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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Damn! Rafa Can’t Even Beat THIS Guy
What’s with the tennis journeymen who play the match of their lives against Rafael Nadal? (See 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol at last year’s Wimbledon for details.) Latest edition: Yesterday’s finals loss at the VTR Open in Chile to Horacio Zeballos, only … Continue reading
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Tagged Chile, clay court final, Horacio Zeballos, Lukas Rosol, Novak Djokovic, Rafa, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, VTR Open, Wimbledon
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It Blows To Live In A No-Daily Town (Nemo Edition)
Once again, no newspapers for the hardreading staff. So, it’s back to the ePapers. Front pages first. (We’re starting to feel like Fiorello Laguardia during New York’s 1945 newspaper strike.) Boston Herald . . . Read the rest at … Continue reading
Snow Kidding! New York Dailies In Storm Coverage Photo Finish
What are the odds that three of the four Big Town dailies would feature the same Page One photo in their coverage of this weekend’s big storm? Pretty good, as the Poynter website reported yesterday: Same photo appears on front pages of … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-ePaper Town (Nemo Edition)
Well the hardreading staff just trundled around Brookline Village in search of newspapers to no avail, so we decide to hie ourselves over to the local ePapers for a quick compare-and-contrast. First, the front pages. Boston Herald: Boston Globe . … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, ePaper, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Nemo
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Two-Daily Town Goes Digital!
No papers for you today!! (One screamer for each daily.) So the hardreading staff will be poking around the digital editions of the local dailies today. For starters: home pages. Boston Herald: Boston Globe: Back atchya with E-Papers soon. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Nemo
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Saddest Headline Ever: Journalists Take Refuge In The World Of Branded Content
From our Over to the Dark Side desk New York Observer reporter Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke chronicles the increasing migration of journalists to the stealth marketing industry: Journalists Take Refuge in the World of Branded Content Until December, Melissa Lafsky Wall was the editor of Newsweek’s … Continue reading
Own A Piece Of Boston’s MFA
This coming Thursday Swann Galleries in New York is auctioning off a bundle of African-American artworks currently owned by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as the hardworking staff has previously noted. Back then an MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us that … Continue reading
Herald Beats Globe In Boston Storm History Bakeoff
The Boston Herald might have missed out on the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages today, but the feisty local tabloid is far superior in the Boston Big Storms graphics showdown with the Globe. The stately local broadsheet featured a standard-issue bar chart on Page … Continue reading
Globe Beats Herald In Storm Front (Page) Bakeoff
The Boston Herald has long been a self-promotion machine, touting some coverage that led to government action or crowing about its inclusion in the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages on a particular day. But not today, because that latter distinction belongs to crosstown rival Boston Globe. … Continue reading
Foxy Brown, Action Figure
Another crisscross in the local dailies as former Sen. Scott Brown (R-$$$) mulls over joining the madcap crew at Fox News. The Boston Globe front-pages it,; the Boston Herald relegates it to page 12. From the feisty local tabloid: Job may … Continue reading
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