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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Joe K 3.0: My Left Hand
From yesterday’s Boston Globe’s Names column: Congressman Joe Kennedy talks to nonprofits Congressman Joe Kennedy gave a pat on the back to a bunch of nonprofits at a gathering hosted by the Highland Street Foundation. Attendees included Regina Snowden of Partners for Youth With Disabilities,Sana Fadel of … Continue reading
What’s This? The Herald Track Gal (Without Laura!)
From our Late to the Going-Away-Party desk The hardreading staff yields to no man in its admiration for the Boston Herald’s Track Gals (without Megan!). But this is too much. First it was zany sidekick Megan Johnson. Gone! Now it’s Track … Continue reading
Sex Change At Feisty Local Tabloid!
The hardreading staff doesn’t know what they’ve done with the real Boston Herald, but here’s how it looks today: Seriously. And here’s the feature story . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Boston Globe Lil Poops Out
From our Late to the Poopy desk Yesterday the hardreading staff noted the Lil Poopypalooza at the Boston Herald: What we failed to note was the corresponding Boston Globe coverage of the Poopyfuffle . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in … Continue reading
Big Data-mining Is No Laugh RIOT (Raytheon Division)
The hardtracking staff heard a segment last night on the CBC radio show Q (podcast here) about a new surveillance system developed by Raytheon and reported by James Ball of The Guardian: Why we should all worry about being tracked online ‘Riot’ software developed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bother, CBC, James Ball, Q, Raytheon, RIOT software, Sneak ADtack, The Guardian
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Hark! The Herald! (Lil Poopy Edition)
Today’s Boston Herald gets all Whitmanesque celebrating itself and singing itself while delivering the straight poop on nine-year-old rapper Smallie Bigs – sorry, Lil Poopy. Start at the top of Page One: Obligatory two-page spread . . . Read the rest at … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Lil Poopy, Smallie Bigs
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Herald Held Hostage By Reality, Day One
Stop the presses! The Schadenfreude Gazette has actually stipulated to the facts about the imminent sale of crosstown rival Boston Globe. From today’s edition of the feisty local tabloid: Rupert Murdoch has ‘no interest’ in the Boston Globe Media titan quashes talk of bid … Continue reading
NBC = Not Being Competitive
The Peacock Network has plummeted to new depths in the latest ratings period. From the New York Times: In Turnabout, NBC Prime Time Lands in the Cellar With every passing week, the sudden blossoming of prime-time success that NBC experienced last fall … Continue reading
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Tagged NBC, New York Times, Not Being Competitive, Now Beaten Corporation, Univision
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Gabriel Gomez Pays To Tweet
Gabriel Gomez, who’s trying to buy enough signatures to get himself on the ballot for the U.S. Senate special election we have every couple of years, won’t give media interviews, but he will pony up for tweets. Mr. Gomez – … Continue reading
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Tagged Gabriel Gomez, GOP primary, Navy SEAL, promoted tweets, Twitter, U.S. Senate special election
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On Second Thought, Let’s Not Skip Over Howie Carr’s Latest Bulk-Mail Offering
Earlier today, the hardreading staff wrote this in assessing the latest Boston Herald assault on its crosstown rival Boston Globe’s imminent sale: Let’s skip over Howie Carr’s bulk-mail offering (“I have next to nothing in common with the pampered pukes of Morrissey Boulevard — … Continue reading
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