The Phoenix Media/Communications Group has purchased the monthly music magazine founded in 1987 and will begin publishing it again in May, the Portland Press Herald reports. Beginning last year, FACE had been distributed in The Maine Weekly (formerly Casco Bay Weekly). But in February the Weekly's owner, Maine Publishing, filed for bankruptcy. Media holdings of the Phoenix group include three AAN papers, The Boston Phoenix, The Portland Phoenix and The Providence Phoenix.
Plagiarism isn't just for lazy news-writers and uninspired columnists. It also shows up on the op-ed pages. According to William M. Adler's report for The Austin Chronicle, many notable academics from the field of nuclear research have been borrowing from, or copying verbatim, editorials supplied by members of the U.S. energy lobby. These editorials have become a simple way for the industry to give their message credibility, while the professors get a quick and easy byline. Now exposed, these same professors claim to be the real victims of deceit.
The crooks who sent out millions of e-mails appealing for financial help to move money out of Nigeria have moved on to another profitable scheme. Pretending to be deaf, they use telephone companies' communications assistants to help them order products from merchants. The goods are on the way to Africa before the seller discovers the credit card is no good. Edward Ericson Jr. reports for Baltimore City Paper that the vast amount of time consumed by con artists limits deaf people's access to the Internet Protocol Relay system they rely on to communicate by phone.
Noticing that The Washington Times hadn't run a single correction in nine days, City Paper editor Erik Wemple decided to provide that service in his own pages. Wrong name, wrong block, wrong date of crime: Such errors will be duly noted and corrected in the alt-weekly. City Paper will "manage this critical function," Wemple writes, because the Times "lacks the resources to run its own corrections."
It's likely that Iraq could devolve into civil war, but there's no assurance that sending in more U.S. troops will solve anything. So where do we go from here? Reporters from The Boston Phoenix interview nine foreign-policy experts. Their advice ranges from calling on Iraqi leaders to quell the violence in return for troop withdrawals to refusing to turn governing authority over to the Iraqis until the situation is brought under control.
The copying didn't go undetected because The Village Voice Online has too many readers in Canada. A former teaching assistant called the Toronto Star to point out that the narrative structure and phrasing in Prithi Yelaja's story about U.S. Army deserter Brandon Hughey reminded him of what he'd read in the New York City alt-weekly two days earlier. Star ombudsman Don Sellar reports that nearly a third of the Star article was rooted in a Village Voice story by Alisa Solomon. The remorseful Yelaja called Solomon to apologize.
On the heels of March's surge in job creation, a series of media-company financial reports in recent days indicate that help-wanted pages in newspapers are swelling again, further sign that the labor market has turned the corner.
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