Yet another knowledgeable source tells me that there will be some external hires at the Globe. My judgment is that this source supersedes the previous source. What we've got here is the eternal blogger's dilemma. Standard blogging practice is to post information as it becomes available. When stuff like this happens, though, I find myself wishing I'd done it the old-fashioned way — make calls, and hold off until I have the whole story. Anyway, I'm now confident that I do have the whole story. S...

A knowledgeable source tells me that the Globe job listings are all internal moves — outsiders need not apply. ...

Charlie Pierce is on a talk-radio rampage. Last month he went after WTKK (96.9 FM), and specifically Don Imus, Michael Graham, Jay Severin, Laura Ingraham and Michele McPhee, whom he doesn't actually name, referring to her only as "a woman who sounds like she's shouting her program off the back porch of a three-decker in Revere." Now he's back, targeting Tom Finneran of WRKO (AM 680) as host of "one of the lamest shows in the history of the electric radio device." I can't say I disagree, except ...

Why is it that hardly anyone bothers to notice that the Hamas spokesman who "endorsed" Barack Obama did so by comparing him to John Kennedy? I mean, it's weird, and Obama is right to label Hamas a terrorist organization. But by embracing Obama, Hamas is clearly trying to portray itself as reasonable and moderate. Which makes John McCain's attempt to exploit this all the more deplorable. This is about Hamas trying to change its own image, nothing more. Joe Lieberman has jumped in, too. ...

Check out these job postings for six reporters (including Charlie Savage's replacement) and an assistant metro editor at the Boston Globe. (Thanks to Media Nation reader T.W.) ...

John McCain's Burma-coddling convention chairman, Doug Goodyear, is gone. *I just noticed that Josh Marshall used the same headline. I wrote mine before I read his. Honest! ...

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports that John McCain has chosen a convention chair who once worked as a lobbyist for Burma's repressive government. "It was six years ago," protests Doug Goodyear. Well, gee, he's got a point. In 2002, the military junta had only been in power for 40 years. Even better: According to Isikoff, Goodyear got the call because the other guy McCain was considering had once represented Ferdinand Marcos as well as the corrupt former prime minister of Ukraine. ...

Hmmm ... within the last 20 minutes, I started getting a message that my Mac has either a virus or a spyware problem whenever I try to access a Blogspot blog. The message, from Google (which owns Blogspot), begins: We're sorry ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. It happens with both Firefox and Safari, but I have no problem accessing non-Blogspot sites. I could install...

Don Aucoin reports in today's Boston Globe that the venerable Christian Science Monitor might be heading down the road blazed by the Capital Times in Madison, Wis. — a hybrid Web/print model, with the print newspaper coming out just once a week. According to Aucoin, at the moment the Monitor is considering only a modest tweak — a weekly edition to supplement the daily. But, reportedly, there is a possibility that the weekly might eventually replace the daily. If that happens, the print editi...

The Boston Globe has lost its second Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter this week, according to the Phoenix's Adam Reilly. And while the departure of Sacha Pfeiffer for WBUR Radio (90.9 FM) means only that we'll have to turn on the radio rather than pick up the paper, the latest loss — that of Charlie Savage, scourge of the Bush White House — is a rather different matter.Savage is going to the New York Times. Given that he is only in his early 30s, this is like losing Jonathan Papelbon to the Y...

This is surreal. Casino supporter Hal Brown, who has compared opponents to the Ku Klux Klan, and Middleborough selectman Adam Bond, who has compared them to Nazis, are going to talk about "the sociopathology of internet abusers and why they feel compelled to do it" at 11 a.m. today on Bond's radio show, "Coffee Shop Talk," on WXBR Radio (AM 1460). It seems that Bond and Brown are very excited over this story in the Taunton Gazette about Michael Quish, a limousine-compa...

Part of a never-ending series! The Phoenix's Adam Reilly suggests that publisher Pat Purcell beef up the tabloid's already-good sports section so that it can claim bragging rights over the Globe. ...

In my latest for the Guardian, I argue that Hillary Clinton has finally reached the end of the media road. The new narrative isn't that she's losing, but that she's lost, and that the only thing reporters want to know now is when she'll get out. I made similar points this morning on New England Cable News. ...

I'm ridiculously late to the party, but if you haven't read Jon Keller's Wall Street Journal piece comparing Barack Obama to Deval Patrick, you should. It's more timely than ever, given Obama's emergence today as the all-but-certain nominee. As Keller notes (joining many others), there are numerous stylistic and rhetorical similarities between Obama and Patrick, and he wonders what that portends for an Obama administration, given Patrick's rocky stint (it's now officially too late to call it a r...

I'll be talking about the media and presidential politics tomorrow at about 9 a.m. on New England Cable News following tonight's big primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. ...

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Question: Would Todd Gitlin be capable of writing an interesting analysis of Tim Russert's interview with Barack Obama if he weren't trying to thread the needle of producing a weekly column for the Columbia Journalism Review called "Russert Watch" after having outed himself as an Obama supporter — a fact that he does not disclose even though it is still probably not widely known? Answer: I have no idea. I do know that this certainly isn't interesting. ...

The Herald's Scott Van Voorhis rightly notes that a new UMass Dartmouth poll purporting to show an increase in support for casino gambling is undercut considerably by the fact that it "was commissioned by Northeast Resorts, a real estate firm that owns sites in Palmer and New Bedford that have been identified as possible casino sites." But he's at least partly wrong in reporting that a March survey showed public opinion was split. That was indeed the lede, as reported by Stephanie Vosk in this s...

Barbara Walters must think that if you wait for everyone to forget, you can trot out an old affair and tout it as news. The media world is buzzing softly (very softly) over Walters' revelation that she had an affair with then-senator Ed Brooke in the 1970s. She is, of course, peddling a book. Maybe it's because I'm old, but my first reaction was: "I knew that." It sounded very familiar to me when we talked about it on "Beat the Press" yesterday on WGBH-TV (Channel 2). When I started searching, I...

Let me stipulate for the record that I think ad-blocking software is evil. But I might just install some if the Boston Globe and the Weekly Dig can't figure out what's wrong with "a.collective-media.net." Update: Better results with Safari than with Firefox today. What's that about? ...