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New and Old Media's Shifting Roles After Bombing

David Tereshchuk | Posted 06.17.2013 | Media
Read More: Associated Press, Cnn, Washington Post, Twitter, Boston Marathon Bombing, Terrorism, The Boston Globe, Media News
David Tereshchuk

Among all the other aching distress caused by the Boston bombing, its coverage in the major media gave us precious little of American journalism's best work. The wall-to-wall team coverage that such appalling events now engender operates to the severe detriment of meaningful journalism.

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WATCH: The Real Story Behind Scumbag Steve

Posted 11.26.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Scumbag Steve, Internet Memes, Video, Scumbag Steve Documentary, Blake Boston, Scumbag Steve Real Name, The Boston Globe, Comedy News

Some men were born to be Internet memes. Blake Boston was one of those men. Boston became an accidental Internet meme in 2011, when a photo from hi...

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WATCH: Father And Sons Earn Diplomas Together

Posted 05.23.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Sons Graduate With Dad, Suffolk University, Video, Thomas Demakes, The Boston Globe, Dad Graduates With Sons, Old Neighborhood Foods, Jobs post50, Parenting post50, Fifty News

A father and his three sons all earned their MBAs together from Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School this week, after five years of night schoo...

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Prizes, Central Banking and Some Thoughts on Equilibrium

Robert Teitelman | Posted 04.30.2012 | Business
Read More: The-Deal-Pipeline, Robert Teitelman, The Deal Magazine, Pulitzer Prize, The Boston Globe, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The pretense is that through some deliberative and democratic magic, the prize is bestowed correctly. In short, there's equilibrium out there at every moment that the market is reaching for. Unfortunately, for both markets and prizes, humanity makes the call.

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Would Pope Benedict XVI Ever Quit?

Jon M. Sweeney | Posted 04.16.2012 | Religion
Read More: Regensburg University Speech, Popes, Longmeadow Massachusetts, Pope Celestine V, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, L'Aquila, The Boston Globe, Catholic Church, Pope Quits, Pope Benedict Quits, Religion News
Jon M. Sweeney

It has become clear that Pope Benedict is willing to engage with the problems the Church faces. Yet, I wonder if he still considers walking away.

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Paper Defends Naming FBI Informant Who Helped Nab Mobster

Posted 12.11.2011 | Media
Read More: Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger Tipster, Whitey Bulger Arrest, Whitey Bulger Case, The Boston Globe, Video, Media News

The Boston Globe has found itself under fire for publicly identifying the woman who led the FBI to the notorious mob boss Whitey Bulger. In a Globe...

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Finding A Musical Muse At Midlife

Second Act | Posted 12.10.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Reinvention, Rock Critic, Joan Anderman, Midlife, Annie Lennox, The Boston Globe, Rickie Lee Jones, Richard Thompson, Fifty News

Joan Anderman once had what a lot of other rock-obsessed baby boomers would consider a dream job. As a popular music and culture writer for The Boston...

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Life's Just a Comic Book: Thor, and Hollywood's Monetization of Mediocrity

John Farr | Posted 06.05.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Natalie Portman, Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, The New York Times, 3-D Movies, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Spiderman, Thirteen/WNET, Robert Downey Jr, Iron Man, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Comics, USA Today, The Avengers, Kenneth Branagh, The Boston Globe, A.O. Scott, Movie Critic, Thor, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

This weekend's release reflects the industry's increasing reliance on that forbidden joy of my childhood -- the comic book -- to justify its existence. But many of the nation's critics readily drank the Thor Kool-Aid.

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Saki Knafo

Pulitzer Prize Winners For 2011: See The Full List

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.18.2011 | Media
Read More: The New York Times, Pulitzer Prizes 2011, Jennifer Egan, Media, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post, Eric Foner, Bruce Norris, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Boston Globe, Pulitzer Prizes, The Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize 2011, Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Media News

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, and many of the journalism awards went to venerable, well-decorated publications. The New York T...

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A Baker's Dozen of Essential Blogs More Than Worth Your Time

Holly Cara Price | Posted 06.17.2011 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Holly Gleason, Project Runway, Steve Young, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, Pop Culture, Internet-Surfing, Music, David Letterman Show, Paparazzi Photos, When Parents Text, Una LaMarche, The Boston Globe, Cathryn Swan, Flavorpill, The Sassy Curmudgeon, Burning Wood, Inga Sarda-Sorensen, Baby Boomers, Sal Nunziato, Flavorwire, Blogs, Washington Square Park Blog, Boom Underground, The Big Picture, Arts News, Websites, Julie Mihaly, Selleck Waterfall Sandwich, Dangerous Minds, Inga's Angle - One Shutterbug's Take on the Big Apple, The Yummy List, Roald Dahl, Reading, Jeremiah Moss, Celebrigum, Arts News
Holly Cara Price

Steve Young has been a writer for the David Letterman Show since 1990. One year ago he happened to glance out a window in the upstairs hallway and noticed a piece of petrified gum on the window ledge.

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GE Versus The NYT: Who Pays More Taxes?

Tax.com | David Cay Johnston | Posted 06.11.2011 | Business
Read More: General Electric, Vat, Income Taxes, Tax Lobbying, The Boston Globe, New York Times, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Breaks, Scrupulous, Ge, Business News

Just as the individual income tax falls more heavily on the affluent than the super-rich, so too does the corporate income tax. The giants of American...

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Harvard President Links Campus Ban On ROTC To "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Don't Ask, Drew Gilpin Faust, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Harvard University, Harvard President Links Rotc Ban to Don't Ask, Faust ROTC Interview, The Northeast, Rotc, College News, Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Harvard Rotc, Harvard, Harvard University Rotc, Rotc Harvard, Dont Ask Dont Tell, College News

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust said that ROTC will be welcome on campus once it repeals "don't ask, don't tell," the Boston Globe repo...

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Why Do These Wimps Need a Magazine?

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Hecklers, Macho, Critics, Wimps, Manhood, The Good Men Project, The Boston Globe, Video, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

From the very beginning, I said that ten percent of men will "get" the Good Men Project right away, ten percent will never get it, and eighty percent will need convincing.

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UMass Rapist Went Unpunished (UPDATED)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, The Northeast, Rape, The Boston Globe, College News

A University of Massachusetts-Amherst student who confessed to raping a woman was allowed to continue to live and study at school after receiving a wa...

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A Defining Moment in the History of Civil Rights

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Disorderly Conduct, African-American Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Harvard University, Reggie Lewis, Sgt. James Crowley, President Barack Obama, The Boston Globe, Harvard Police, Cambridge Massachusetts, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, The White House, Politics News
Gary S. Chafetz

Who are the beneficiaries of what appears to be the teapot tempest over the recent arrest of an African-American man in The People's Republic of Cambr...

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Attention Mr. Geffen

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Journalism, David Geffen, Craig's List, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Newspapers, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I read in a magazine someplace that you were interested in saving the New York Times. I think it's a terrific idea. I have one other idea for you.

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