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Boston Globe Adds Clarification To Dan Shaughnessy’s Column About Red Sox Announcer Don Orsillo
The Boston Globe on Tuesday appended a clarification to Dan Shaughnessy’s online column about fired Red Sox announcer Don Orsillo, explaining the extent… -
Coming Of Age: Becoming Jewish At Boston College
Growing up in Harrison, New York, ten minutes outside the Bronx, everyone I knew was Italian or Jewish or both. Mine was a pretty secular home, run by an… -
Dan Shaughnessy Defends Boston Globe Over Deleted Sentence In Don Orsillo Column
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy wrote another in a series of tough commentaries Monday about the firing of Don Orsillo, the popular Red Sox… -
Do Tele-Marketers Calls Make Your Blood Boil? Then Read This
The incessant telephone calls make my blood boil. The ringing and ringing and ringing—calls revealed by caller ID not to be from friends, or from… -
Should On-Air Murder Be Rebroadcast? Media Critic Dan Kennedy Storifies The Issue
On Wednesday, a disgruntled former employee of Roanoke, Virginia-based WDBJ-TV fatally shot two of the station’s journalists as they were conducting a… -
Is The Provincetown Carnival Losing Its Queerness?
The best week to be in Provincetown is the week of Carnival. The parade is its signature extravaganza.While many would contest that any week in P’Town… -
Boston Globe To Address Columnist John Sununu’s Outside Interests
Last week the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America published its latest post on the many conflicts of Boston Globe columnist John E.… -
With Havana Embassy Reopened, McGovern Urges Cuban Engagement; Plus More
Secretary of State John Kerry officially re-opened the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba this month, and Worcester's Jim McGovern was one of eight members of… -
Steel-Cage Death Match Of The #Mapoli Political Email Newsletters
Politico this morning debuts its Massachusetts Playbook, compiled by Lauren Dezenski, most recently of the Dorchester Reporter. It’s a newsy round-up of… -
'Tomorrow Is Not Promised': Life After Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina looms large in my emotional memory and always will. Three months after the storm hit my father died unexpectedly. Those gale force winds…