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Friday, September 28, 2012

Remember this iconic graphic?

I'm waiting for the Barack Obama version.
Oh, there isn't one yet? No, there isn't. Hmm. Soldiers are still dying over there, right? Yup. So, where is the montage? Where is the artistry? Where is the outrage? Yup, I know, not there now. Sigh.

1 comment:

Mark de Zabaleta said...: Excellent !

Mark de Zabaleta; September 29, 2012 3:02 AM

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Second Place, Best Website for Concord NH Patch; Second Place, Right-to-Know Award for stories on Concord School District business administrator hire, from the New Hampshire Press Association Media Awards, Oct. 18, 2013.

Winner, Media Excellence Award, from the New Hampshire State Grange, Oct. 27, 2012.

Winner, Best Website for Concord NH Patch, from the New Hampshire Press Association Media Awards, Oct. 12, 2012.

Winner, Media Award, from the Concord Grange #322 on April 30, 2012, for work with Concord NH Patch. It was the Grange's first ever media award. "No matter what it is, (Tony's) out covering it. He's honest ... he tells the truth and he doesn't fudge it, no matter what," Dick Patten, Concord Grange. View the video clip from the event by clicking here.

Winner, five New England Newspaper & Press Association awards for 2010 including third place award for General Excellence; second place award for Local Election Coverage; second and third place awards, in separate class divisions, for Educational Reporting; and second place for Overall Design, for work with the Belmont Citizen-Herald and WickedLocalBelmont.com.

"Tony Schinella is one of New England’s journalistic gems – a reporter’s reporter and sharp observer of anything that sparks his interest." - David Bernstein, political reporter, the Boston Phoenix

Finalist, Best of Gatehouse 2008 Newspaper of the Year [Non-daily], Belmont Citizen-Herald.

Winner, 2008 New England Press Assoc. first place award for Government Reporting, Belmont Citizen-Herald.

"...[C]areful research ... is what newspapers used to do, but we're hard-pressed to find another in these days of journalistic malpractice." - Mass. Citizens for Limited Taxation comment about Schinella's editorial endorsement of a 2008 ballot question in the Belmont Citizen-Herald, Oct. 29, 2008.

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Winner, 2005 New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters Golden Mike Award in the Feature Story category for "Trains," an audio feature about the Hooksett Lions Club Model Train Event, for WKXL 1450 news radio.

On receiving an IAFF Media Award for editorial/column in 2005 published in The Winchester Star: "IAFF members across the United States and Canada appreciate the work you have done to expose the importance of safe staffing and equipment in fire departments, a vital issue for the IAFF and professional fire fighters." - Harold Schaitberger, IAFF General President, July 11, 2005.

On analyzing the outcome of 2004 presidential election: "... very perceptive. I think it's worth reading." - The National Political Observer, Nov. 4, 2004.

On exposing the connection between the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and its lobbying for the preservation of tax breaks for corporations from which they receive funding published in The Winchester Star: Chip Ford of Mass. Citizens for Limited Taxation called Schinella's analysis "incisive." - Email to members, Oct. 24, 2004.

On being one of the first media outlets to reveal inconsistencies in the Robert Greenwald "OutFoxed" documentary: "One of those correspondents - Tony Schinella, who writes the weblog Politizine - documented that and other problems with Outfoxed last July. I know Schinella to be a reliable reporter and observer." - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, Sept. 10-16, 2004.

On problems with talk radio, from a column published in The Winchester Star: "Schinella has written a worthwhile column on the demise of talk radio." - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, Dec. 6, 2002.

On the lack of local talent in the Boston talk radio market: "[Schinella's] a bright, articulate guy, and he espouses a hard-edged political view that's seldom heard these days." - Dan Kennedy, The Boston Phoenix, "The Death of Talk Radio," May 8, 1997.