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.
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.
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