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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Free The Bobby Allyn One! Hardwrecking Staff Unfair To NYT Reporter!
Yesterday the hardworking staff unfairly piled on New York Times freelancer Bobby Allyn, who was the object of one of the paper’s corrections. (Sorry no link – we’re iPadlocked.) In doing so, we violated rule number one of journalism mishaps: … Continue reading
Herald’s Gelzinis: Cahill A Good Guy. Globe’s Vennochi: Good Law, Bad Case
Two different – but not necessarily contradictory – takes in the local dailies about former Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill’s close call with the law over financial shenanigans in the Bay State’s 2010 gubernatorial race. First up: Joan Vennochi’s column in Thursday’s Boston Globe: With … Continue reading
Correction o’ the Day (NYT Doozie Edition)
From Friday’s New York Times Corrections: NATIONAL An article on Feb. 19 about the debate over a $2.6 billion effort to build two bridges linking Kentucky and southern Indiana contained a number of errors. That number being seven – count ’em, seven – … Continue reading
Let The Wild Sequester Rumpus Begin! (Bankrupting America Edition)
Now that the dreaded sequester is starting to feel like the New Normal, the airwaves are starting to fill up with ads trying to position it as the New Abnormal. First shot (via Politico’s Morning Score): Bankrupting America, a project … Continue reading
The Soar Losers Of Boston’s Ad Industry
Out of apparently nowhere, this ad appeared on the back page of Thursday’s Boston Globe G section: Local ad agency Connelly Partners seems to have pegged its image to what it doesn’t achieve. (Latest loss the hardsearching staff could … Continue reading
NYT’s Revisionist History Re: IHT
Smart Sam Roberts piece in Thursday’s New York Times about the pending demise of the International Herald Tribune brand. Fondly Recalling a ‘Writer’s Paper’ as a Name Goes Away Ghostly vestiges of the gothic Herald Tribune logo still survive on … Continue reading
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Poll Vault At The Boston Herald
Our feisty local tabloid today released a new poll on the U.S. Senate race (which pretty much runs true to form), and gave it that special Herald something. Start with Page One: Two elements of note: 1) the Cryptkeeper photo … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Leonard Lauder At Boston’s MFA
Last night Leonard Lauder – cosmetic executive, philanthropist, collector – came to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to to lecture about the collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to the MFA. And it was very fine. Lauder, a … Continue reading
Taylor Gives Cape House The Swift
Taylor Swift has made a rapid exit from Cape Cod homeownership, which the local dailies are on like Taylor on . . . whoever. From the Boston Globe’s Namesniks: Taylor Swift on serial boyfriends, home buying in Vanity Fair Singer Taylor Swift tries … Continue reading
Globe: Ortiz Okay; Herald: Papicock!
From our Yesterday’s News Today desk The jury is very much out on David Ortiz in the local dailies. From Nick Cafardo’s piece in [Tuesday’s] Boston Globe: Steady progress has David Ortiz feeling upbeat FORT MYERS, Fla. — David Ortiz feels more optimistic that … Continue reading
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