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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Aaron Sorkin + Leon Wieseltier = Get Me Outta Here!
From our Worst Nightmare desk The hardworking staff just received this email from The New Republic: That’s some pairing, yeah? You’ve got Sorkin, whose The Newsroom is the show about journalism that journalists love to hate, teamed up with Wieseltier, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, HBO, Leon Wieseltier, Pomposity Index, Smug-o-Meter, The New Republic, The Newsroom
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Hark! The Herald! (‘National Honor’ Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald’s incessant Garage Broadband Radiostream gets front-page treatment for the umpteenth time in a row today. And what is this “National Honor”? 36th place in a list published by a radio industry website whose traffic … Continue reading
Still No Letters To The Editor About Globe Sale
This is Day Four of the Sale-itary Confinement of letters to editor about John Henry’s purchase of the Boston Globe. As the hardreading staff noted earlier, there wasn’t a single letter in the Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday editions of the … Continue reading
Why No Letters To The Editor About Boston Globe Sale?
Red Sox owner John Henry’s bargain-basement purchase of the Boston Globe has generated plenty of news coverage this week. But, oddly, no Letters to the Editor in the stately local broadsheet. Monday’s letters: Tuesday’s letters . . . Read the rest at It’s Good … Continue reading
Websites Draft Editorial Staffs To Craft Native Advertising
Native advertising/sponsored content/brand journalism is all the webrage these days, and media sites are falling all over themselves to figure out the best way to provide stealth marketing to advertisers. Now Digg this (via Digiday): Native Ads: The Digg Way For … Continue reading
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Tagged Betaworks, brand journalism, Digiday, Gawker, Huffington Post, HuffPost Partner Studiio, L'Oréal, native advertising, Paranoia, Sneak ADtack, sponsored content, Vi
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Boston Herald Radio Daze
It’s official. The Boston Herald is no longer a newspaper. It is merely a promotional vehicle for the Herald’s Garage Broadband Radio webstream. Today’s edition of the dicey local tabloid features four – count ‘em, four – pages devoted to BHR, starting … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (A-Roid Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Well our feisty local tabloid won another big award yesterday – a coveted Top Ten Front Pages nod from the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages. Judgment Day Today is the day that Major League Baseball is expected to suspend … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Boston Herald Radio Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight proceeded apace last Friday, with both local media hall monitors assessing the Boston Herald’s new Garage Broadband Radio station scheduled to debut this week. Start, as usual, with the Underdog: the Herald’s Wayne’s World webcast, … Continue reading
Time Warner Cable’s CBS Retransmission Rumpus
From our Been There Done That desk Time Warner Cable is embroiled in yet another retransnsmission battle, this time with CBS in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and elsewhere. From USA Today: Time Warner Cable drops CBS in New York, … Continue reading
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Tagged CBS, Dallas, FLIX, Los Angeles, New York, New York Times, Showtime, Smithsonian, Time Warner Cable, TMC, USA Today
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Boston Globe Herald Hostage (‘More Higher Bid’ Edition)
As you’d expect, the Boston Herald is on John Henry’s purchase of its crosstown rival like Brown on Williamson. Here’s today’s double-barreled shot at the Globe (don’t ask about the little green numbers – dunno): To get a sense of … Continue reading
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