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Boston Phoenix

Boston Phoenix is a newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, USA covering local events and entertainment.

The newspaper is published once a week on Thursday.

Started in 1966 as a four-page arts and entertainment alternative newspaper, the Phoenix offers inclusive journalism and comprehensive entertainment listings for the Boston area.

This newspaper is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN). AAN is a group of weekly newspapers providing journalism that offers an alternative to the mainstream media in the area.

Circulation: 115,000 copies

This newspaper is owned by The Phoenix Media/Communications Group.

The web site is presented in the English language.


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Lance Gould is the editor of the Boston Phoenix.

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 Political Bias:   Liberal (1 votes)
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Comments to date: 2. The most recent comments are below.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 8:53am on Monday, December 28th, 2009

December 23, 2009 -- The Boston Phoenix's Adam Reilly announces his 30 media lowlights of 2009:

"Between the rise of the Web, the ADD-addling of America, the fragmentation of any national political consensus, and the devastated economy, working in the press can feel a bit like manning the Titanic — and this year, the entire industry seemed to teeter on the edge of oblivion. That may explain 2009's roster of media misdeeds, which include unseemly schadenfreude, excessive journalistic aggression (physical and verbal), shameless whoring for Web traffic, shoddy writing and editing, timidity in the face of power, naked acquisitiveness — and a cartoon depicting Barack Obama as a dead chimp. It may not have been the ugliest media year on record, but 2009 certainly wasn't pretty, here in Boston or anywhere else. Take the following lowlights — please!"

The full story:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/94820-Fourth-estate-follies-2009-edition/


Eric Kallgren    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 12:18pm on Friday, May 29th, 2009

The comments of Tom Friedman, self-styled "public intellectual" at the New York Times, could mean the end of the Boston Globe, according to Adam Reilly writing in the Boston Phoenix on May 27, 2009:

"Lawrence Wright's profile of Carlos Slim Helu tells us that star New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has unlimited travel expenses, and never really has to explain what he's going to write about before he hits the road. It also quotes Friedman on the future of the news business, saying that, eventually, “It’s going to be us and the BBC and the Wall Street Journal and not a lot more.” Friedman also speaks of the Times partnering with another right-thinking party--perhaps New York mayor and Bloomberg News founder Michael Bloomberg.

As Michael Roston notes, Friedman's comments are--how to put it--inelegant:

I hardly know where to begin, but this has to be one of the worst-timed statements in the history of public relations.

The flat-worlder just got dinged by his own paper’s public editor for an ethical violation - accepting a (later returned) $75,000 speaking fee from a group that was neither educational nor nonprofit in nature. While Friedman fessed up to his transgression, he doesn’t seem to care about its roader ties to his megastardom as a public intellectual who gets paid a ot of money to do and write whatever he wants while still masquerading as a ‘journalist.’

Really, while the lumpen proletariat of the Times’s staff await quarterly reports to be issued to see if they’ll still have jobs in 2010, Friedman is boasting that he can go wherever he want, write whatever occurs to him, and spend however much he wants to do those things without any attention to how his profligacy harms the paper’s ability to survive. And he’s insinuating hat his boss doesn’t really care."


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