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Monthly Archives: March 2011
It’s Good To Live In a Two-Daily Town (Hat Trick Edition)
Forget what the hardworking staff has said about the Boston Herald being a lively index to the Boston Globe. Tuesday’s editions of the local dailies are a tale of two cities. Exhibit A: Larry Summers Time BH: Summers praises Mass. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Facebook, Larry Summers, Mitt Romney, Pres. Obama, Sal DiMasi, Scott Brown
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Editors’ Note o’ The Day (Jay Maeder Edition)
From Tuesday’s New York Times: EDITORS’ NOTE A City Room article on Monday about renewed criticism of the “Rough Boy” statue at Queens Borough Hall included descriptions of the historical background very similar to material the same author had published … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily News, Editors' Note, George Washington Bridge, Jay Maeder, New York Times, NYTPicker, Rough Boy
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BP Puts Easy Street On Easy Street
BP has spent untold millions on its Make It Right advertising campaign, designed to convince the public that the oil giant is undoing the damage caused by its giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Exhibit ZZZ: This TV … Continue reading
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Tagged BP, Charlie Sheen, Easy Street, Gulf Coast, Make It Right, Rick Scali
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WCVB Ripped Off By North Carolina Station?
Via MediaBistro’s TV Spy: The Highest Form of Flattery? WNCT Airs Nearly Identical Promo as WCVB Handy side-by-side video comparison: Weird, eh? TV Spy explanation: In February, WCVB’s Sean Kellytraveled to Kabul and reported on the work of a Massachusetts National … Continue reading
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Tagged Assignment: Afghanistan, Chris Brown, MediaBistro, Sean Kelly, TV Spy, WCVB, WNCT
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Edward R Murrow On ‘What’s My Line?’
Via RTNDA: Don’t miss the last two minutes.
The Redemption Unit, VII
(Previously on The Redemption Unit: I, II, III, IV, V, VI) Pay It Backward When the last claimant’s benefits had been redetermined and the government added up its losses, it immediately decided to recoup them by initiating the Overpayment Recovery Program. Letters went out – … Continue reading
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Tagged overpayments, Pay It Backward, Social Security Administration, SSI, The Redemption Unit
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RomneyFare®: Not So Good In NYT
Front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the jobs-based focus of once and future presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-Pretzel Logic), who undoubtedly wishes he’d been relegated to page A23. Nut graf: The message is well suited to Mr. Romney’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, New York Times, ObamaCare, R-Pretzel Logic, RomneyCare, RomneyFare
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MoDo Grabs The Big Chair At NYT
Before Frank Rich’s laptop is even cold, New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd has slipped into the paper’s Week in Review Spotlight Column (see dead-tree edition for what they call in D.C. “the optics”): Governor Brown Redux: The Iceman … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Rich, Jerry Brown, Maureen Dowd, MoDo, New York Times, Op-It Girl, standowd-issue
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WSJ NOT The Assignment Desk For NPR
Yesterday the hardworking staff wondered if there was any relationship between the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Interview with Paul Johnson and a segment on Weekend All Things Considered, since both compared the current Middle East uprisings with the widespread European … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 revolutions, All Things Considered, Guy Raz, Middle East, NPR, Paul Johnson, Wall Street Journal
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Lit Crit At The Back Bay Borders
The Borders on Boylston/Newbury Street is one sad-assed retail outlet, what with its STORE CLOSING banners and “This Fixture Not For Sale” signs (not yet, anyway). But the mood was lightened Saturday afternoon by a gaggle of girls sitting alongside … Continue reading
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