A last parting shot at 2004: And yet the truth is I rather like this annual Christmas controversy. For one thing it helps to debunk one of the more absurd myths about America that the rest of the world clings to — that it is firmly in the grip of some theocracy in which schoolchildren… Continue reading

Podcasting? Check it out.

Apparently, even book editors are being outsourced these days… Apparently Newspaper Editors Don’t Do a Lot, Either Following in a great but unfortunate tradition, the NY Observer has a new reporter poking around publishing who has recast the old editors-don’t-edit misconception into the new jargon of outsourcing: “Much the same way that telemarketers and programmers… Continue reading

I last met David Brudnoy at a party prior to the Boston Film Festival two summers ago. He looked cheerful as ever as he made the rounds, chatting with local filmmakers. I told him I was helping my dad put together his memoirs of the Boston newspaper business as he knew it over the decades… Continue reading

He was a good boss. Peggy Noonan, with some thoughtful insights, on the end of the Dan Rather era….