A four-month-old opinion piece published in CommonWealth is igniting fresh controversy. On Friday, a group of minority, union, and liberal organizing groups – including the Boston chapter of the NAACP, Neighbor to Neighbor, City Life/Vida Urbana, Community Labor United, and others — wrote an open letter calling on Pioneer Institute senior fellow Charles Chieppo to […]
Media and Journalism
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Op-ed on union power decried as ‘racist’
A FOUR-MONTH-OLD opinion piece published in CommonWealth is igniting fresh controversy. On Friday, a group of minority, union, and liberal organizing groups – including the Boston chapter of the NAACP, Neighbor to Neighbor, City Life/Vida Urbana, Community Labor United, and others — wrote an open letter calling on Pioneer Institute senior fellow Charles Chieppo to resign. […]
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One way of dealing with bad PR
DR. ELAD ANTER, or someone impersonating him, tried to make links to a state medical board disciplinary action against him and a CommonWealth news story about that action disappear from the internet. The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine late last year disciplined Anter, a former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center cardiologist, for losing his […]
Posted inOpinion
Ex-reporter transitions to political partisan
A YEAR AGO, I was a nonpartisan political reporter in Massachusetts, happy to give people from either side of the spectrum due credit or due comeuppance. No longer. Now I am a full partisan in a battleground state. I display a Biden-Harris sign in our window. I proudly wear my Biden-Harris T-shirt. I have made […]
Posted inThe Download
Newspaper endorsements becoming scarce
Political endorsements, once considered part of every newspaper’s job description, are becoming a rarity. In Massachusetts, we’re one week away from primary day and many people have already voted by mail. Yet a search of newspaper websites indicates most publications haven’t endorsed anyone in their coverage areas. That includes the Gannett chain, which includes the […]
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Newspaper endorsements becoming scarce
Political endorsements, once considered part of every newspaper’s job description, are becoming a rarity. In Massachusetts, we’re one week away from primary day and many people have already voted by mail. Yet a search of newspaper websites indicates most publications haven’t endorsed anyone in their coverage areas. That includes the Gannett chain, which includes the […]
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Amendment creating state journalism commission passes
AN AMENDMENT CALLING for a study of the rapidly shrinking landscape of local news in Massachusetts passed the House Tuesday night as part of an economic development bill and now heads to the Senate for action. The amendment, patterned after a bill filed by Rep. Lori Ehrlich of Marblehead, would create the Commission to Study Journalism […]
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Amendment creating state journalism commission passes
An amendment calling for a study of the rapidly shrinking landscape of local news in Massachusetts passed the House Tuesday night as part of an economic development bill and now heads to the Senate for action. The amendment, patterned after a bill filed by Rep. Lori Ehrlich of Marblehead, would create the Commission to Study […]
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As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity
WHEN RICK HOLMES RETIRED as the opinion editor at the MetroWest Daily News in 2017, he was worried about the decline in journalism and what it would mean for local communities. CommonWealth Magazine · As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity “The local paper introduces us to our neighbors. It’s a mirror, through which […]
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As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity
When Rick Holmes retired as the opinion editor at the MetroWest Daily News in 2017, he was worried about the decline in journalism and what it would mean for local communities. CommonWealth Magazine · As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity “The local paper introduces us to our neighbors. It’s a mirror, through […]