Category Archives: Media News

Five paint-covered punks, suspected to be in town for a naked graffiti party in South Boston this weekend, were busted by MBTA police while trying to practice their illegal art on several subway cars, officials said. Three of the five … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters) – At 73, country music legend Willie Nelson is still doing headstands and smoking joints in the back of a tour bus at hundreds of concerts and, far from slowing down, he’d like to tour with the … Continue reading →

SOMERVILLE — It’s a quiet night at The Thirsty Scholar, an Irish pub and dating bar on Beacon Street. A handful of bored-looking guys sit at the bar, watching a hockey game on the TV, and a few couples and … Continue reading →

A "sexual harassment" investigation is ongoing at an Ohio college after the school’s librarian suggested that students read a few books from a conservative perspective. According to the Alliance Defense Fund — a legal alliance that aggressively defends religious liberty … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped. Rumsfeld told reporters he was … Continue reading →

An amazing demonstration of the utility of the meta-data recently added to the New York Times web site, allowing articles to be cross-indexed by related topics and articles. from Aaronland

Boy, reading the New York Times Tough Shit Op-Ed pieces by their "big guns" Kristoff, Dowd, Herbert and Friedman for free keeps getting harder and harder. Decent writers, all, but hardly worth the price of the paper alone on the … Continue reading →

Last week we got one of those artfully timed dinnertime calls from an earnest young woman trying to sell us a service we didn’t need. It was a "tepid" telemarketing call, as opposed to a cold call.  That is, it … Continue reading →

Any kind of a life crisis – medical, emotional, financial or existential – imbues one with a renewed appreciation of life’s simple pleasures.  Like the morning newspaper. It may be sacrilegious for a "new media" guy to say, but there … Continue reading →

For a fan of daily newspapers who is also a student and teacher of Media News, the relative vitality of the American printed press is something of a sore spot.  News about the field usually involves declines in circulation, consolidation … Continue reading →