I am officially starting to enjoy this

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My soft spot for the newspaper industry is well-known, as is my despair for the wont of real ideas for saving the most important news-gathering apparatus in existence today. (Less well-known is that my pheromones attract badgers. It’s a sexy but painful curse.)
The latest idea comes from James Rainey of the LA Times. Rainey [...]

This is why everyone hates PR people

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As someone who practices something eerily similar to the dark arts of journalism for a living, I get all sorts of press releases in my email inbox every day.
Most of them have nothing to do with my “beat,” which is so narrowly defined and esoteric as to be completely meaningless to 99% of humans [...]

How to save the news

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I have no idea how to save newspapers, except to suggest that the writers and reporting go back to writing and reporting rather than foisting their stillborn business models on the public.
That said, I think this video says a lot about how to save TV news. Sing it loud, my auto-tuned brothers and sisters:
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Newspapers will take us down with the ship

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When I was in training to become a foot soldier in the army of the newspaper media — at the East Coast Academy of God-Hating Elitism and French Cheeses — I was given fair warning that most Americans, in fact, despise the media and everybody associated with it.
“You may find it difficult to fathom,” [...]

WHAT IS APPLEBEE’S HIDING? (Who Shot Plaxico?)

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The conspiracy to assassinate Plaxico Burress’s thigh is beginning to unravel. Even though most of the media has already convicted Burress of plugging his own damn self (in what some are derisively calling a “Plaxident“), the New York Post finally got around to doing some investigating.
What they find is so shocking and profound that [...]

Kevin O’Connell probably gets tons of women

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This Boston Globe apology is exactly the kind of thing the sports blog world thrives on. It’s got mystery, intrigue, and a hilarious pay-off culminating in a fantastic dick joke starring Patriots back-up quarterback Kevin O’Connell.
Here’s the story:
On Sunday, the Globe published a photo of O’Connell taken during a practice session. The Globe’s editorial [...]

Wayne Brady was worried

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, King Magazine went and rounded up a bunch of Chappelle’s Show regulars to compile what it calls “the definitive oral history” of the much-missed series.
While I dispute that three short pages of Web copy can really be called a definitive oral history of anything, there is some pretty good stuff [...]

Sean Casey knows his neck injuries (and Papi knows his movies)

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Over at his new video blog on WEEI.com, Red Sox back-up first baseman Sean Casey holds forth on everything from haircuts to his induction into the Irish Hall of Fame at a bar in New York.
In his latest installation, the mayor laments being relegated to the disabled list with a neck ouchy and ponders [...]

The First Amendment was outdated, anyway

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First it was the mayor of Boston restricting freedom of speech at the site of its own birth. Now two more Boston-based assaults against the First Amendment have us wondering if we’ve been looking at the wrong Constitution this whole time.
First, a food blogger from California was threatened by the PR firm of Brookline-based [...]

The call was coming from inside the house

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One of the surest ways to define yourself as a political or media blogger is to regularly assault the MSM (MainStream Media) for being either derelict of duty or outright in the tank for whatever political side you argue against.
The Huffington Post, a political Web site with only 12 million or so more readers [...]