Mark Jurkowitz takes a break from packing long enough to express outrage that a tabloid newspaper would use puns in headlines and that you can often tell from photographs of women that they have breasts.
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By adamg - 5/4/06 - 2:52 pm
For a couple weeks there, our Professional Media Critic was back to his old routine of only covering things happening hundreds of miles away ("For those who care, here's a piece from LA City Beat casting a very jaundiced eye on New Times honcho Mike Lacey's plans for the newly acquired Village Voice" - yawn).
By adamg - 2/6/06 - 11:41 am
The Professional Media Critic reads about a newspaper controversy in a Third World country 99.9% of Americans could not locate on a map if their lives depended on it.
By adamg - 1/12/06 - 1:20 pm
Sean McCarthy writes for the Herald, so you might expect him to care about goings-on at that paper, but he does raise an interesting question about Boston's own Professional Media Critic: Does Mark Jurkowitz realize the Globe isn't the only daily newspaper published inside Rte. 128?
By adamg - 1/4/06 - 1:59 pm
No more medialog_2. Now Mark's at thephoenix.com/medialog. First post: Optimism that the revival of Jack Williams at Channel 4 means Big Personalities are back at local anchordesks (hmm, does this mean somebody will be unfreezing Tom Ellis?).
By adamg - 12/22/05 - 12:16 pm
Mad props to readers of The Professional Media Critic for trying to steer him back toward Boston. Yesterday, the Critic posted about some Chicago newspaper discontinuing a Metro-like edition. Not so fast, there, buddy. Bostonians are in the house - and they want to talk about the Herald's handling of the Dorchester quadruple murder - something the Critic himself has yet to discuss.
By adamg - 11/10/05 - 10:25 am
The Professional Media Critic finally weighs in on Theogate. For the most part, Mark Jurkowitz's long piece tells you absolutely nothing you couldn't have read last week on, oh, Boston Sports Media Watch, although it could prove useful as a handout for new immigrants from Kansas or Mars who don't know why local sports fans keep cursing this Shaughnessy guy. Curiously, though, the one thought-provoking new idea comes all the way at the end, in the very last paragraph:
By adamg - 11/3/05 - 3:08 pm
Keeping his powder dry. In response to pleas to discuss Theogate and the role of the press, Mark writes, on his blog:
By adamg - 8/24/05 - 12:08 pm
Is it too much to ask that a Boston media critic know what's going on in the local media? Especially one who has basically been covering and working in the local media for years now?
I ask the question after reading this week's Don't Quote Me in the Phoenix, in which new (also old) Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz goes on and on about the reaction among black journalists to the New York Times starting a newspaper in Gainesville, Fla. aimed at blacks.
By adamg - 8/17/05 - 1:32 pm
For two days now, the Herald front page has screamed about the Stomper, the allegedly violent homeless guy who enjoys stomping on other homeless people, who recently got out of jail and who might be a suspect in the death of a homeless man in Downtown Crossing on Saturday (Homeless: Living in fear and Homeless alert issued amid 'Stomper' fears).
By adamg - 7/8/05 - 1:47 pm
Via Jay comes the news that new (also, old) Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz is now writing his own Media Log.
Coupla stylin' suggestions: Use paragraph marks instead of line breaks to separate, well, paragraphs. Much easier to read. And turn off the Word "smart quote" stuff (ick!) that turns your apostrophes into gibberish.
By adamg - 6/25/05 - 11:08 am
At least, from his Media Watch blog. He reports his successor (and predecessor), Mark Jurkowitz, will take up the blogging thing, though.
Jay bets Dan'll be back blogging soon enough on his dankennedy.net.
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