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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Invisible Child Edition)
Read this New York Times piece and weep for the 22,000 homeless children in NYC, especially Dasani. It’s a totally heartbreaking story stretching over four full pages of Monday’s Times. Outgoing New York Mayor Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill de Blasio, Dasani, Invisible Child, Michael Bloomberg, New York homeless children, New York Times
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Dead Blogging Andy Warhol At The Rose Art Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University the other day to catch Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography (through December 15) and, say, it was . . . interesting. From the Rose website: … Continue reading
Downtown Scotty Brown Moves To Wall Street (Journal)
The peripatetic Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere) has taken his Hamlet, New Hampshire act to the Big Town. From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Former Senator Weighs a Race Next Door Former Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts likes to joke that … Continue reading
Did NYT Public Editor Just Endorse Pay-for-Play?
In her New York Times column today, Public Editor Margaret Sullivan takes on The Thorny Challenge of Covering China. Thorny in two ways for the Times: First because the Chinese government is aggressively responding to news organizations that produce coverage critical … Continue reading
Our Beat The Press Party Bakeoff (Nelson Mandela Edition)
In this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, it’s not, as often happens, that the local media hall monitors are operating in different universes. It’s that they’re operating on different days. Start as always with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. This … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The NYT ‘Philomena Gets Her Irish Up’ Ad?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, The new film Philomena has opened to great reviews, except maybe for one, as this New York Times movie ad noted on Thursday. Don’t you think … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With BlackBerry’s ‘Department of Defense’ Ads
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, So I’m reading the New York Times the other day and what do I see but this full-page ad: Wait – BlackBerry? Gold … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Bees Can’t Wait’ Ads?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I saw this ad in the New York Times (and the Boston Globe) the other day and I just don’t get it. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask Dr. Ads, Beyond Pesticides, Boston Globe, Center for Food Safety, Ceres Trust, EPA, H.R. 2692, New York Times, Pesticide Action Network, Save-Bees.org, Saving America's Pollinators Act, Surgeon General of the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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More Than One Hitch To Baker/Polito Union
The shotgun wedding between Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker and lieutenant governor hopeful Karyn Polito had its engagement announcement in Monday’s Boston Globe. Running mate issue gets thornier for Charlie Baker Karyn E. Polito, the former Republican legislator who lost a 2010 … Continue reading
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