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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Boston Herald: All The Clues That Fit, We Print
While most news organizations are still trying to find out what actually did happen last week in the wake of the Marathon bombings, the Boston Herald is busily reporting what will (or won’t) happen. Today’s front page: The story itself . . . Read … Continue reading
NYT Goes To War With WSJ
From our Campaign Outsider Blogeteria desk Monday’s New York Times gave a major facial to crosstown rival Wall Street Journal in this full-page ad targeted to potential advertisers: For the fine-print impaired: The Times’s U.S. audience across desktop, smartphone and … Continue reading
Boston Globe Editorial Gets Cozy With UMass Marketing
The Boston Sunday Globe featured a Special Section – UMass 150 – that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the University of Massachusetts system, “a five-campus university, with a medical school, and locations to the north, the south, and one perched … Continue reading
WSJ: The Bloody Aftermath Of The Boston Marathon Bombings
The Weekend Wall Street Journal features Brigham and Women’s Hospital doctor Emily Loving Aaronson’s first-hand account of the harrowing medical response to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings: On the Front-Lines of Battlefield Triage in Boston Hospital emergency rooms in the Boston … Continue reading
The Tamerlan Tsarnaev Diaries (Boxing Edition)
From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Interesting columns in Saturday’s local dailies about Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s short-lived boxing career. Ron Borges in the Boston Herald: Pro boxer threw punches with ‘evil’ Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2010 … Continue reading
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Newseum: Boston Dailies Not Topnotch
Every day, The Newseum designates the Top Ten Front Pages from daily newspapers. Here’s today’s edition: Notice anything missing among all these Page One headlines about the Hunt/Nightmare of the Marathon bombing being over? Yeah – the Boston dailies. Granted, … Continue reading
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New York Cops Give Props To Herald
On Thursday the hardreading staff noted that the City of New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association ran a “We’re with you” full-page ad in the Boston Globe but not the Boston Herald. So what turns up in Friday’s Herald but this: Coincidence? We … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Totally Beat Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight sort of continued last night as the Boston Herald and WGBH’s Greater Boston broad(web)cast their News Media Hall Monitor shows in the wake of this week’s Marathon bombing. Let’s start, as always, with the Underdog. The … Continue reading
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