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A wonderful new voice for Cape Cod
Finally a print media for the "thinkers" in Barnstable County
The Cape Cod Voice reinvents itself
By Walter Brooks
A truly remarkable media event just happened --the 8-year-old Cape Cod Voice has morphed into a very sharp, very focused and very necessary addition to our media menu.
This now-glossy, now monthly magazine is treading where the "old media" used to not only tread, but justify its very existence.
But our daily has long given up the task of exposing the wickedness or simple bush league chicanery on our sand-spit to become the PR firm of choice for the likes of the Alliance, the Commission, the Chamber, and of course, "The Michael" our dilettante DA who doesn't try many cases but he sure dines well as The Voice reveals in a 19-page piece of Big League investigative reporting in their current June issue.
And that's just for starters
The hallmark of a great man is one who can admit he was wrong about an important issue upon receiving enough new information to alter a publicly stated position.
It's something one never sees in the newspaper business --when was the last time you read a newspaper editorial or heard a television anchor admitting an error and correcting it in equal time and space?
I've been a journalist for over fifty years and can't recall any, but that's precisely what the Editor & Publisher of the Cape Cod Voice, Seth Rolbein, does in a two-page piece in the same issue where he completely changed his position on Cape Wind which he describes as the most important issue to face Cape Codders in his lifetime.
In the June issue, Rolbein itemizes the seven major objections he and others had to Cape Wind, and refutes each of them.
His editorial and rationale are so compelling, we have asked and received permission to reprint it in its entirety as a guest editorial later this week.
The Cape Cod Voice website describes the magazine like this:
Finally, a monthly magazine that is both stylish and informative, glossy and honest, that delves into the life and times of Cape Cod with candor and verve.
Created by a team that knows and loves the Cape, celebrated by the New England Press Association as deserving of a Pulitzer Prize, The Cape Cod Voice is the one place where readers know they will get honest, provocative, spirited, and flat-out fun stories, exploring every nook and cranny of this unique peninsula.
The new Voice is at least that good, and if you live here, if you pay taxes here (whether you live here or not) you really need to spend $29 a year to receive Cape Cod Voice or pick up a copy today at our of these locations.
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Strictly a business question.
Did Cape Cod Voice suddenly "see the light"
from the folly of their ways ?
or..
did Cape Cod Voice see the "cash"
from Cape Wind in advertising revenue?
perhaps an expose is due..
I as much as any other have often criticized The Voice content or focus in the past, and for me to be this impressed with its change of direction should be doubly noteworthy.
My old friend, Pat Polillo, once admonished me for dissing The Voice, saying if they only manage to throw one spear into the heart of the barbarians they have earned their surs.
The new Voice has skewered several barbarians in this one issue alone.
Walter, I admire you for putting this on your site.
Seth and his reporters deserve much credit for doing what other cowardly editors only dream of.....
What you got to say now....Buzzzzzzz?
At least he got the right guy, hey Cru?
Librty and Justice for ALL! That's my country, what about you???
What do expect Atty. Segadelli to say? Give me a break.
Yes, go read the Cape Cod Voice. Be sure and pick up a copy at the Orleans Post Office Square--(I do miss Dan!..hope he's happily married...anyone know if he's still living in Yugoslav?)...
Or better yet, sign up and subscribe on line!
Nice makeover of the Cape Cod Voice website--
WAY TO GO--SETH! Beware of those unmarked cars, adorned with wig-wags, cages in the back and phoney badges--sheriff's deputies go undercover, but some are just making contributions for the 50 cent badge that little Jimmy gets at the dime store!...this is better than fiction!
Go read masscops.com (Barnstable Sheriff's Dept. Ethtics Commission-google) You won't believe what you read, but the good boys in blue know....Bonavita was bounced from Middlesex, Dedham, Plymouth and then landed on Cummings front door! He was not alone--crimes dropped by DA..no sh!t.
Irish Mob vs. Italian Mob and the drug trade. Guess Christa really didn't know what she was getting into....history tells us many things....JFK should have left well enough alone, too.
It went “from a resounding success into troubled waters. The ship is foundering,” says Segadelli. Segadelli represented “Juror Number Seven,” Rachel Huffman, who was removed from the panel because she spoke about the trial while sequestered. He also made it clear that he considers Michael O’Keefe a friend (Segadelli is one of many attorneys who contributed to O’Keefe’s re-election campaign, and would support him again). But that friendship, and the fact that he thinks the DA got the right guy, doesn’t preclude him from criticizing aspects of the prosecution’s case – which many say was managed by O’Keefe, though he was forced to appoint an assistant to conduct the trial after controversy emerged about his conduct and comments during the investigation. “They made some very fine efforts; however, they made some colossal blunders as well,” notes Segadelli.
The rest of this story and much more can be found in this month's print version of The Cape Cod Voice.
SHIP IS FLOUNDERING....BLUNDERS!
Ya, think?
And wonder what will happen to those Truro DNA swabs?
If you’re an attorney, civil or criminal, it can’t hurt to have the top guy in the prosecutor’s office feeling a little beholden – or at least willing to take your phone call, a simple courtesy seeing as he cashed that check you sent to his campaign committee. When so much of what happens in court is about negotiations and bargaining behind the scenes, reaching agreements to avoid going to trial, giving the DA a warm feeling about you and your practice can only help clients down the road.
“If you’re practicing in Barnstable County,” said one lawyer who spoke only with the promise he wouldn’t be identified, “giving to the DA isn’t an option, it’s a necessity.”
If you’re a business guy, holding a bunch of licenses, always vulnerable to some kind of unexpected legal problem, having an open line into the DA’s office can turn out to be a very good thing indeed; call that $1000 check cheap insurance.
Crusader has hit the nail on the head once again. Is it personal or do you have friends in high places?
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Personal? I guess you could say, in a way, if you believe that women should all rise above & protest against the injustice of covering up for murders against women--then yes, it is personal. I'm a woman who has read & seen too much violence against women in this country (& around the world) & a public majority that goes silent & accepts the BS the officials & cops dole out. Not good enough--Mav! It all starts at the top. Who does this DA answer to? Anybody? Maybe they all turn a blind eye? It's okay that Linda S., Christa, Shirley R., & Wanda R....get murdered, (Wanda was never found, but presumed dead)are forgotten about? A black man is in jail & we have not been told the real story. No one cares--well some of us do. We have generations of girls who will inherit this dysfunction if these problems within our society are not corrected. All should be accounted for if they hurt another human being. I don't care if it's the Pope! Connect the dots: M.Sullivan-MO-Sheriff,JC-phoney deputies-rogue cops-TFinneran-union presidents-EFD-TPD-NEED I SAY MORE? Yes #2-Cats In Attic.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/17/us_probes_firefighter_disability_abuse/
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