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Phil Sheridan Will Cover Eagles for ESPN
We knew ESPN was going to start covering the Eagles with a full-time blogger. What we probably should’ve mentioned is that ESPN’s practice is to […]
WWIQ—Home to Rush and Hannity—Sold to Christian Broadcaster
The Daily News reports that Philly’s home for Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity has been sold to a Christian broadcaster: Conservatives […]
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post: Will Algorithms Decide the News?
As Calhoun Tubbs would say, “Like to hear it go:” In rides Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos on a white horse like a knight saving the day. […]
The List: 5 Recent CNN Fails, In Chronological Order
Jon Stewart famously called CNN “The Human Centipede of News” and “The Most Busted Name in News” after the channel broke inaccurate information in the […]
Even If Nicole Brewer Doesn’t Love Carol Erickson, Broadway Does
This is totally, totally not an excuse to re-run a link to this video featuring Nicole Brewer and Carol Erickson. Seriously. We’d never try to […]
CNN Reported Poconos Shooting In Wrong Town
Oh dear. CNN apparently failed to realize the difference between Ross, Pennsylvania and Ross Township Pennsylvania. The latter is where Monday’s dreadful Poconos shooting took […]
The Talk Is A Bloggier, Webbier Version of The Inquirer Online. And It’s Free.
Amidst talk of whether journalists at the Inquirer are at war with in-house cousin Philly.com (and the charge that the new paywalled Inquirer.com was “set […]
Are the Inquirer and Philly.com at War?
City Paper’s Dan Denvir has a report on trouble brewing between the Inquirer and Philly.com, the hybrid website that features a mix of Inky, Daily […]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Buy Washington Post, Pay Cash
File under: Be careful what you wish for. On the heels of what now seems like an oddly timed New York Times profile of the […]
City Paper Weighs in on Philly Weekly Lawsuit; Everybody Else Weighs in on CP [Update]
UPDATE [8:52 a.m.] City Paper has pulled the satire piece and issued an apology. City Paper writer Ryan Briggs tries to satirize Tara Murtha’s harassment […]
Three Things About the PW Gender Discrimination Suit
I should start by saying that I don’t know Tara Murtha. We tumbled around in the same circles when I was at City Paper and […]
Philadelphia Weekly Senior Writer Tara Murtha Sues PW, Alleges Gender-Based Discrimination
Philadelphia Weekly senior writer Tara Murtha filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against her employer yesterday. She’s alleging gender-based […]
ESPN Is Going To Give You Even More Eagles Coverage
Philadelphia seems to have an insatiable demand for coverage of the Eagles. That theory will now be tested by ESPN—here and in every NFL market—according […]
Times Examines How Reddit Smeared Missing Philly Student as Boston Bomber
The New York Times Magazine has a long piece examining how Reddit promoted the false theory that Sunil Tripathi—a then-missing, now-known-to-be-deceased Philadelphia student at Brown University—was […]
The List: 6 Controversial Philadelphia Covers
1. Philadelphia Daily News, “The Cowardly Penguin,” April 18, 2012 While this cover was strange and turned a lot of heads, Sidney Crosby himself reportedly […]