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A NOTE OF APPRECIATION TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES…

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

“The New York Times” by aldwinumali is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0,

 

The timing couldn’t have been better. No sooner did this publication release last week’s editorial announcing our “unnaming” policy ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criticism, DigBoston, editorial, ethics, fascist, Jason Pramas, Journalism, nazi, New York Times, policy, ultra right, unnaming, white supremacy

EVERY INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST’S WORST NIGHTMARE HAS BECOME REALITY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 5, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

How the New York Times just hobbled nonprofit reporting incubators nationwide

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Columbia Journalism Review, Guardian, Journalism, media, New York Times, nonprofit, Poynter

MASS (KIND OF) HAS WEED, STILL OTHERS SUFFER ELSEWHERE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 5, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

The hypocrisy and stubbornness is only compounded when pondering the plight of veterans, who in many cases literally have to break the law in order to get much-needed relief for injuries sustained while serving Uncle Sam and all of us.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: afghanistan, Big Pharma, cannabis, Combat Photographer, iraq, medical marijuana, New York Times, opiates, PTSD, Shooting Ghosts, soldiers, Thomas Brennan, traumatic brain injury, U.S. Marine, war

WHAT YOU WON’T FIND IN THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE BOSTON GLOBE’S PAGE ONE SEMIAUTOMATIC OP-ED

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 16, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

We don’t say this stuff because we think guns are great, but rather to remind people that the Globe is merely out for clicks and eyeballs like every other outlet.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: assault rifles, Boston Globe, Fidelity, firearms, gun manufacturers, media, New York Times, Oregon, page one op-ed, semiautomatic weapons, State Street, Vanguard

GUNBARRASSING: A PAGE ONE OP-ED AGAINST REDUNDANT PAGE ONE ANTI-GUN OP-EDS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 8, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

It truly sucks to have to say this stuff, as we will certainly be attacked by any number of well-meaning liberal college activists and other Democratic sycophants who will fail to understand that we also believe this country has a significant gun problem.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Gun Ownership, Gun Violence, guns, liberal media, mass shootings, National Review, New York Times, NRA, NYT, Page One

TRUMP TAKES DUMP IN BABY’S MOUTH, FINGERS OWN BUTTHOLE ON DEBATE STAGE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 1, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

Image by Kent Buckley

 

We’ve been trying to do big things with Media Farm. Sure, first and foremost we report from the id and sewer of the media diaspora (sorry if we used that word wrong; like most people, we don’t actually know what it means), but in recent ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: BDC, Boston.com, Donald Trump, New York Times, presidential politics

THE GREATER BOSTON INSTAGRAM SURVEILLANCE CHALLENGE: FLICK THE POLICE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 25, 2015 Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Help us inventory the surveillance cameras in Greater Boston

Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #BINJbrother, Beacon Hill, biometrics, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Police Department, Boston Trolling, BPD, Cambridge, facial recognition, hashtag, instagram, New York Times, Politics, software contracts, surveillance, Twitter, whitewashing

PAL’N AROUND: GET READY FOR INDIA’S MOST INTELLIGENT COMIC

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted April 1, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

"We just want validation. We just want the Americans to think, 'Oh, they fucking love us!'”

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: Anuvab Pal, bangalore, bollywood, British, comic, gandhi, global satarists, India!, Jeb Bush, Laugh Boston, New York Times, Reuters, stand up, SXSW, the empire, Wesleyan University

STATE OF PLAY: MFA SHOWCASES THE DIVERSITY OF IRANIAN FILM

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted January 19, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

For the uninitiated, experiencing an entirely new cinematic style can be a lot to take in, so we’ve organized this year’s slate into two categories: those made in Iran with full knowledge and support from the authorities, and those made subversively or under conditions of questionable legality.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: a separation, annual, cannes, covert, festival of films, fifi howls from happiness, fish & cat, foreign language film, iran, iranian cinema, leila hatami, manuscripts don't burn, mehran tamadon, MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, Oscar, shahram mokri, stop over, subversive, whats the time in your world

DOG GONE: 40-YEAR-OLD FANEUIL HALL DIVE GETTING THE HEAVE-HO

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted December 15, 2014 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

The Salty Dog is any indicator, could be just the beginning in a series of changes to polish over the past, remove the present, and make way for the internationally chain-flavored future.

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: boutique hotel, bryant park, college, Dig Boston, DigBoston, eviction, faneiul hall, Faneuil Hall, food court, local vendors, mall, New York Times, property development, pushcarts, quincy market, Seafood, south market, the salty dog

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