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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Look At Me, I’m Sandra Lee
The original: The revival, via New York magazine’s cover story about Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his First Girlfriend: The Ravenous and Resourceful Sandra Lee Determined to become a down-market Martha Stewart, she parlayed her miserable childhood into a Food Network … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Cuomo, Big Town, Food Network, New York magazine, New York Times, Sandra Dee, Sandra Lee
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FOIAed Again
Old friend Dan Kennedy posted this several days ago on his essential Media Nation blog: In Wisconsin, a FOIA request too far As a journalist, my inclination is to support public-records laws that guarantee maximum disclosure. As an ordinary citizen, … Continue reading
R.I.P. George Tooker
From today’s New York Times obituary pages: George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90 George Tooker, a painter whose haunting images of trapped clerical workers and forbidding government offices expressed a peculiarly 20th-century brand of anxiety and alienation, … Continue reading
WSJ’s NPR Letters Nail Jell-O To The Wall
From Monday’s Wall Street Journal Letters to the Editor: It Is Time for NPR to Get Real About Its World View According to Steve Inskeep’s “Liberal Bias at NPR?” (op-ed, March 24), in surveys of National Public Radio listeners most identify … Continue reading
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The Latest Twit On Twitter: Marc Jacobs
What is it about Twitter that makes tweeters so boneheaded? Call the roll. • Kenneth Cole during the Egyptian uprising (via Ad Age): • Aflac spokesvoice Gilbert Gottfried after the Japanese earthquake/tsunami (via Mashable): “Japan called me. They said ‘maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Aflac, Chrysler, dead blogging, dead tweeting, Egypt, Gilbert Gottfried, Japan, Kenneth Cole, Marc Jacobs, Motor City, The Cut, tweeters, Twitter
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The Redemption Unit, VIII
(Previously on The Redemption Unit: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII) The CRTs started drifting off one by one. In some cases they found better jobs; in others they just couldn’t face another claimant. Either way their caseloads, as the claimants were known collectively, migrated … Continue reading
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Tagged A Modest Analogy, Free Nameless News, Loony Squad, Miss Havisham, Prince High, SSA, The Redemption Unit
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Teen Texting + Sexting=Perplexing
Man, I’d hate to be a teenager today. From Sunday’s Boston Globe front page: Connected, exhausted Texting teenagers who stay ‘on call’ all night pay the price in lost sleep Brookline 10th-grader Ashley Olafsson sleeps with her cellphone under her … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Big Dig/Ray Flynn Twofer Edition)
On Saturday, the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe both reported that the dangers of corroded light casings in Big Dig tunnels had been withheld from the public for weeks. Globe version: Expert warned lights a danger Sounded alert 2 … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Dig, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, corroded light casings, home burglarized, Ray Flynn
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Joe Nocera’s NYT Business Page Swan Song
Nice farewell piece by business columnist Joe Nocera in Saturday’s New York Times: In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan A few weeks ago, when the Justice Department decided not to prosecuteAngelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide, I wrote a … Continue reading
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WSJ’s NPR Commenters Nail Jell-O To The Wall
NPR anchor Steve Inskeep’s Wall Street Journal op-ed last week defending NPR against charges of liberal bias has thus far drawn numerous Letters to the Editor and even more Web comments (919 by last count). Representative sample: William Ledsham wrote: … Continue reading →