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Monthly Archives: November 2009
The Globe 100
So the Boston Globe published its advertiser-friendly Globe 100 Top Places to Work glossy magazine on Sunday, and the list was very instructive. Especially since there were no media organizations on it, with the notable exception of cable and communications … Continue reading
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PShaws
Well the Missus and I stopped by the new Shaws/Star Market in Chestnut Hill and here is our initial impression: It’s where Rube Goldberg would shop for groceries if he were still alive. For starters, the actual merchandise is on … Continue reading
It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town
Poor Boston Red Sox owner and newlywed John Henry: His hedge fund, John W. Henry & Co., is reportedly down from $2.5 billion to a mere $188 million. That’s the B-to-M Jackpot® every hedge fund fears. Consequently Henry has slashed a … Continue reading
Fort Punt Channel
So the Missus and I went down to the South End for First Friday Open Studios and ran into Lisa Greenfield, a terrific artist who works out of Fort Point Channel. And she – [Note to City Hall: Lisa is … Continue reading
Re-Re-Checkin’ NECN
For those of you keeping score at home, this is the third time the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider has written about regional cable news outfit NECN and its slow-motion dismantling of the traditional firewall between advertising and editorial content. … Continue reading
Yank You Very Much
Bits & pieces from the Yankees’ 2009 World’s Serious win: • If Game 6 was Hideki Matsui’s swan song in the Bronx, that was one sweet sound. • Andy Pettitte is what used to be called a hoss – as … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Election Day
So I woke up Election Day and here’s what I found in my emailbox: “Mayor Tom Menino is now following you on Twitter!” My first instinct, of course, was “that can’t be good.” But then I thought, “it must be … Continue reading
Yanked Around, Part Three
Well that was tantalizing, yes? The question going into Game 5 of the Yankees-Phillies World Series bakeoff (or is that baseoff?) was: Who can replicate his first pitching gem from this Series – Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee or New York’s A.J. … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends: Mass. Senate Race
From the race to (don’t say) replace Ted Kennedy: • If you only watched television, you’d think Steve Pagliuca was running unopposed for the U.S. Senate. (He’s got ads on USA’s NCIS retreads for heaven’s sake.) Pagliuca (accent on the “pal”) … Continue reading
Kinda Yanked Around
Joba the Hurt. That’s how Game 4 of the World’s Serious felt in the bottom of the eighth when the Phillies’ light-hitting (at best) third baseman Pedro Feliz homered off Yankee reliever Joba Chamberlain. But then it all turned around … Continue reading
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