Boston – Mass AG Healey Joins States in Opposing Tribune-Sinclair Media Merger
Urges FCC to Reject Massive Merger that Will Decrease Consumer Choices and Diverse Media Voices Boston — Attorney General Maura Healey today joined with attorneys general from Illinois, Maryland and Rhode Island in filing comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opposing the proposed merger between the Tribune Media Company and Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. The Tribune/Sinclair merger would create the largest television broadcast company in the country that would own or operate more than 200 stations nationwide with the ability to reach more than 70 percent of television households, far above the statutory limits. In the comments, submitted today to the FCC, AG Healey…
MEDIA GAMBLE – Online Gambling AG Office Insider hired by Boston Globe Media
Boston, MA: Attorney Dan Krockmalnic will join Red Sox owner John Henry's Fenway Sports Group - Boston Globe Media Company at the end of October of 2017. Krockmalnic will act as new General Counsel at the Boston Globe as Maura McAuliffe has chosen to step into a part-time role. Attorney Dan Krockmalnic was most recently Assistant Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office where he focused on consumer protection cases. Krockmalnic began his career at the law firm of Ropes & Gray. Share More: RECENT NEWS: AG not sold on online gambling Online gambling requires similar oversight to daily…
The rise and fall of Digital First; or, how to get rich plundering newspapers
by Dan Kennedy Boston, MA: The Nation recently published a splendid takedown of Randall Smith, a little-known Wall Street tycoon whose avarice has hollowed out daily newspapers from coast to coast. By “gutting” his papers, Julie Reynolds reports, Smith was able to amass the $57 million he needed to buy 16 mansions in Palm Beach, Florida. “Don’t just blame the Internet for journalism’s decline,” she writes. “Old-fashioned capitalist greed also strangles newspapers.” The name of Smith’s newspaper empire is Digital First Media, an ironic moniker for an enterprise dedicated to the proposition that every last penny should be squeezed out of the shrinking print…
John Henry’s Globe Disaster
via Boston Business Journal - Amid The Boston Globe’s efforts to overcome the embarrassing printing problems that have plagued it for the past three months are growing signs of employee anger aimed at top management. An anonymous flyer that’s reportedly been seen around the Globe’s offices in recent weeks (a copy of which was sent to the Business Journal) calls out Boston Globe Media owner John Henry by name and urges employees to stop him from “destroying” the daily newspaper and its workers. “After a series of missteps since acquiring the Boston Globe, a desperate John Henry is resorting to anti-worker tactics and now the company is…
John Hancock signed First Amendment Rights Questioned as Media and Cameras Blocked from Bandstand Area of Boston “Free Speech Rally”
via Boston Strong - John Hancock signed First Amendment Rights Questioned as Media and Cameras Blocked from Bandstand Area of “Free Speech Rally” – Massive Counter Protests Overwhelm Boston ‘Free Speech Rally’ On Common
John Henry’s Red Sox and Boston Globe Owner Printing Fake News on President Trump
Trenton, NJ: by Bill Spadea, NJ Radio - Fake news alert! The President is not on vacation! He’s out of the White House for 17 days, that’s true. But negotiating sanctions and economic policy while displaced from the HVAC work being done at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is certainly not a vacation. The Boston Globe thought to run a pleasant article about the President’s so-called vacation and targeted the location as if that would be the last place on earth that anyone would take a vacation. Let’s just take at face value the premise that this is a vacation, which it clearly is not.…
NJ 101.5 RADIO Dennis Malloy — ” Hey Boston Globe…go (bleep) yourself “
Trenton, NJ: - The headline of a recent Boston Globe article reads “Forget scenic traditions — Trump vacations in the land of spray tans.” Never mind that they reduce a proud population of nearly 9 million people to the nonsense of a reality show that actually featured people from other states. These two geniuses — no doubt, open-minded, tolerant reporters from this elitist publication — offended a group that’s safe for these cowards to offend. We’re not a religious, ethnic or racial group, but 9 million people nonetheless, who deserve not to be slandered just because you try so “wicked haahd” to…
Billionaire Henry’s Failing Boston Globe Sustainability, New CEO Leaves. Staff Moved to Safer Offices from Contaminated Industrial Site
Boston, MA: Boston Globe Media CEO Doug Franklin is stepping down a half year after being hired by sports entertainment billionaire John Henry. Franklin cited differences with sports owner John Henry on "how to strategically achieve (the company's) financial sustainability." Franklin replaced CEO Mike Sheehan who had a 2 year agreement with Henry. Sheehan was hired following the closure of The One Fund Boston, which Sheehan, then President of Hill Holiday advertising, and John Gallagher, President John Hancock Boston, registered. John Henry bought the Boston Globe Dorchester, MA. seriously contaminated land and iconic newspaper industrial site in 2014 from the from Saturday Night…
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If you’re thinking you’d love to be a photojournalist, ask yourself if you would have choked ?
This is what Pulitzers are made of If you're thinking you'd love to be a photojournalist, ask yourself if you would have choked That's the advice Robert Scheer, photojournalist for the Indianapolis Star, gives after reading AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici's harrowing account of yesterday's assassination attempt of Russia's ambadassor to Turkey. Ozbilici captured the horrific event on camera, stating simply—and badassedly— "I composed myself enough to shoot pictures." AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici continued his work in the face of this. — Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) December 19, 2016 "Burhan Ozbilici, @AP photographer who saw this go down and lifted camera to make pictures, is a hero," …
Sons of the Revolution – Honor the Position of the President
Trenton, NJ: Sons of the Revolution General President Hon. R. Mitchell Bush delivers heartfelt Patriots speech on President's Day. Patriots Parade through Trenton New Jersey, pray and honor Presidents Day The Old Barracks Fifes and Drums perform America the Beautiful at St. Michael's Church Washington's birthday Commemoration. View News Video Patriots Strong on Channel:
NJ Gov Chris Christie Media Actions
MEDIA ACTIONS - Governor Chris Christie talks to NY NJ and Philadelphia Media at the Statehouse Rotunda. View Video on Channel: State House News
Pipeline Riot charges against award-winning journalist dropped
North Dakota judge today refused to authorize riot charges against award-winning journalist Amy Goodman for her reporting on an attack against Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters. “This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access pipeline,” said Goodman. "We will continue to report on this epic struggle of Native Americans and their non-Native allies taking on the fossil fuel industry and an increasingly militarized police in this time when climate change threatens the planet." Share More: