Bill sponsor Malik more unbiased than WPRO news
Here’s an interesting instance of media bias: a WPRO preview story on a proposal to eliminate the state sales tax was less balanced than an op/ed in the Fall River Herald News written by the bill’s sponsor, Jan Malik. The WPRO report uses an interview between conservative talk show host Matt Allen, a supporter of [...]
Conservative Hate Radio Falls Out Of Fashion
Will Rhode Island soon hear a kinder, gentler WPRO? Probably not, but Lew Dickey, CEO of WPRO’s Atlanta-based parent company Cumulus, is hinting that we might start hearing less about Republican politics and more about the Red Sox baseball. “We’re seeing a shift in spoken word radio from political-based talk over to sports,” Dickey told [...]
RIPR Should Hire Andrew Gobeil To Do Talk Radio
Rhode Island Public Radio should hire Andrew Gobeil to host a moderate and fair call-in talk radio show. The Ocean State could really use this. I haven’t spoken to either party about about this idea, but it sure seems to be a no-brainer to me. RIPR is a great young radio station in need of [...]
GoLocal Hires Paul J. Spetrini from Standard Times
RI Future would like to extend a big giant progressive welcome to Paul J. Spetrini, the new news editor at GoLocalProv. The Providence native who grew up on Atwells Avenue, comes to the Capital City journalism scene after serving as the editor of the Standard Times, the North Kingstown weekly paper owned by Southern Rhode [...]
Web Editor Dee DeQuattro Is Leaving WPRO for ABC6
WPRO digital reporter Dee DeQuattro is leaving the station she is suing for a new job on December 21. On January 2, she starts as the assignment editor for ABC 6 and ABC6.com. She’ll also do a morning TV spot and keep her own political blog in her new position. “I’m excited to pursue a [...]
Is Ted Nesi Biased on Pension Reform?
Ted Nesi is easily the most knowledgeable and well-respected local reporter on the pension beat. As such, it’s not easy to call him out for what I think is some bias in his pension reporting as of late. Today on Twitter I asked him why he didn’t include either Angel Taveras or Ernie Almonte’s perspective [...]
The Media-Audience Feedback Loop
A couple weeks ago, I said that the media rewards personal attacks with coverage. Ted Nesi, of WPRI fame, responded with a quick tweet that there’s an audience that rewards personal attacks. Essentially, the media picks up personal political attacks because it knows that those attacks bring in eyeballs, which means ad revenue. This is [...]
Projo Misses News at Doherty, Brown Event
So, if you still have doubts that the ProJo editorial board is the tail wagging the newsroom’s dog; those fears should be laid to rest after the Newspaper Spin Cycle of record’s coverage of the Brendan Doherty event at Metacomet Country Club in East Providence. Journal scribe Phil Marcelo, covered all the political details about [...]
Matt Jerzyk and the Early Days of RI Future
The Providence Phoenix has given RI Future great press as of late. Last week, the profiled me as the new owner of this progressive news website and this week they profile Matt Jerzyk, a senior policy adviser to Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and the founding father of RI Future whom they dub the state’s “blogfather.” [...]
Local Hero: PVD Phoenix Recognizes Plain, RI Future
The Providence Phoenix wrote a really nice article about me and RI Future this week for its annual “Local Heroes” feature, and I thought it was worth sharing with you all, our loyal readers. Phoenix editor David Scharfenberg picked up on a really important point, I think, namely that, in RI Future is pretty much [...]
Laid Off: A 21st Century Career in Print Journalism
I tried telling myself I was just being paranoid. There were any number of reasons I could’ve been called down to my publisher’s office at Southern R.I. Newspapers’ Wakefield headquarters at 9:30 a.m. on a March Friday morning. It could’ve involved some major changes at the East Greenwich Pendulum, the weekly newspaper for which I [...]
Why the Projo Has Nobody to Blame But Themselves
By Frymaster on May 5, 2012
Over on the Facebook, dude of awesomeness Peter Hocking shared Ted Nesi’s blog post about the continuing deterioration in the Projo’s circulation. Surprisingly, their web traffic is also down and down hard. Call it 30%. You know me; I wrote a snarky comment about how newspapers have nobody but themselves to blame for their predicament. That [...]
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