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Monthly Archives: November 2012
(Alex) Beam Up The Mormons!
For all of you wondering where Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam has been for lo these many months, the answer came at the end of his Wednesday op-ed: Globe columnist Alex Beam is writing a book about Joseph Smith. A-hah! What … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Beam, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Church of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith, LDS, McKay Coppins, Mitt Romney, Mormons
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald’s Breaking News: Herald Breaking News)
Walt (“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”) Whitman would love the Boston Herald today. The feisty local tabloid devotes Page One to . . . itself! Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: Read the rest at IGTLTDT.
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Tagged Boston Herald, IGTLTDT, Song of Myself, The Newseum, Today's Front Pages, Walt Whitman
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Upper Crustfallen Edition)
Full disclosure: The hardlunching staff has boycotted the Upper Crust pizza chain ever since the Boston Globe revealed its sleazy labor tactics in a series of reports last year. So it was with mixed emotions (good for the exploited workers/bad for the … Continue reading
There’ll Always Be A Brookline (Styrofoam Ban Edition)
With apologies (but no trademark infringement) to The New Yorker As of next December, the hardcaffeinating staff will be buying its coffee elsewhere from the People’s Republic of Brookline. Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Styrofoam ban approved in Brookline Vote boots Styrofoam … Continue reading
It’s Good To LIve In A Two-Times Co. Town (College Live/Deadstock Edition)
Looks like the New York Times is rippin’ off its kissin’ cousin, the Boston Globe. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Monday’s Globe piece about Green Mountain College being oxymarooned: Lou the ox is quietly euthanized at Vt. college Injured animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill the ox, Boston Globe, Green Mountain College, IGTLTDT, Lou the ox, New York Times
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (John Kerryoke’s Musical Chairs)
It’s Post time at the local dailies in the race to cover the Obama administration’s national security team fire drill. Both papers pick up a Washington Post story this morning. The Globe’s version, predictably, is lengthier . . . Read … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, IGTLTDT, John Kerry, secretary of defense, Washington Post
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Boston Globe Remembers Legendary Herald Reporter Joe Heaney)
The Boston Globe, which the hardreading staff has noted for its record of slowbituaries, checks in early with this obit (boink! sorry, paywall) of Boston Herald reporter Joe Heaney: Joe Heaney, 82; longtime Boston Herald reporter During his career as a reporter for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Joe Heaney, Ray Flynn, Slowbituaries
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A Jason Gay Ol’ Time (The Great Laker Freakout Edition)
The Wall Street Journal’s redoubtable Jason Gay submitted this column in Monday’s edition of the paper: The Great Laker Freakout Who’s ready to give a big whoop about the discombobulated Los Angeles Lakers? Not me! It’s November, buster. Waaaay too … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Remembering Legendary Herald Reporter Joe Heaney)
Sunday’s Boston Herald featured a fond farewell to former reporter Joe Heaney, described by a co-worker as “just a wonderful man with a big, kind heart and witticisms to the end of time.” His time ended, Heaney received a two-gun salute, … Continue reading
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