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Inquirer to Cut Opinions Section in Half Starting Next Month
Beginning September 9, your copy of the Inquirer will be slightly lighter—by about half of the opinion section, should newsroom sources to City Paper be […]
Have You Noticed: The Inquirer Has Gotten Better
To my editor at the Philly Post: Brace yourself. I’m about to praise the Philadelphia Inquirer. Yes, the Inquirer. Because a funny thing has been […]
New York Times Website Is Under “Cyber Attack”
Update [4:30]: The Times is back up, with a note that doesn’t say anything about cyber attacks, and everything about a “scheduled maintenance update.” The […]
Philly.com Will “Address Trolls” With New Commenting System
Troll, Definition E: An anonymous internet commenter who posts hateful, vitriolic messages below respectable news stories. I.E., a Philly.com commenter. But not for long…maybe. Today, […]
Our Favorite Media Moment of the Day: The Inky Exploration of Philly Goth Culture
Is it easy to make jokes about the Inquirer’s decision to cover the decline of goth culture in Philadelphia? Yes. Are we going to do […]
Bob Ford: Mike Vick Will Get Eagles QB Job Because Riley Cooper Used the “N” Word
What a weird Bob Ford column on Sunday. The Inquirer columnist seems to say that Mike Vick will get the Eagles starting quarterback position—at least […]
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 […]
Three Reasons to Oppose “Clear Cutting” Poor Philly Neighborhoods
The late, acerbic comedian Sam Kinison had a routine about the problem of world hunger. He’d start out quietly musing about commercials that showed starving […]
The Problems With Sen. Lisa Boscola’s Inky Op-Ed on Kidnapping
Nobody ever wants to look like they’re on the side of sex offenders, but there’s something kind of misleading—though, probably, very well-intentioned—about State Sen. Lisa […]
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 […]
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 […]
Supposedly Objective Director Of Major Media Outlet Unabashed Cory Booker Fan
Sunday night, the Inquirer‘s Matt Katz reported that South Jersey power broker George Norcross had endorsed Cory Booker for Senate. That makes sense, given his leanings. […]
U.S. Open Prompts Inquirer to Lift Paywall For at Least a Week
The incoherence of the Interstate General Media paywall strategy continues. Recap: the Inquirer and the Daily News are outfitted with hard paywalls, but all their content is […]