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Tell Congress to Go To Hell With their Current Health Reform

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Phoenix - By Rob Kall - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer "I know some of my words are not nice-- crude, vulgar-- but if you're not thinking something like them, you don't get it. And if you have been thinking them, but don't want to say them, send your legislator my article."

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After Ted

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By David S. Bernstein - Aug. 27 (News Analysis) - The death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy early Wednesday morning brings to a close the life and legendary career of one of Massachusetts's greatest political figures. It also hastens the issue of succession to the seat he has held since he was elected in 1962, a topic that has gripped the state's political class since Kennedy's brain tumor was discovered more than a year ago.

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Sarah, Inc.

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By David S. Bernstein - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - When earlier this month Sarah Palin abruptly announced her intention to resign as governor of Alaska — barely midway through her four-year term — the political punditry was left puzzling over what she could possibly do next. If Palin was not in office, nor actively campaigning for election, how could she remain relevant, influential, and, of course, paid?

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School politics

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Phoenix - Feb. 06 (Editorial) - Educating the next generation of children is about nothing if not the future. Families project their hopes and dreams for a better life onto their kids. And though Boston has become a city where the poor and the working class — many of them immigrants — outnumber the affluent and the middle class, it is white-collar aspirations rather than blue-collar realities that animate school concerns.

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Speak no evil?

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Phoenix - By Adam Reilly - Jan. 16 (News Analysis) - "If somebody tried to assassinate Obama," says Lewis, "and upon further examination it turned out that they were a regular listener to Sean Hannity [of Premier Radio, ABC Radio, and Fox News] — and decided, on the basis of Hannity's many broadcasts, that Obama was trying to destroy the United States — would that justify shutting Hannity down and curbing speech in some way? It's hard to say . . . but if it had that effect, surely the imminence requirement is at least partially met."

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Toxic talk: Hating Obama

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Phoenix - By Adam Reilly - Jan. 15 (News Analysis) - Given the manifold wellsprings of dislike and distrust for Obama, it might have been inevitable that things got as ugly as they did. Still, what made this festering animus so dismaying — apart from what it revealed about the deep recesses of our political id — is that it jeopardized Obama's promise as a political unifier.... In recent weeks, though, there's been a distinct drop-off in repugnant anti-Obama invective — in the conservative press, among the general public, even among white-supremacists.

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Leggo my ego!

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Adam Reilly - Jul. 31 (News Analysis) - The McCain campaign and the Republican Party have every reason to push the Obama-as-narcissist theme.... But that's exactly why the press should be very careful about joining the GOP chorus.... Throw in the race-baiting component, and the narcissism/ egotism/ arrogance trope could end up making the press's shameful slander of Al Gore in 2000 look, in retrospect, like Pulitzer bait.

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O's got a TV eye on you

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Steven Stark - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - With his decision to forgo public funding, Barack Obama can raise as much as he wants, giving him a huge financial advantage in the fall campaign. If he spends that cash on organization, registration, and get-out-the-vote efforts, he will absolutely get his money's worth. But if he spends a major portion of it on television advertising, he will only be doing John McCain a favor.

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The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Dan Kennedy - Jun. 26 (Opinion) - The great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff once said that our sex drive pales in comparison with our urge to censor. It's an urge that is played out in places high and low, encompassing both the serious and the absurd. Military veterans protesting the war are arrested in Boston and charged with disturbing the peace. An anti-abortion-rights activist in Maine borrows sex-education books from public libraries and refuses to return them. A legislative leader in Rhode Island -- the head of John McCain's presidential campaign in that state -- compares anonymous critics to "terrorists," and helps kill a proposal aimed at guaranteeing their First Amendment rights.

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Issues, shmissues

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Steven Stark - May. 23 (Special Report) - Why can't we have a "civilized" discussion of the issues? Part of it is because the voters are smarter than that. They know that politicians will say pretty much anything to get elected, and they also know that no one can foresee the issues a president will have to confront. So, they focus on what some critics might call "small issues" but others might define as the key issue of "character," since in the end, that's what really counts.

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Straight talk

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Adam Reilly - May. 14 (News Analysis) - it's time to start covering McCain again -- not by trotting out the usual war-hero-turned-blunt-maverick narrative, but by taking a hard look at the strengths and weaknesses he'd bring to the presidency. Of course, McCain has a well-documented knack for charming the press into submission. So here, for the men and women who'll be spending long hours on the Straight Talk Express, is a handy list of 10 McCain stories worth pursuing over the next few months:

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Was It All a Dream?

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Phoenix - By David S. Bernstein - Dec. 20 (News Report) - while the late George W. Romney, a four-term governor of Michigan, can lay claim to a strong record on civil rights, the Phoenix can find no evidence that the senior Romney actually marched with King, nor anything in the public record suggesting that he ever claimed to do so.

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Highway robbery

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Dan Kennedy - Oct. 04 (News Analysis) - NewsTrust encourages participants to rate news stories, media outlets, and even one other. Unlike the more popular Digg or Reddit, which asks users only if they like or dislike a particular story, NewsTrust users are presented with a wide range of criteria, including thoroughness, fairness, and sourcing. It's the classic "wisdom of the crowd" notion -- the best and most important stories should rise to the top, regardless of whether they appeared in the mainstream media, on an alternative website, or in a blog.

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Lapdog, meet watchdog

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By Adam Reilly - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Hating the media has long been a popular pastime. But after the invasion of Iraq four years ago, anti-press animus reached a new level of intensity on the left. As weapons of mass destruction failed to materialize and the country began disintegrating, a widespread conviction developed that the press had failed to do its due pre-war diligence. Here's how Michael Massing put it in the February 26, 2004, New York Review of Books: In recent months, US news organizations have rushed to expose the Bush Administration's pre-war failings on Iraq. . . . [O]ne is tempted to ask, where were you all before the war? Why didn't we learn about these deceptions and concealments in the months when the administration was pressing its case for regime change -- when, in short, it might have made a difference? Two years on, Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, made a similar argument in even harsher terms in Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press). Spooked by charges of liberal bias, Boehlert argued, the press before the war -- "timid, deferential, unsure, cautious, and often intentionally unthinking -- came as close as possible to abdicating its reason for existing in the first place, which is to accurately inform citizens, particularly during times of great national interest."

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