Media Maven

I'm sorry to hear of the passing of former Western New England College Professor John Andrulus, who fought harder than anyone to keep the Republican Party alive in Northampton. Here he is campaigning in 2012.

Speaking of political people, at the Haymarket recently I ran into Hamp media maven David Pakman.

Actually, Pakman has been working mostly out of Boston these days, but he used to be everywhere in the local media scene back in the day, such as this picture I took back in 2009 of him interviewing then City Councilor (now Mayor) David Narkewicz.

Here he is with former (thank God) Governor Deval Patrick at Smith:

Here he is with former (thank God) Congressman Barney Frank at UMass:

Of course even media mavens have to clean the snow off their car.

As you might expect coming out of Northampton, David is pretty liberal, however, he wisely rejects the lurch toward the far left by Democrats in recent months:



I ran into another media dude the other day, Greg Saulmon of the Springfield Newspapers, and took this slightly blurry pic:

Saulmon was in a non-journalistic role that night - performing with his band King Radio as part of the summer concert series. Because I arrived at Pulaski Park shortly after the concert ended, I couldn't make a video of King Radio's performance, but here's a video I found from a show last winter: