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Monthly Archives: December 2012
More Fantasy Friends For Scott Brown?
It wasn’t kings and queens Scott Brown (R-Wonderland) was having imaginary conversations with this time, it was anonymous White House gremlins. From BuzzFeed: Scott Brown Breaks News Of Nonexistent Fiscal Cliff Offer The senator’s scoop falls flat. “Not true,” an … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzfeed, CNN, Facebook, fiscal cliff, Harry Reid, kings and queens, NBC, Scott Brown, Through the Looking Glass, Wonderland
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Our Dogged Local Tabloid II
Sad to say, the Boston Herald’s gala two-part series on the Boston Police K-9 Unit ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. What earned Page One treatment yesterday (plus a 17-paragraph, tw0-video report) is shuffled off to page 11 today, … Continue reading
Hey! Watch It, Buddy! (Ebony Winter Gala Edition)
From Wednesday’s Boston Globe Names column: More than 1,800 guests attended the 25th Ebony Winter Gala, held at the Marriott Boston Copley Place Hotel. The event is sponsored by the NABA-Boston in association with The United Minority Professionals. From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Ebony Winter Gala, NABA-Boston, Names, The United Minority Professionals
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Our Dogged Local Tabloid
The Boston Herald, God love it, is always scrapping to retain its foothold in the local news media, which leads to enterprising front pages like Wednesday’s (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Part One of the series focuses on the K-9 … Continue reading
Facehook: Ads You Like It (Or Not)
From our Two Steps Forward, One Step Back desk Facebook vampire Mark (Data) Suckahberg is at it again, now messing with your messaging feature, described here in typical Facebookese. Translation for the Facebook-impaired, via PR Newser: Facebook To Let Strangers, Brands Send You … Continue reading
WGBH = Whacked Good By Herald
From our While We Were Out desk While the hardreading staff was down the Big Town, the Boston Herald gave WGHB a real thrashing last Friday, featuring this Jessica Heslam column on Page Two: High-living WGBH owes $300G Public TV behemoth WGBH … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Carmen Ortiz, federal fine, Googletron, Jessica Heslam, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney, WGBH
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SEIU Goes Anti-Psychotic
When a local labor union decides to take a workplace dispute public in a newspaper ad campaign, the knee-jerk locale would be the Boston Herald, champion of all things blue-collar. Not so in the case of the SEIU’s current crusade against HealthBridge that … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, HealthBridge, HealthBridgeWatch, SEIU
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Call It Instascram
It started out as the classic Facebook privacy dance: two steps forward, one step back. From CNET this morning, via The Daily Beast: Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos In its first big policy shift since Facebook bought … Continue reading
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Tagged CNet, Daily Beast, Facebook privacy dance, Instagram, PCWorld, Sneak ADtack
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Campaign Outsider 