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Monthly Archives: January 2013
A Chelsea Morning In The Local Dailies
Two very – wait for it – different takes on former Chelsea Housing Authority honcho Michael McLaughlin in this morning’s Boston papers. The Globe puts the story in the power position: Page One, upper right . . . Read the rest … Continue reading
Did Armstrong Lance The Boil? Not So Much
From our Lance Armstrong Death Watch desk According to ad industry bible Advertising Age, it’s Kaddish for Lance Armstrong in the marketing world. Lance Armstrong Blew His Last Chance, Experts Say Other Disgraced Athletes Have Made Comebacks, So How Marketable … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, Kaddish, Lance Armstrong, marketability, Oprah Winfrey, spinning his wheels, Tour de France
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Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (American Future Whatever Edition)
More slop from the Chuckleheads. Via ABC’s The Note: With a little over a week before the Senate Armed Services Committee begins confirmation hearings on former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be the next Secretary of Defense, the television air wars … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Hillary Clinton Edition III)
From BuzzFeed: Ron Johnson: Hillary Clinton Planned To Get Emotional To Evade Questions “I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card,” the senator … Continue reading
Herald Shoots Sharper on New Suffolk Sheriff
Three little words signal the difference between the local dailies today in their coverage of the new Suffolk County sheriff. Boston Globe: Aide named to replace Cabral as sheriff Tompkins began inmates program Governor Deval Patrick appointed a former aide … Continue reading
Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (Americans For Whatever Edition II)
Add another voice to the Americans for Chucking Chuck Hagel chorus. From ABC’s The Note: Anti-Chuck Hagel Forces Take To The TV Airwaves An upstart organization run by several former Romney campaign staffers is hitting the airwaves in five states … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC's The Note, Americans for a Strong Defense, Chuck Hagel, Iran, North Korea, Russia, secretary of defense
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You’re A Jinxele . . . You Are A Jinxele . . .
(With apologies to Hubie and Bertie) Both local dailies had items on Anna Burns (This Wife Is on Fire!) Welker’s Facebook flameout after the Pats and hubby Wes dropped the ball in Sunday’s AFC title tilt. Boston Herald’s Inside Track: Wes Welker’s … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (Aaron Swartz Edition)
The tangled tale of Aaron Swartz, the computer genius/hacker who hanged himself earlier this month in the midst of an aggressive prosecution for computer and wire fraud by local U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, got a bit more tangled yesterday. From Monday’s … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With The News Media (Chapter Umpteen: The Inaugural Poem)
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk This is classic: Instead of just letting its audience listen to Richard Blanco read the Inaugural Poem, ABC News had to keep peppering viewers with factoids, as if the poem itself wasn’t worthy of … Continue reading
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