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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Battle Of The Bulger (Can I Be A Witness? Edition)
The Boston Globe is reporting on its website that its reporters can cover the trial of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Judge rejects Bulger effort to ban Globe journalists US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper ruled today that Boston Globe columnist Kevin … Continue reading
On Native Advertising, BuzzFeed Schools While Google Scolds
Here’s bad news for anyone who values the separation of advertising and editorial content. “Native advertising is going to be the only advertising. The question is only what people are going to put in those units.” Thus spake BuzzFeed’s Jon … Continue reading
Wait – Nadal CAN Beat This Guy
It was shaping up to be the worst: Rafael Nadal, Le Roi de Roland Garros, up two sets to one, six games to five, thirty-fifteen. Two points from dispatching arch-nemesis Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals – and he … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 Australian Open final, France 2, France 3, France 4, French Open, New York Times, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roland Garros
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Why We Love The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Bruins Cr’ork Penguins In Double Overtime Edition)
Full disclosure: The Pittsburgh Penguins absolutely deserved to win last night’s Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 in the first overtime. But they didn’t. So the Boston Bruins won it in the second overtime: You knew Jaromir Jagr would … Continue reading
Globe Roxburys Violence
From our Compare ‘n’ Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Boston Sunday Globe, Metro Page Two: Woman dies in Roxbury shooting A woman is dead and a man was in serious condition after a shooting in Roxbury Saturday afternoon, Boston police … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Herald Has A Logo Edition)
The Whitey Bulger Trial Bakeoff between the two Boston dailies is officially on, and Sunday’s editions featured the opening salvos. Boston Sunday Globe Page One: Inside spread here . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Welfare Roils Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the Boston Herald’s Press Party addressing “[t]he media’s handling of a scathing audit claiming the state has handed out more than $2 million in welfare benefits to dead people . . . ratings for … Continue reading
Post-Racial America? Ha!
From Saturday’s New York Times: Vitriol Online for Cheerios Ad With Interracial Family The Cheerios spot shows a young girl asking her mother if the cereal is “good for your heart.” Her mother assures her that is so. The girl … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheerios, General Mills, interracial family, New York Times, Obamanauts
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Why We Love The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Bruins Kick Ork! Edition)
Last night the Boston Bruins played about as good a hockey game you’re likely to see: tough, disciplined, strong on the puck, opportunistic. And in the process completely dismantled the vaunted Pittsburgh Penguins. Excellent highlight video compliments of Tyge Brahe: … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Whitey You Can Drive My Carr Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk As the hardreading staff noted earlier, the Boston Herald is all aglow over the imminent trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, especially the personal involvement of its star columnist Howie Carr (who “vowed to watch Whitey every step of … Continue reading
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