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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Local Dailies Taking Care Of (One Another’s) Business
In a variation on the old Does Macy’s Tell Gimbel’s? question, the Globe is telling on the Herald – and vice versa. From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Globe circulation continues climb Paid digital subscriptions rise nearly 50% Paid circulation at The Boston Globe continues to climb … Continue reading
NYT Celebrates Itself And Sings Itself
From our Walt Whitman desk The New York Times is engaged in a Tongue War with the Wall Street Journal nowadays, and Wednesday’s edition featured the latest volley in the form of this full-page ad: Don’t take all those … Continue reading
A Tale Of Two Columnists (Jason Collins Edition)
Joe Fitzgerald plays yin to Adrian Walker’s yang in the local dailies today regarding Jason Collins’ coming-out party. Here’s how Walker starts out his Boston Globe column: Jason Collins’ quiet facilitator When Jason Collins got in touch with his friend US … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (John Keats Edition)
From our Late to the Poet desk Several weeks ago Michael Dirda wrote a review in the Weekly Standard of John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe. It starts out this way: Poet of Loss Dead at 25, Keats … Continue reading
Holocaust Denier Targets Boston University’s Elie Weisel
Jett Rucker of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (read: Committee for Open Denial of the Holocaust) has sent a letter to the editor of The Daily Free Press at Boston University denouncing Elie Weisel, founder of BU’s Center for … Continue reading
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