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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Drew Pinsky Did Stealth Doctoring For Glaxo
This past week the U.S. Justice Department reached a “$3 billion criminal and civil settlement with Glaxo over illegal drug marketing and other matters,” the Wall Street Journal reported. ‘Dr. Drew’ Was Paid by Glaxo Radio Host Extolled Virtues of Antidepressant … Continue reading
Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Ed Corsetti Edition)
From Saturday’s Boston Globe: Ed Corsetti, 87; reporter cut teeth covering Brink’s robbery in Boston Ed Corsetti was relatively unseasoned when he was assigned to cover what would become one of the biggest stories of his newspaper career: the 1950 … Continue reading
Dead Blogging reThink Ink At The BPL
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Boston Public Library to catch reThink Ink: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio, and, boy, it was swell. From the Mixit Print Studio website (the BPL site is inexplicably down): “By … Continue reading
Let The Whatever Billion Dollar Rumpus Begin!
From our Housekeeping desk Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a sharp front-page piece on the presidential campaigns’ stepped-up digital efforts this time around: Spending on online advertising could exceed $160 million during the 2012 election cycle, up from the $22 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Borrell Associates, Boston Globe, digital, presidential campaigns
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Steve Schwartz Did NOT Miss His Last WGBH Radio Show
Last Friday the hardworking staff worried that Steve Schwartz might be aced out of his final WGBH Jazz from Studio Four show. He was not. And Steve produced a sweet swan song. Sometime around 10 pm he said something like … Continue reading
Did You Ever Want To Talk To Your 12-Year-Old Self?
This guy did (via Mediaite): That is one freaky – and fabulous – video.
Is It The God Particle, Or The Goddamn Particle?
The media rumpus over the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson subatomic particle has now reached critical mass (yuk yuk), but one question that apparently hasn’t been settled is how it was dubbed “the God particle.” From yesterday’s Wall Street … Continue reading
A Monumental Media Monument To Joseph Anthony Welteroth, U.S. Navy
On Wednesday, July 4th, this full-page ad ran in the New York Times: Yesterday it ran – again as a full-page ad – in the Wall Street Journal. Did you catch that part at the bottom of the ad? Dedicated … Continue reading
Our Gala Women’s Olympic Boxing Edition!
Next month female athletes will get their first chance to fight for Olympic gold, but even before that, they’ve adopted some men’s boxing traditions according to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. Moving On From Cappy’s Ring As Women’s Boxing Debuts at … Continue reading
Mitt Zigs, Scott Zags On Obamacare
If Mitt Romney (R-Jet Ski) and Scott Brown (R-Brewski) want their campaign messages to be in step, they’re doing a pretty poor job of keeping off one another’s toes. Start with Romney gunsel Eric-a-Sketch Fehrnstrom’s Monday comment on MSNBC (via … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric-a-Sketch Fehrnstrom, faux pas de deux, individual mandate, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, penalty, Scott Brown, tax
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