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Gingrich loses the media primary
My latest for the Huffington Post: Is it over? A better way of putting it: Do the media want it to be over? The Florida Republican primary ended last night with dual scenes reminiscent of campaigns...
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Charges, countercharges and the truth
Paul Ryan This commentary has also been published at the Huffington Post. The general-election campaign finally, definitively got under way on Tuesday, when Mitt Romney won Republican primaries in...
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The humiliation of Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has written almost exactly what I was thinking regarding U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and her exaggerated (and possibly non-existent)...
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The Newseum caves in on reporters’ access
Yes, that’s the First Amendment carved onto the vertical slate in front of the Newseum. For many of us, it began with a tweet Thursday morning from Boston Globe editor Marty Baron: [blackbirdpie...
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Obama changes the media narrative — in Romney’s favor
In my latest for the Huffington Post, I argue that, contrary to what Obama supporters will tell you, the president’s poor performance in Wednesday’s debate will matter a great deal in the days ahead....
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At veep debate, reviving a $5 trillion tax-cut argument
In my latest for the Huffington Post, I argue that the vice-presidential debate showed President Obama was right when he accused Mitt Romney of supporting a $5 trillion tax cut that would mainly...
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New York Times repeats a $5 trillion falsehood
This is pretty bad. In a profile of Stephanie Cutter, President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, the New York Times repeats a demonstrably false allegation advanced by Paul Ryan and others. Times...
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Obama shakes up the media dynamic in his favor
President Barack Obama’s commanding performance in the third and final debate mattered to the viewers at home, of course. But as we will see in the days ahead, it will matter even more in setting the...
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Andrew Solomon, dwarfism and my daughter
One day in the summer of 2003 I found myself in a hotel lobby, engaged in an intense conversation with Andrew Solomon. His book on depression, “The Noonday Demon,” had won the National Book Award. Now...
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WTKK and the ongoing collapse of corporate radio
This commentary was previously published by the Huffington Post. Update: I’ll be on New England Cable News on Friday at 7:15 a.m. to talk about WTKK and the future of radio. At 10 a.m. on Wednesday,...
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Rory O’Connor reviews “The Wired City”
Veteran progressive journalist Rory O’Connor has written a favorable review of “The Wired City” for the Huffington Post. He writes: When we as a democratic society are at what Kennedy accurately calls...
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A new scandal worthy of our outrage
The problem with getting all worked up over the IRS scandal is that we don’t have any outrage left over for the stories that really matter. Tonight we learn that President Obama’s Justice Department...
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How the IRS is killing nonprofit media
This article appeared earlier at The Huffington Post. Outrage over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party and other right-wing groups continues to boil — yet a potentially more...
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Why the Boy Scouts’ half-measure won’t hold
This commentary appeared earlier at The Huffington Post. The compromise announced by the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday is untenable. And that is precisely why it’s good news. More than 60 percent...
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Edward Snowden and the peril facing journalism
Edward Snowden This commentary was published earlier at The Huffington Post. The editors of The New York Times appear to have forgotten an important principle: the First Amendment is for all of us, and...
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Some pressing questions for John Henry
This commentary was published earlier at The Huffington Post and at WGBH News . The speculation had been building since Wednesday, when The Boston Globe reported that Red Sox principal owner John Henry...
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What happened at The Guardian could happen here
Charles Evans Hughes This commentary was first published at The Huffington Post. As you have no doubt already heard, Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, wrote on Monday that British security...
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Bezos voices skepticism on paywalls, advertising
Jeff Bezos Two quick takeaways from Jeff Bezos’ interview with The Washington Post, his first since announcing last month that he would purchase the paper for $250 million: 1. He sounds like an...
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Four takeaways from new owner John Henry’s message to readers of The Boston...
John Henry in October 2007 This article was published earlier in the Nieman Journalism Lab and The Huffington Post. John Henry’s nearly 2,900-word message to readers of The Boston Globe could have been...
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Michael Calderone on what to expect from Carolyn Ryan
One of the first media pieces I ever wrote for The Boston Phoenix, in the mid-1990s, was on the shrinking Statehouse press corps. Among those I interviewed was a young reporter for The Patriot Ledger...
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