I'm not. Why do you ask?

Maybe it's just coincidence, but Abelson's query tops the list of "Reporter's Questions" on the Globe's home page on the same day that the Wrentham Outlets have a big fat ad advertising their post-Thanksgiving sale (starting at midnight!) plastered on page A7 of the paper.

Planned or not, this is tacky.

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November 22, 2006

The biographical detail that dare not speak its name
By Adam Reilly
In this week's Phoenix, I argue that we in the media need to get over our squeamishness when it comes to outing public figures as gay--or, at the very least, that we need to think through the issue a lot more thoroughly.

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November 21, 2006

Herald v. Post: who wins perv war?
By Adam Reilly
In a piece posted yesterday evening, Slate press critic Jack Shafer sized up the NY Post's intense affection for the term "perv." Here's what he found: in the last 8 years, the Post has put "perv" into 642 headlines (!) and "pervert" into another 59--a rate of about 90 perv/pervert heds annually.

Obviously, I had to see how the Herald stacked up.

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November 20, 2006

Atkins exits
By Adam Reilly
Bad news for the Herald--Kim Atkins, the paper's fine State House correspondent, is leaving the paper as of December 15 to move to Washington, DC. She'll be replaced by Casey Ross, the paper's transportation reporter. (Via State House News Service.)

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November 20, 2006

Rehire DePetro!
By Adam Reilly
I've haven't visited Hub Politics much of late, so I just learned that a petition to rehire John DePetro 1) exists and 2) has 610 signatures.

If you're looking to kill time, the comments accompanying the signatures make for good reading. Here a few of my favorites:

"He said absolutly nothing wrong! When you start firing people for tone, who will be the next?"

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November 17, 2006

RKO's next move
By Adam Reilly
WRKO's decision to huffily fire John DePetro for calling Grace Ross a "fat lesbian" seemed lame to begin with, since--as Dan Kennedy promptly pointed out--Howie Carr routinely trafficks in nastier homophobic stuff.

But now that the AM station has gutted its entire news operation (the Herald has the scoop; the Globe hasn't mentioned it), DePetro's firing looks even less impressive.

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November 16, 2006

The next Bill Simmons?
By Adam Reilly
ESPN's new Page 2 columnist, Jemele Hill, makes her debut today with a piece that goes straight at issues of race in sports--and of race, period. (Hill is African-American.) Some highlights:
You want to know if I think O.J. did it, if I believe Barry Bonds cheated, if I'll stick up for T.O., if I love the WNBA, if I'll defend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, if I hate white people, if I hate black people, and if I think the Duke lacrosse players actually raped the black exotic dancer/college student/single mother.

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November 16, 2006

A good day for the Herald
By Adam Reilly
Reason #1: The visual accompanying Dave Wedge's story on the State Police's Thanksgiving crackdown, which should be a contender for Photo Illustration of the Year, if such a category exists somewhere.

Reason #2: The Track Girls break the news that Daisuke Matsuzaka's wife, Toyomo Shibata, is nicknamed "Rockets," apparently due to her breasts.

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November 16, 2006

Mitt's Boston-media anxiety
By Adam Reilly
Today on Gitell.com, ex-Phoenician Seth Gitell has a characteristically sharp analysis of Mitt Romney's kvetching about the Boston media. The heart of Seth's analysis:

Here’s a guess of what’s really going on. The governor is getting worried that Deval Patrick will soon takeover the keys of the State House and Patrick’s Democratic staffers will have access to all the executive agencies and all their files.

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November 15, 2006

Free advice for Boston.com
By Adam Reilly
Quick suggestion: if you want to be "My Boston," be more like tampabay.com, the joint web venture of the St. Petersburg Times (a fine paper!) and Tampa Bay Times.

Which means? Getting rid of crap like this, and giving us this. Or this. Or this. And it's all right there on the main page--just scroll down a bit!

I'm going to go use the internet now.

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November 15, 2006

Fox News: even worse than usual
By Adam Reilly
First off, the network's going to air two one-hour specials with O.J. Simpson, who's got a forthcoming book explaining how he would have killed his wife and Ron Goldman if, hypothetically, he'd killed his wife and Ron Goldman. BTW, both Fox and ReganBooks, Simpson's publisher, are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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November 14, 2006

Deep thoughts at Media Nation
By Adam Reilly
Today, the estimable Dan Kennedy offers a glimpse into NewAssignment.net, a venture launched by NYU journalism prof Jay Rosen that's aimed at fostering collaborations between professional and citizen journalists. It's a must-read.

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