Media
ESPN’s Ashley Fox Recalls Sexism in the Eagles Locker Room
ESPN this week ran Let Them Wear Towels, a documentary about the challenges that faced the first generation of women sports reporters and the sexism […]
Mayor Nutter Pens “After Trayvon” Cover Essay for Time
Speaking of unexpected magazine covers, Philly’s own Mayor Michael Nutter has a byline on the front of the latest issue of Time Magazine, with an […]
Rolling Stone Puts Boston Bomber on Cover, Apparently Making Him America’s Most Admired Young Man
Quite a brouhaha over Rolling Stone’s decision to put (alleged) Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover. The outrage is coming from all quarters: Time Magazine […]
Muslim Editor Wasn’t Talking About Philly’s White Supremacist Fireworks, Thank You Very Much
In a Monday story about Friday’s very late fireworks at the Phillies game, Daily News reporter Dana DiFilippo suggested some folks thought the ruckus had […]
Women and Minorities Be Warned: Don Imus Returning to Philly Radio
Ever since Nappy-headedhogate in 2007, radio jock Dom Imus has been off Philly airwaves. Beginning Tuesday morning, from 6-9 a.m., he’ll be back, on 106.9 […]
How Much Do Single-Family Homes in Media Cost? Here Are 5 Good Answers
Media is the county seat of Delaware County, and is about a half an hour from Philadelphia. With a population just over 5,000, you’d think […]
What Philadelphians Were Reading 232 Years Ago
Here’s your post-Independence Day special: Slate flags the October 24th, 1781 edition of a colonial-era Philadelphia newspaper called The Freeman’s Journal: Or, the North-American Intelligencer. Address: […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Philly.com’s Free News
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital paywalls for the Inquirer and Daily News: I started reading Philly.com a lot more. A […]
The Single Dumbest Reaction to the New Yorker’s Gay Ernie and Bert Cover
Here’s this week’s New Yorker cover, which for obvious reasons is generating a fair amount of internet buzz right now. There you have it: Ernie […]
Will Bunch Maybe Isn’t Happy With Today’s Daily News.
Here’s the blog post Daily News scribe/all-around rabble-rouser Will Bunch just posted at Philly.com: He writes: “Story complaing about high city taxes (even as it […]
In Which the New York Times Reminds Us Our Schools Are Screwed
The New York Times only comes around these parts where something serious is a foot. Last time we read a Trip Gabriel piece about Pennsylvania, the New […]
Inquirer.com Still Free…As of 8:30 This Morning
The Inquirer opened up Inquirer.com last week to draw golfheads to the site during the U.S. Open. Today, it’s all supposed to go back into […]
ESPN’s Rick Reilly Wants to Take Merion Out Back and Shoot It
The U.S. Open is being held at the Merion Golf Club. Merion is small. We get that. Rick Reilly wants us to get it even […]
Salon to New York Times: Stop the Santa-Booing Philly References!
Salon, it seems, has decided to get Philly’s back, making fun of the New York Times for all the times it mentions that this is […]
Koch Brothers Could Soon Become Philly Media Players
Buried in the recent news that the arch-conservative mega-powerful Koch Brothers were considering buying the Chicago-based Tribune Co., were a couple of potential Philly implications. The […]