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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Baby I Can Drive My Carr
From our Walt Whitman desk By now it’s clear to the hardreading staff – as it should be to everyone – that the trial of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is about one thing and one thing only: Howie Carr. The Boston Herald … Continue reading
Boston Globe Blows Off Story That Vladimir Putin Stole Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ring
The Names column in the Boston Sunday Globe featured this item: That’s nothing. Here’s what the New York Post reported about the same event, as the hardworking staff has previously noted: Kraft: Putin stole Bowl ring New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft revealed … Continue reading
Robert Kraft: Putin Stole My Super Bowl Ring
Talk about Patriotic! The New York Post reports that Pats owner Robert Kraft wasn’t exactly telling the truth in 2005 when he said he’d given his Super Bowl ring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin just took it, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged George W. Bush, kleptocracy, Mediaite, New York Post, Ricki Noel Lander, Robert Kraft, Russia, Super Bowl ring, Vladimir Putin
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Hark! The Herald! (Lame Subscription Edition)
THE BOSTON HERALD WANTS YOU to swell the ranks of its current 17 home subscribers. So it ran this ad in today’s edition: Always Relevant? Seriously? Here’s Page One of the sports section Herald home subscribers received this morning . … Continue reading
Why We Love The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Bruins WIN In Overtime Edition)
Last night’s Stanley Cup Final game was another overtime corker, yeah? And this time Somethin’ Bruin was on the winning side of poetic justice. First, a minute and a half into overtime Jaromir Jagr rang one off the crossbar – only … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Different Strokes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight finds our local hall monitors addressing very different topics. Boston Herald Press Party rundown. WGBH’s Beat the Press had a different agenda: the Whitey Bulger trial coverage, a WCVB/Nstar partnership, modernizing PBS’s NewsHour, and … Continue reading
Globe Take On Parking Wars Is Spot-On
It’s not often that the Boston Globe out-tabloids the Boston Herald, but today’s one of those times thanks to this Page One story: The, er, money quote . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Charles Schwab Ad: Don’t Talk To Chuck (II)
The hardsaving staff recently noted the new Own your tomorrow print ad from Charles Schwab (rough translation: Don’t talk to Chuck. You’re on your own). Now comes the TV spot, whose visuals – minus the Mt. Rushmore shots of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelphi University, Charles Schwab, Don't Talk to Chuck, Own your tomorrow
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