Monthly Archives: February 2013

Boston Herald’s Outside Track: Holly & Scott Tear The Sheets

Our feisty local tabloid’s Lone Republican needs a plus one. Herald columnist Holly Robichaud goes through a very public breakup with former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Pickup and Go) today, right on Page One:   And Holly doesn’t mince words in her column . … Continue reading

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Dead Blogging The Super Bowl Ads

Once around the Super Bowl Adstravaganza, James, and don’t spare the horses. So Super Bowl XLVII turned into a pretty good game out of what seemed to be shaping up as a stinker. Too bad the ads didn’t follow suit. … Continue reading

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Leone’s Share Of Sunday’s U.S. Senate Coverage

The Boston Herald got the jump on the latest candidate to consider jumping into the U.S. Senate race to replace clearly departed John Kerry (D-Empty Seat). Joe Battenfeld’s column today: Leone could be spoiler in race Three’s a crowd for Lynch, Markey … Continue reading

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Ridiculous Quote o’ the Day (Kirsten Hughes Edition)

Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a profile of newly minted Massachusetts Republican Party chairwoman Kirsten Hughes, the bait-and-ditch candidate Scott Brown (R-$$$) backed before he bowed out of the running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by newly minted Secretary of … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Five-Daily Town (R.I.P. Ed Koch Edition)

The New York dailies went all in on the passing of legendary mayor Ed Koch. Page One tributes (all via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages). Newsday:   Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Five-Daily Town (the latest … Continue reading

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Brown Out, The Great Mentioner In

Now that former Sen. Scott Brown (R-$$$) has dropped out of the running for the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate, the local dailies are putting forth very – wait for it – different lists of potential fill-ins. The Boston … Continue reading

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Curses! No More Cursive!!

From our Late to the Party desk First, full disclosure: The hardwriting staff’s penmanship is a total mess, thanks to filling out thousands of Social Security Administration forms in the mid-’70s to get welfare recipients off the hook for overpayments … Continue reading

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NYT Art Market Report Produces NYT Art Market Ad

Several days ago the New York Times featured a front-page piece on the state of the big-bucks fine art market: As Art Values Rise, So Do Concerns About Market’s Oversight When some of the world’s richest people gather for the … Continue reading

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Breaking (The) News: Reporters Now Writing Branded Content

Bad enough that marketers are increasingly creating branded (or custom, as they call it) content. Now journalists are apparently creating it too. From the (unabashedly) liberal AlterNet: Scrambling for Profit, Media Slip ‘Custom Content’ into Mix Some reporters resent rise of … Continue reading

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Herald The Lynchpin For Rep’s U.S. Senate Run

If today’s edition is any indication, the Boston Herald will be Stephen Lynch’s in-House organ during his run to replace departing U.S. Sen.  John Kerry (D-Empty Seat). The feisty local tabloid has one news report (“Some unions already on Lynch’s side”), two … Continue reading

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