Dan Kennedy
@dankennedy.net
J-prof at Northeastern University. Author, most recently, of "What Works in Community News," with Ellen Clegg. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.
Like the old David Frye routine about Nixon: “He defied the polls! He defied the odds! He defied the wishes of the American people!”
January 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Like the old David Frye routine about Nixon: “He defied the polls! He defied the odds! He defied the wishes of the American people!”
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Boston.com, the Globe’s free site since its launch 30 years ago, is adding a metered paywall
Boston.com, a free service of Boston Globe Media since its launch 30 years ago, is adding a paywall. According to a memo sent to the staff Wednesday afternoon and provided to me by a trusted source…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Police officers are trained. They don't hide their identities behind masks. They are required to display their badge numbers. They're part of the communities they serve. No, the police aren't perfect — we all know that. But they're not ICE stormtroopers, either.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Police officers are trained. They don't hide their identities behind masks. They are required to display their badge numbers. They're part of the communities they serve. No, the police aren't perfect — we all know that. But they're not ICE stormtroopers, either.
The New York Post has been crap ever since Murdoch bought it, but it's been especially unhinged lately. The cynicism of the Murdoch family is revolting — publish a great paper, the WSJ, for the upscale crowd and feed raw meat to the rabble with the NYP and Fox News.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
The New York Post has been crap ever since Murdoch bought it, but it's been especially unhinged lately. The cynicism of the Murdoch family is revolting — publish a great paper, the WSJ, for the upscale crowd and feed raw meat to the rabble with the NYP and Fox News.
The video clearly shows that she was trying to drive away and that the ICE stormtrooper was not in any danger.
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
The video clearly shows that she was trying to drive away and that the ICE stormtrooper was not in any danger.
The Globe's replica edition leaves out the first two panels. It doesn't archive cartoons on its website, so I had no way of checking.
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The Globe's replica edition leaves out the first two panels. It doesn't archive cartoons on its website, so I had no way of checking.
And from what I hear, the Trib really doesn't have much of a presence in Pittsburgh.
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
And from what I hear, the Trib really doesn't have much of a presence in Pittsburgh.
“Yellow journalism“ took its name from “The Yellow Kid,” a comic that Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World fought over.
January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“Yellow journalism“ took its name from “The Yellow Kid,” a comic that Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World fought over.
It's linked from my blog post.
January 7, 2026 at 3:43 PM
It's linked from my blog post.