Mainstream Media

DePetro’s Petard

By Marc Comtois | August 16, 2012 |

You’d have to be living under a rock around here if you’re not aware of the accusations of sexual harassment that have been leveled against John DePetro by WPRO co-worker Dee DeQuattro (the complaint can be found here). Yesterday DePetro talked to RI Future’s Bob Plain (who also used to work for WPRO) in an…

10 News Conference – Justin and RIFuture’s Bob Plain

By Justin Katz | August 10, 2012 |

Jim Taricani invited me and RIFuture.org owner/editor Bob Plain to sit in for 10 News Conference, this morning. The topics leaned more toward politics than policy, but we bloggers did manage to pull the conversation toward political philosophy a bit. Specifically, we discussed economic development, the RI economy, the Congressional district 1 race, and the…

Mancession Recovery… Sexist!

By Justin Katz | July 25, 2012 |

In a strong indication that, among journalistic practitioners, the biased media narrative is more a matter of intellectual laziness than cultural duplicity, the latest canned story, by Los Angeles Times reporter Don Lee, is that workplace discrimination is landing men the great majority of “newly created” jobs: Since the recession ended in June 2009, men…

Jon Stewart Thoroughly Rips Apart the Brian Ross Incident

By Monique Chartier | July 24, 2012 |

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Woonsocket Call Reverts Almost Entirely to Paper Paper

By Monique Chartier | July 3, 2012 |

You used to be able to read the Woonsocket Call on-line. Sometime in the last ten days, however, that changed. Now, when you click on an article, you get only the first paragraph or two followed by a non-clickable directive. Example below from today’s (I think) paper. WOONSOCKET — After receiving a quarter of its…

Anchor Rising Readers Poll Winners!

By Marc Comtois | June 26, 2012 |

As Matt Allen tweeted me last week, “Well isn’t this fun.” And yes it was! Thanks to all who voted and especially thanks to the local media who participated in “electronic canvassing” for our scientific bragging-rights Anchor Rising Readers Poll covering the Local RI Media. In addition to bragging rights, every winner can download a…

Anchor Rising Readers Poll: All In One

By Marc Comtois | June 24, 2012 |

NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 Thanks to all who have voted so far in the Anchor Rising Readers Poll! There are still a couple days left, so for the sake of convenience I’ve compiled all the questions together in one post. Read on “after the jump” to see the current results and vote in categories…

Anchor Rising Readers Poll: Favorite Local Radio News-Info/Business/Lifestyle/Advice Talk Show?

By Marc Comtois | June 23, 2012 |

NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fifth and final “question” in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Radio News/Info/Advice/Lifestyle type talk shows. As I looked for “candidates”, I discovered that there was such a broad array of shows that I broke them up into a few categories. Here are the groups with choices (listed…

Anchor Rising Readers Poll: Favorite Local Media Investigative Team

By Marc Comtois | June 22, 2012 |

NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The fourth question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Media Investigative Team. Caveats: 1) had to have statewide coverage; 2) couldn’t be from an overtly partisan outlet or advocacy group (that eliminates us at AR as well as folks like RI Future’s Bob Plain or that guy Justin…

Anchor Rising Readers Poll: Favorite Local Electronic Media News Team

By Marc Comtois | June 21, 2012 |

NB: THIS POLL CLOSED 6/26/2012 The third question in our Readers Poll deals with favorite Local Electronic Media News Team.* The requirements for being put on this list were: 1) Had to Rhode Island based; 2) Had to provide local news coverage w/actual in-the-field reporters.** 3) Had to be non-partisan (so no RIFuture or Ocean…

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