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NY Broadsheets See Different Art Auction Action
From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk There’s a shipload of historic fine art up for auction in the Big Town right now, and it’s characterized very differently in the local broadsheets. The Wall Street Journal, not … Continue reading
NYT Celebrates Itself And Sings Itself
From our Walt Whitman desk The New York Times is engaged in a Tongue War with the Wall Street Journal nowadays, and Wednesday’s edition featured the latest volley in the form of this full-page ad: Don’t take all those … Continue reading
Why The Wall Street Journal And The Boston Globe Are Great Newspapers (Norden Family Edition)
Monday’s Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe front pages featured his and her versions of the damage visited upon the Norden family by the Boston Marathon bombings. Boston Globe Page One (via the Globe’s ePaper): WSJ Page One (via … Continue reading
Boston Globe Photo Page One News In WSJ
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal front page (via The Newseum): Close-up of the photo by David L. Ryan for the Boston Globe: Funny, but the hardwatching staff can’t remember seeing this photo in the Globe itself. Then again, we could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, bullet-riddled boat, David L. Ryan, Getty Images, The Newseum, Wall Street Journal
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WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand (Marathon Bomber Edition)
From our Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing desk Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who’s damned good and has a newly minted Pulitzer to prove it, wrote this yesterday: The Evil in Boston Before we … Continue reading
NYT Goes To War With WSJ
From our Campaign Outsider Blogeteria desk Monday’s New York Times gave a major facial to crosstown rival Wall Street Journal in this full-page ad targeted to potential advertisers: For the fine-print impaired: The Times’s U.S. audience across desktop, smartphone and … Continue reading
WSJ: The Bloody Aftermath Of The Boston Marathon Bombings
The Weekend Wall Street Journal features Brigham and Women’s Hospital doctor Emily Loving Aaronson’s first-hand account of the harrowing medical response to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings: On the Front-Lines of Battlefield Triage in Boston Hospital emergency rooms in the Boston … Continue reading
A Jason (No So) Gay Ol’ Time (Bill Rodgers Edition)
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay paid a melancholy visit to Boston Marathon icon Bill Rodgers in the wake of Monday’s tragic bombing. ‘Boston Billy’ Won’t Stop Running I wanted to go see Bill Rodgers, because when I was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Rodgers, Boston Billy, Boston Marathon, Gay Ol' Time, Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
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Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Habemus Papam! Edition)
Granted, the hardworking staff doesn’t read everything, but the Weekend Wall Street Journal provides the first tick-tock we’ve seen on the Pope-a-Scope at the Vatican last month. Fifteen Days in Rome: How the Pope Was Picked The inside story: From … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, habemus papam, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope-a-Scope, Vatican, Wall Street Journal
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For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child
The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading
