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Tag: Boston Globe
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Spotlight and the end of journalism’s good old days
The new film spotlights a newspaper era on its way out.
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The Boston Globe’s pedophile priests investigation gets dramatized in Spotlight
I’m a junkie for newspaper dramas, from Park Row to All the President’s Men to Shattered Glass, and Spotlight promises to be a good or even a great one, with a gifted writer-director and a powerhouse cast. Thomas McCarthy—whose dramas The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), and Win Win (2011) mark him as one […]
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Patrick Haggerty carries on the spirit of Lavender Country
Forty years later, the man behind the first gay country record teams up with a former Chicagoan to reach out to another marginalized population.
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What moved LBJ to target poverty?
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was more than a play for votes.
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Does the future of journalism hang on a Tiffany bracelet?
The 1 percent solution to journalism’s woes
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The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama’s so smart, why does he want four more years?
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Casino money for the arts?
Will a Chicago casino steal audiences from cultural events?
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Patricia Smith (remember her?) nominated for a National Book Award
Fallen journalist Patricia Smith is a National Book Award finalist for poetry.