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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Newtown Victims Edition)
Monday’s Wall Street Journal featured this heartbreaking Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Page 6 featured Profiles of the Victims, even more heart-breaking. The 20 children and six adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School included … Continue reading
Let The Fiscal Cliff Rumpus Begin! (Fix The Debt Edition)
The hardwatching staff has been waiting for Fix the Debt, the Magilla Gorilla of fiscal cliff hall monitors, to weigh in on TV. And now it has. From Politico’s Playbook: Fix the Debt’s first TV ad (60 seconds, national buy), … Continue reading
New Mass. Law: Straight On Red
Is it just the harddodging staff, or are Boston drivers much more lunatic about running red lights these days? It’s not even a close call – cars that are hundreds of feet away routinely bust red lights without a second … Continue reading
Local Dailies Kerry On With Senate Speculation
It’s no secret that the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald inhabit entirely different political landscapes here in the Bay State. Exhibit Umpteen: Their respective takes on who might succeed Sen. John Kerry (D-Reporting for Due-ty) if he gets what … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Ed Markey, Glen Johnson, Howie Carr, John Kerry, Mike Capuano, Secretary of State
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Call It The Ga-GO-sian Gallery
The other day the hardlooking staff noted that Art Shark Damien Hirst had dumped his longtime partner Gagosian Gallery, which last year, as the New York Times Artsbeat blog reported, “gave Damien Hirst all 11 of its spaces around the world … Continue reading
Scott Brown’s Mash Note To Himself
Oddly enough, it was the Boston Globe – not the Boston Herald – that ran this Scott Brown op-ed that was all about . . . him. A pleasure and a privilege FOR THE past three years, I have had the great honor … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Dodd-Frank, Scott Brown, Scottie-Come-Lately
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Sandy, The Aurora Is Risin’ Behind Us
The hardworking staff was perusing Friday’s New York Times when we stumbled upon (print style) this piece by Helene Stapinski about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on the Jersey Shore. And then we saw this: It’s a Wednesday night, a month after … Continue reading
Herald Pulls ‘Crosshairs’ Headline
The hardreading staff noted a few hours ago that the BostonHerald.com homepage had the headline “Kerry in the crosshairs if nominated for state” right next to its coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. To its credit, the paper has now … Continue reading
Unfortunate Headline Of The Day
BostonHerald.com homepage at 1:35 pm: Of course, the Herald couldn’t know, when it wrote the “Kerry in the crosshairs” hed, what would transpire only hours later. But it’s a damn good argument to stop using gun references in … Continue reading
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