It was surprising, if not baffling, to watch broadcast news icon Emily Rooney blast the feature on Beat the Press, a local weekly media show that she hosts on the Boston PBS station WGBH.
THE TEST RESULTS ARE IN: PROHIBITIONISTS LIE
Or how I sacked the quarterback of the anti-legalization movement
WHY ARE SO FEW ‘HIGH SCHOOL QUIZ SHOW’ CONTESTANTS BLACK?
Structural racism is the problem … now what’s the solution?
PUFF POLICE: CONTRARY TO COMMISSIONER’S CLAIMS, BPD MASTURBATED BY MEDIA
To show the extent to which his department is actually showered with positive press, we plugged “Boston Police Department” into the Google machine, and parsed all of the puffery from just October into four distinct categories.
COUNTERING COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE
Mainstream tools have looked the other way, the entire time enabling our police state to metastasize, batons to crack, and thousands of surveillance cameras to scan both cars and crowds in spite of ongoing attempts to outlaw the recording of cops.
THE AG CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ON WEED
Healey, is this a joke?
ALL TSARNAEV, ALL THE TIME
Some coverage last week rang more like an L.L. Bean Catalog description than notes on a federal bombing trial.
MASS HAS A NEW PARTY (AND NOT JUST THE ONE REPUBLICANS ARE THROWING RIGHT NOW)
I didn’t hang at Evan Falchuk’s campaign office on Tremont Street past midnight just for kicks this morning. Nor was I only there for the beer, much of which was being sipped and spilled in celebration.
