Twenty-four years ago, Emily Rooney whose long-running media-criticism program, "Beat the Press," on which I was a panelist, was canceled last week by GBH News was just beginning a new phase of her career, as host and executive editor of the news and public-affairs program "Greater Boston." I wrote a piece for The…
Apr 2, 2021
CONCORD, N.H. (
WBZ NewsRadio) In New Hampshire, anyone age 16 and up can now get vaccinated for Covid-19.
The Granite State moved quickly in it s vaccine rollout - after all residents ages 30 and older became eligible just this past Monday.
For people who are 16 and 17 they must bring a parent or legal guardian with them when they go to their vaccine appointment. Residents under the age of 18 can only receive the Pfizer vaccine, as it is the only candidate to receive approval for younger groups so far.
If you are a New Hampshire resident who would like to sign up for a vaccine, you can do so on the state s VINI registration website.
Apr 1, 2021
LANCASTER, N.H. (WBZ NewsRadio) Volodomyr Zhukovskyy, a truck driver at the center of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in Coos County, New Hampshire, will be arraigned on 21 charges in Coos County Superior Court on Friday.
Zhukovskyy was indicted on the charges on March 10. The charges include seven counts of manslaughter, 14 counts of negligent homicide, and one count of reckless conduct.
The arraignment will begin at 9:45 AM.
The court has also scheduled a final pretrial hearing for November 11, jury selection for November 29-30 and the trial to begin on December 1.
Zhukovskyy s lawyers have filed a motion to reschedule the jury trial they say there is not enough time allowed to select a proper jury. Final trial dates for the jury trial could be moved.
Rush Limbaugh. Photo (cc) 2019 by Gage Skidmore.
Rush Limbaugh, the toxic right-wing talk show host who died Wednesday at the age of 70, came out of a regulatory environment that had changed utterly from what had come before. Although I like to tell my students that everything can be traced back to Richard Nixon, it was changes implemented by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton that gave us decades of Rush.
Starting in the 1930s and ’40s, the Federal Communications Commission required radio and, later, television stations to be operated in the public interest. The theory was that the broadcast spectrum was limited, so station operators were licensed and required to abide by rules such as the fairness doctrine. Right-wing talk would have been unimaginable during those years, since station executives would have been obliged to let the targets of Limbaugh’s attacks respond and to provide airtime to liberal hosts.