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The year of media malfeasance

Remembering the year in media malfeasance
Granted, other years have had flashier media embarrassments (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass), but that doesn't mean that 2008 lacked for media misdeeds.

By: ADAM REILLY | December 24, 2008

Make Net Neutraility a reality

What's the fuss over the Fairness Doctrine really about?
These are scary times for far-right conservatives.

By: ADAM REILLY | November 17, 2008

McCain's bid won't die after Election Day

What if the election doesn’t end on Election Day?
It’s almost over. This is welcome news.

By: ADAM REILLY | November 03, 2008

The GOP is smearing Obama as a narcissist. So why is the press playing along?
If Barack Obama loses the presidency this November, it won’t be because of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or “Bitter-gate,” or sundry other vulnerabilities.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 30, 2008

Criminal intent

Ed Burns on writing Iraq
Ed Burns — former Baltimore homicide detective, Vietnam vet, and long-time writing partner with David Simon, both on the The Wire and on Generation Kill , spoke with the Phoenix about the new series.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 07, 2008

The wages of war

The creators of The Wire take on Iraq in Generation Kill
The Iraq War poses a strange problem for the American public.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 07, 2008

Is anybody paying attention to McClatchy's powerful Guantánamo exposé?

An old-media triumph sheds new light on Bush’s terror policy
Even before its 2006 acquisition of Knight Ridder, California-based McClatchy had a reputation for putting out some of America’s best mid-level dailies.

By: ADAM REILLY | June 25, 2008

March to war

Why isn’t the press paying more attention to a possible attack on Iran?
During the course of two weeks in May, America’s top-ranking military officer went from warning that war with Iran could cripple the US military to rattling his saber at Tehran.

By: ADAM REILLY | June 04, 2008

Cheating rules!

Why steroids, spying, and all those other sports scandals are actually good for fans
Maybe we shouldn’t lament the sundry scandals that have made 2007 the Year of the Cheater.

By: ADAM REILLY | October 03, 2007

The Milquetoast and the Blowhard

Rhode Island’s Shakespearean Senate battle
Now is not the time for Lincoln Chafee to be timid.

By: ADAM REILLY | September 08, 2006

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BLOG POSTS BY ADAM REILLY

Stunner of the day: Globe worth just $20 million?

The beginning of the end of Fenway?

Don't oversimplify the GateHouse fight

GateHouse vs. the Globe: Yes, it's on

The Times's crafty Kennedy Q-and-A

Rick Warren: Why is anybody surprised?

New in the Phoenix: The lofty ambitions of GlobalPost

Boston's next newspaper war?

Non-journalists: you know them when you see them

Is NewsMax's Kessler getting liberal?