BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Special Pulitzer Prize Edition
A.P. Ticker interviews Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker, recipients of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize or investigative journalism.
ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: CNBC Sparks Debate With ‘Marijuana & Money’ Special Report
CNBC: “Marijuana & Money ” explores virtually every angle and aspect of the marijuana debate, from the economics of taxation and law enforcement; the likely business models of production and consumption; the lobbying effort and public health debate; professional and workplace issues; and, of course, the rapidly evolving world of legalized medical marijuana. Much of this you can track through individual state pages and a state-by-state tables. In some three dozen articles, videos and slideshows—and another dozen, diverse commentaries(pro, con and neutral) from major players and thought leaders in the arenas of politics and government, law, medicine, sociology, religion and […]
THAT’S COMCASTIC: Ed Snider, Owner Of The Flyers & 76ers, Launching New Right Wing TV Network
DAILY NEWS: The local sports mogul and longtime backer of conservative causes says he’s a major investor in a new cable TV network that may have an even more difficult task than bringing hockey’s crown back to Philly, and that is toppling the right-wing ratings champ, the Fox News Channel. The Snider-funded RightNetwork – with a looser approach to conservative topics, including a comedy show and a jocular front man in sitcom star Kelsey Grammer – is hoping to come to your cable box as early as this summer. Snider – whose investment in RightNetwork is personal and not linked […]
RACHEL MADDOW: The Ghost Of Timothy McVeigh Howls In The Bones Of The Radical Right
WASHINGTON POST: Fifteen years ago today, Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck filled with explosives and ammonium nitrate fertilizer in front of the Oklahoma City federal building and detonated a bomb so strong it sheared off half the building and killed 168 people. History is still puzzling through the event’s lingering effects. McVeigh is dead (he was executed in 2001) and yet very much with us, in an eerie vibe that rolls around every April 19. At least he is for MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow, who has been having 1990s flashbacks with the anti-government vitriol that most recently accompanied […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Piggie Of The Week
Fat, Republican and fuck-the-little-guy is no way to go through four years as governor of New Jersey, son.
PAPERBOY: Slow-Jamming The Alt-Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
This week: All the local Pulitzer Prize news that fits.
FREE TIX: For The Philly Film Fest’s Spring Preview
TICKET OFFER: Philadelphia Film Festival has offered us limited number of passes for the Spring Preview screenings, if you would like to attend drop us a line at feed@Phawker.com and please include a cell-phone number. RELATED: Dan Buskirk’s Spring Preview Review *** SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: The Week In Weed A.P. Ticker puts Philly’s new pot possession policy in his pipe and stuffs it.
PAPERBOY: Slow-Jamming The Alt-Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
NEWSPAPER DEATH WATCH: Tierney Says Inquirer And Daily News Will Be Out Of Money By July
INQUIRER: Brian P. Tierney, president and CEO of Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., lashed out at his company’s lenders Wednesday, suggesting that they were purposefully trying to financially destroy the media firm by seeking to delay the company’s scheduled April 27 auction. […] Should the auction be delayed, the company’s bankruptcy case could drag on well into the summer and beyond, which would be a financial disaster, Tierney said. The company has estimated that it will run out of operating cash by July. MORE UPDATE: Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C.’s bankruptcy auction remains scheduled for April 27. A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
A.P. discusses Philly’s new weed policy, ‘collateral murder’ in Iraq, the Donovan McNabb trade and, of course, the Fightins.
PIGGIE OF THE WEEK: PA A.G. Tom Corbett
This week A.P. Ticker calls out Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett for suing to repeal health care reform in a shameless bid to draw Tea Party support for his gubernatorial campaign.