2001
ARCHIVES
By Dan Kennedy
Senior writer/media critic
The Boston
Phoenix
Last
updated on December 28,
2001
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December 28
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Beef stew
Mad-cow disease could be much ado about nothing -- or a terrifying
threat to our food supply. It's time for the media to take another look.
December 26
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Tough times for the punditocracy.
December 21
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Harrington's sleazy deal to sell the Sox stains the Boston
Globe.
December 20
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Gender and journalism on PBS.
THIS
JUST IN: Tale of the toons
Double trouble for Jane and Jim.
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: For sale
Pat Purcell eyes North Shore dailies.
December 19
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Mumia lives! Now let him disappear.
December 17
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
End game for Mr. Speaker?
December 13
INSIDE
BASEBALL
(with Seth Gitell)
The sale of the Red Sox is a closely held game of money, media, and
influence. Who loses? Us, of course.
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
Who's got the beat on the Big Dig?
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
The return of Michael Holley.
December 12
THIS
JUST IN: Media
For Al Giordano, a victory and a precedent.
December 10
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Reich should run -- as an independent.
December 6
DON'T
QUOTE ME: The Baron of
Morrissey Boulevard
Boston Globe editor Marty Baron talks about
his job, the
war on terrorism, and - oh, yes - the New York Times Company's interest
in a certain baseball team. Plus, a
Q&A with Baron.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Watch for the rising New York Sun.
December 5
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
E-publishing, beyond the Web.
December 4
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
An American Talib's 'youthful indiscretion.'
November 29
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Public radio
and cold cash
Now, more than ever, we need NPR. The question is, who pays?
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
The gang that couldn't vote straight.
November 26
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Another Scheer distortion.
November 21
TAKING
LIBERTIES
A Phoenix roundtable on freedom in the age of
terrorism.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
For reporters, danger and death in Afghanistan.
THE
BEST: Local heroes
Juliette Kayyem.
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's jolt
Judicial overreach at Logan Airport.
November 19
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Can CNN be saved?
November 15
THIS
JUST IN: Drugs and terror
Al Giordano to speak at BU.
November 14
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Tangled up in Blue.
November 12
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Today's Jolt
Bush wins! Gore would have won! We lose!
November 8
DON'T
QUOTE ME: News from the
back burner
Five important stories pushed to the margins by the terrorism-obsessed
media.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
The indispensable Seymour Hersh.
November 7
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Jolt
The selling of Ashleigh Banfield.
November 5
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Jolt
The Episcopal bishops' misguided protest.
November 2
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Jolt
A bright, shiny day for Mr. Bill.
November 1
POSTCARDS
FROM THE NEW NEW
ECONOMY
Greetings from the land of high anxiety and wavering expectations.
THIS
JUST IN: Collateral damage
Life after Polaroid.
October 29
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: The daily jolt
This time, no instant gratification.
October 25
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Money pit
Since September 11, news organizations have been spending more and
earning less. Will profit-obsessed Wall Street slam on the brakes?
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Silent treatment on the Florida recount.
October 24
THIS
JUST IN: Wavelengths
Public radio, private pressures.
October 18
'LIBERAL':
NO LONGER A DIRTY
WORD
Liberal support of the war on terrorism caps a long journey back to a
new mainstream.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
A dispute over the Bulger connection.
October 11
DON'T
QUOTE ME
Beyond TV, some sobering realities.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Judge urges city to reconsider news-box ban.
October 4
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Pens and swords
In covering the war on terrorism, the media must contend with military
censorship, the public's distrust &emdash; and their own
timidity.
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
Standard delivery.
October 3
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
A striking instant book on the September 11 disaster.
September 27
HOW THE TERRORIST CRISIS THREATENS
OUR PERSONAL
LIBERTIES
(with Harvey
Silverglate)
As we wrap ourselves in the flag, let's not forget to cling tightly to
the Bill of Rights. Plus, sidebar: "Two
Cases in Point."
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Did the White House give the Taliban $43 million?
September 20
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
Harvard's Michael Ignatieff explores the historical roots of terrorism.
September 19
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Excellence, and grace, under pressure.
September 18
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
A muted New Yorker addresses the tragedy.
September 17
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Dick Cheney
The man in the black suit.
Sepember 13
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Partners in
politics
Despite her lackluster campaign, Cheryl Jacques helped establish a
positive image of gay and lesbian family life.
September 12
THE
END OF DECADENCE
Can the media -- and the rest of us -- adjust to a frightening new
world?
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
The Herald scores a big scoop.
September 11
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: Media
Covering the horror.
September 5
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Publishers fight Back Bay news-box ban.
August 30
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Culture warrior
David McCullough's stately John Adams prompts a
backlash -- and
a fascinating debate over the limits of character.
August 23
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Fangs a lot
The Boston Globe may do away with the ombudsman.
What it should
do is turn the post into a truly independent watchdog.
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
Reporter suspended over Gloucester incident.
August 9
WHERE
THE BOYS ARE
One year after their gay ban was affirmed, the Boy Scouts are slowly
shaking off their homophobic ways.
August 2
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Weird science
Bush's rejection of Kyoto rests on three legs: Energy-industry
interests, the conservative media &emdash; and scientists who
contend that global warming doesn't really exist.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Baron seeks "unpredictability" and "edginess."
July 26
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Getting even
A new book on Tina Brown and Harry Evans is a down-and-dirty,
delightfully bitchy summer read. But don't write off Tina just yet.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
This time, it's really over
July 19
GOODBYE
TO ALL THAT
Marty Baron's arrival at the Boston Globe marks not
just the
end of the Matt Storin era, but of the Tom Winship era as well.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
An embargo on the public interest.
THIS
JUST IN: Peer praise
Three wins from AAN.
July 12
CELLULAR
DIVISION
What Bush doesn't want to use federal funds for embryonic-stem-cell
research -- and why he should.
July 5
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Curious George
Gilder's Spectator trades nutty right-wing
scandal-mongering
for nutty right-wing economics. Plus, women in radio, and freelance
blues.
July 2
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
A new era at 135 Morrissey Boulevard. (With Seth Gitell.)
June 28
THE
FOURTH ANNUAL MUZZLE AWARDS
Ten who undermined freedom of speech and personal liberties.
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
Few big names take buyout.
June 21
THIS
JUST IN: Media
The Globe and the greens.
June 14
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Hot Prospect
The 11-year-old liberal magazine seeks to raise its
profile
by shifting its base from Boston to DC and bringing in a talented new
editor.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
AlterNet.org relaunches; Cullen returns; Malone Connolly departs.
June 13
THIS
JUST IN: The last bark?
Globe may fold its Sunday bulldog edition.
June 7
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Squeezing the Globe
The New York Times Company is certainly to blame. The
bigger
villain, though, is Wall Street and its unrealistic profit demands.
THIS
JUST IN: Oops
Following up the follow-up.
May 31
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Gay unions and the wedding pages.
THIS
JUST IN: Follow-up
The Herald and Robert Brustein.
May 24
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Bush's free
ride
From the attack dogs of the Clinton era to the lap dogs of today, the
White House press corps sure isn't what it used to be.
May 18
WEB
EXTRA: Will's way
Globe legend McDonough wants to retire -- and
keep his
column.
May 17
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Truth and
consequences
If we execute Timothy McVeigh, questions about the Oklahoma City
bombing will go forever unanswered.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Samizdat from campaign 2000.
May 16
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
The Sunday paper gets smaller.
May 10
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Killing
Timothy McVeigh
The First Amendment requires it and our conscience demands it:
Televising executions is the right thing to do.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Metro battles the T; Barnicle's caught;
Flynn's hot.
May 4
THIS
JUST IN: Web extra
Tide of punditry turns against Kerrey.
May 3
BOB
KERREY'S WAR
Making sense of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in a small
Vietnamese village 32 years ago.
April 26
BOBOS
IN RADIOLAND
The battle over The Connection illuminates what
public radio
has become: privatized, high-quality programming aimed at the affluent,
well-educated elite.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Five years of nonpartisan wonkery.
April 18
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Pulitzer notes
For the Globe, good news during a time of financial
constraint.
Plus, a thoughtful voice on gay marriage, and the Wall Street
Journal's eloquent contrarian.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Objective by day, attack dog by night.
April 12
DON'T
QUOTE ME: The Internet
on trial
The war on drugs, a powerful Mexican banker, and a libel suit add up to
a big threat to independent online journalism. Plus, a
conversation
with Narco News Bulletin impresario Al
Giordano.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Giving new voice to some not-so-obvious truths.
April 10
WEB
EXTRA: Freedom to speak
A proposal to ban news boxes from the Back Bay would
seriously harm the First Amendment right to be heard.
April 5
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Hush-hush
In its war of words with WEEI, the Globe learns
that silence
isn't necessarily golden.
RED
SOX PREVIEW: Trial by press
The 'Knights of the Keyboard' have always been part of
what
makes Red Sox baseball so passionate, so vicious -- and so much fun.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Silent spring for two local papers.
March 29
DON'T
QUOTE ME: The cult of
Greenspan
Despite growing criticism, media-driven faith in the Fed chairman
remains pervasive. This time, though, he just may be out of miracles.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
A Globe critic's classical bind.
THIS
JUST IN: Radio
A quarter-century of Brudnoy.
March 28
THIS
JUST IN: As the Globe
turns
McNamara speaks out after column is killed.
March 23
WEB
EXTRA: Media
Dennis & Callahan & Barnicle & Oliphant.
March 22
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Surprise! Rational talk about reparations.
March 15
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Talk is cheap
When news isn't happening, the all-news cable channels are yapping. But
why do they have to be so dumb?
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Lydon to make the freelance connection.
WEB
EXTRA: Disconnection update
Paging Nina Totenberg.
March 8
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Kissinger
accused
Journalist Christopher Hitchens reminds us once again of the horrors
that Henry wrought in Chile, Cambodia, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Jay Severin, Joan Vennochi -- and Eminem.
THIS
JUST IN: Disconnection
update
It's over -- unless it isn't.
February 28
DON'T
QUOTE ME: In cold type II
Further (and second) thoughts on coverage of the Dartmouth College
murders. (Updated for the print version.)
THIS
JUST IN: Talking points
Bush ends his stealth presidency.
February 23
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: In cold type II
Further (and second) thoughts on coverage of the Dartmouth College
murders.
February 22
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Code of silence
A federal appeals court ruling that muzzles judges will harm the
public's right to know -- and, in turn, will undermine public
confidence in the judicial system.
THIS
JUST IN: Lydon and WBUR
Can this marriage be saved?
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Sex, violence, and the cultural left.
February 21
THE
DARTMOUTH MURDERS: In cold
type
Behind the Globe's front-page mea culpa; the Herald
overhypes a theory.
February 15
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Jane's
defense, weakly
Can the most unpopular politician in the state change her media image?
It won't be easy. But observers say it's not impossible, either.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
NewYorker.com makes a low-key debut.
THIS
JUST IN: Good for us
The Phoenix cleans up in the annual New England
Press
Association Awards.
February 8
DON'T
QUOTE ME: How Tip saved
the Globe
O'Neill's machinations helped bring down the old Herald
-- and won him a powerful media friend.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
At Community Newspapers, hopes of upsizing.
THIS
JUST IN: Whoops!
Off the record and on the Web
February 1
EUGENE
RIVERS'S MOMENT
Under fire for challenging Jesse Jackson, the street minister says the
real challenge is to work with the Bushies in crafting a new,
post-civil-rights agenda.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
The Clintons: guilty as charged, even when they're not.
January 31
WEB
EXTRA: D-Day at Fidelity
Community Newspaper owner-to-be Pat Purcell forces some big-name
departures -- and creates a major new position for one of his top
Herald editors.
January 25
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Raging Bill
The Microsoft antitrust case was a metaphor for the '90s. Or, what do
Bill Gates, O.J. Simpson, and Bill Clinton have in common?
THIS
JUST IN: Media
The Globe moves to halt its Sunday slide.
January 18
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Tight fit
Pat Purcell struggles to close his $150 million deal with Fidelity.
Plus, how a trigger-happy ex-legislator slid by the media, and
Charlestown's grievance against the Globe.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Why Bush can't talk.
January 11
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Bye, George
Despite rising circulation, the plug is finally pulled
on
John Kennedy's confused magazine. Plus, the Globe
gets an op-ed
shuffle, and a Tailwind blows into Harvard Square.
THIS
JUST IN: Media
This week's obligatory Jeff Jacoby item.
THIS
JUST IN: Banned in Boston
The Gardner Museum drops an inconvenient book.
January 4
DON'T
QUOTE ME: Time to get
real
The Florida-recount story proved the public has a taste for substance.
But will the media follow through?
THIS
JUST IN: Media
Jacoby, Begala, and Barnicle: together at last.
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