When singer Michael Fracasso "finds, as he frequently does, a certain inflection, he can break your heart or stir your soul on the beat," Dave Marsh writes in The Austin Chronicle. Marsh profiles the talented Austin singer whose wife says he doesn't want fame for himself, only his songs.
The postwar stabilization of Iraq is not going well, a Coalition Provisional Authority official wrote in a memo in early March. The result: "Baghdadis have an uneasy sense that they are heading towards civil war." The memo describes corruption within the Iraqi Governing Council, resentments about the centralization of power in Baghdad, insufficient security in the Green Zone where CPA officials stay, and black-market sales of U.S.-supplied weapons by Iraqi police. Investigative reporter Jason Vest obtained a copy of the memo from a Western intelligence official and was commissioned to write an article about it for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. His piece, "Fables of the Reconstruction," is being published simultaneously on the Web sites of scores of AAN papers.
Seattle Weekly writers bash George W. Bush, but the president might take some consolation in the generous contributions he gets by way of the paper's co-owner, Goldman Sachs. The financial investment company's employees "have donated $436,199 to Bush over the course of the president's political career -- and a startling $301,225 in this year's election cycle alone," Josh Feit reports in The Stranger. Goldman Sachs is one of three investors in the Weekly's parent company, Village Voice Media.
Amy Goodman's "bare-knuckled, sometimes confrontational interview style and fiercely progressive politics distinguish her from the rest of the tapioca field in commercial and public broadcast media," Alexander Zaitchik writes. The show she launched eight years ago on a Pacifica affiliate station in New York now airs on 200 radio and television stations. In this New York Press interview, Goodman reveals both her optimism (she believes war can be eradicated) and her toughness.
Sales are down not just because of the 10 million Americans who are on a low-carbohydrate regime like the Atkins diet. Perhaps more influential, writes Lissa Harris for Boston's Weekly Dig, "is the general protein-good, carbs-bad theology of the Atkins diet that is gradually pervading conventional wisdom." The food industry's response has been a little schizophrenic, she observes, with bakers developing more low-carb goodies at the same time they are trying to restore carbohydrates' good name to the public.
Metro International, which already has free dailies in Boston, Philadelphia and Europe, is expected to launch a New York edition May 5. Executives are also eyeing expansion into San Francisco and Washington, Jon Fine reports in AdAge. Some advertisers aren't persuaded of the value of these and similar free dailies, which appear to have been "hastily assembled with scissors and a pot of glue," according to Fine. The risk of losing ads is borne by alternative weeklies, he reports, quoting Jane Levine, executive vice president of Chicago Reader, about the impact.
A story by investigative reporter Jason Vest will be published on scores of AAN newspaper Web sites, beginning at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 20, Editor & Publisher reports. The 3,000-word article quotes from a "closely held" memo by a U.S. government official that "offers a candid assessment of Iraq's bleak future," reports E&P, which obtained a copy of the story Monday. Vest is senior correspondent for American Prospect. He was honored as an "Unsung Hero of Washington Journalism" by the American Journalism Review in 2002.
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