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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Globe & Herald In Photo Finish With Matt Damon
From our Don’t Know What to Make of This desk This is a headscratcher: Carbon-copy photos in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, attributed to different photographers. From the Herald’s Inside Track: Matt Damon: ‘It’s good to be home’ “(Bleeping) disgusting.” Matt … Continue reading
Fox News Joins Boston Herald Welfare Jihad
As the hardreading staff at Two-Daily Town has chronicled, the Boston Herald is hellbent on blaming the Massachusetts welfare system for the Marathon bombings last week. Now comes the cavalry, compliments of Fox News (via Mediaite). The Five Rails Against Boston … Continue reading
Hack Attack By Boston Herald!!
From our Two Different Worlds desk Luckily for us, our feisty local tabloid has dug deep and unearthed the real villains in the Boston Marathon bombings. Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts welfare system. The action gets started on Page One: … Continue reading
NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative
Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube
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Why The NYT Is A Great Website
Above all others, the New York Times has taken to the web like a duck (web-footed!) to water (see the Pulitzer awarded to the paper’s eye-popping multimedia feature Snow Fall for further details). Now comes 4:09:43 (A Moment From the Boston Marathon, Audio … Continue reading
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Tagged 4:09:43, A Momemt from the Boston Marathon, David Abel, Katie Carmona, New York Times, Pulitzer, Snow Fall, Todd Koen
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Boston Globe Photo Page One News In WSJ
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal front page (via The Newseum): Close-up of the photo by David L. Ryan for the Boston Globe: Funny, but the hardwatching staff can’t remember seeing this photo in the Globe itself. Then again, we could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, bullet-riddled boat, David L. Ryan, Getty Images, The Newseum, Wall Street Journal
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What Did Tyler Tweet? Boston Globe Not Seguin
Chalk up yet another homophobic tweet, this time from Boston Bruins player Tyler Seguin. As Track Gal Gayle Fee noted in today’s Boston Herald: Seguin sorry for tweet Bruins baby Tyler Seguin apologized yesterday for a tweet he sent out that some have called homophobic. … Continue reading
WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand (Marathon Bomber Edition)
From our Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing desk Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who’s damned good and has a newly minted Pulitzer to prove it, wrote this yesterday: The Evil in Boston Before we … Continue reading
Howie Carr’s Next Column
You’re Howie Carr and here’s what you wrote in today’s Boston Herald: A hit to Deval Patrick’s welfare state Is Gov. Deval Patrick serious? He doesn’t know the motivation of the terrorists? On Sunday he went on “Face the Nation,” and host … Continue reading
Strong Boston ™ Push For ‘Boston Strong’
From Tuesday’s APM Marketplace: Can you trademark a rallying cry like ‘Boston Strong’? The phrase “Boston Strong” became part of the vernacular last week, after the attack on the Boston Marathon. It was printed on posters. It was on “The … Continue reading
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Tagged Allston Mass., APM, ™, Born Into It, Boston Strong, Chowdaheadz, Huffington Post, Kerim Senkal, Marketplace, trademark
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