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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Out Of Editorial Control
From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk The local dailies adopt very different stances in today’s editorials about the Marathon bombing. Start with the Boston Globe, which urges Bostonians to take the high road. After Marathon attack, fellowship … Continue reading
The Mashpee Wampanoags Have (Fake) News For You
From our Massachusetts Casino Roulette desk The Great Massachusetts Casino Bakeoff has entered a new phase with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe crying foul over the state’s decision to open the Southeastern Massachusetts region (which the tribe thought it had locked … Continue reading
Tom Menino Needs To Resign
Yesterday’s horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line should mark the finish line for Tom Menino as Boston’s mayor. Menino was effectively nowhere in the aftermath of the tragic event. Sure, he showed up at a press conference, as … Continue reading
Free The Restoration Hardware One! (Boston Edition)
The Boston Globe reported on Friday, “Restoration Hardware, tweaked and slightly humbled, is planning to finally open its new home furnishings gallery in Boston Saturday.” As the hardworking staff previously noted, the new Restoration Hardware hosted the Worst. Party. Ever. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, New York Times, Restoration Hardware, Worst. Party. Ever.
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Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Bronx Justice Denied Edition)
Sunday’s New York Times front-paged this piece on the broken Bronx criminal courts. Waiting Years for Their Day in the Bronx Courts Outside the courtroom, the children of the murdered man waited with their mother. It had taken five years for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronx, criminal cases, Justice Denied, New York Times, William Glaberson
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Why The Wall Street Journal Is A Great Newspaper (Habemus Papam! Edition)
Granted, the hardworking staff doesn’t read everything, but the Weekend Wall Street Journal provides the first tick-tock we’ve seen on the Pope-a-Scope at the Vatican last month. Fifteen Days in Rome: How the Pope Was Picked The inside story: From … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, habemus papam, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope-a-Scope, Vatican, Wall Street Journal
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The MFA Gets Postcards, The Met Gets Picassos
An object lesson in the difference between The Hub and The Big Town: Last month the hardtrundling staff noted art-lover Leonard Lauder’s lecture about the wonderful collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Yesterday the … Continue reading
State Of The Cuisinart Marketing: BuzzFeed Hits Purée
Big takeout in New York mag this week on BuzzFeed and its forays into the frontiers of native advertising/sponsored content/commerce journalism. Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret? Jonah Peretti’s viral-content machine purports to have solved the problems of both journalism and advertising at … Continue reading
Whitey Wars In Local Dailies
From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Howie Carr, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Kevin Cullen, Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Shelly Murphy, Whitey Bulger, Whitey Bulger's Partner, Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
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