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Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Day Little Joe Cook Took Me to (Computer) School
Nice Steve Morse piece in yesterday’s Boston Globe about local blues fixture Little Joe Cook, who died last week at the age of 91. Little Joe Cook, at 91; his falsetto on ‘Peanuts’ a huge hit Standing just under 5-foot-4, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, CGI, ITT Technical Institute, Little Joe Cook, Little Joe Cook & The Thrillers, Peanuts, Steve Morse, worser
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Whatever Happened to ‘The Captain Goes Down with the Ship’?
First there was Francesco Schettino, the idiot captain who literally showboated the Costa Concordia onto some rocks, then fell into a lifeboat before the ship sank. He was the Italian Captain Coward. Now comes the South Korean shipcarnation. From Friday’s Boston Globe … Continue reading
Why We Love the Stanley Cup Bakeoffs (Triple Overtime Edition #1)
At 12:34 this morning the hardlyworking staff was standing in front of the kitchen TV and watching the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues skate into the third overtime of their Western Conference first-round faceoff. Twenty-six seconds later, this happened: … Continue reading
Journalism Is the Second-Worst Job? Hah! Advertisers Are the Least Trusted!
Good news! Journalists are moving up in the professional world! Via MediaBistro’s FishbowlNY: Newspaper Reporter Now Only Second Worst Career Good news, newspaper reporters of the nation, your job is now only the second worst career choice a person could make. … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising Age, CareerCast, FishbowlNY, GfK, Graham Chapman, hucksters, journalists, lumberjack, MediaBistro, Monty Python, The Data Issue, top 200 jobs
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NYT Also Excels at Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage
As you all undoubtedly know by now, the Boston Globe has won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for its Breaking News Reporting of last year’s Marathon bombings. Less noticed locally is the New York Times Feature Photography Pulitzer for Josh Haner’s “moving essay on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Richard, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Breaking News Reporting, Brian McGrory, Dan Kennedy, David Abel, Denise Richard, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Feature Photography, Henry Richard, J.P. Norden, Jane Richard, Jessica Rinaldi, Josh Haner, Katharine Q. Seelye, Martin Richard, Media Nation, New York Times, Paul Norden, Pulitzer Prize
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Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Stephen Colbert Edition)
The Thursday Curse struck again in the latest episode of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the local hall monitors. Start with the Boston Herald’s Press Party, which featured this lineup in its Wayne’s World webcast on Thursday: On this … Continue reading
What Can Brown Do for New Hampshire? (Pickup Truck Edition)
On Monday former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere) will launch the first TV spot in his Quixotic Quest to become a Two State Senator (pat. pending) by beating Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire. From Politico’s Morning Score: SCOTT BROWN … Continue reading
Big Town v. Bean Town (Guggenheim Fellowship Edition)
Every year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships “to assist research and artistic creation.” And, as is its wont, the Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce its 2014 recipients. Massachusetts artists, scholars, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Christopher Castellani, Elena Ruehr, Five Boroughs, Grub Street, Guggenheim Fellowships, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Leading Men, MIT, New York, New York Times, no promo, Patty Chang, Roomful of Teeth, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sven Hedin, the Big Town, The Wandering Lake, The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia
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Quote o’ the Day (Jason Gay Ol’ Time Edition)
Difficulty is part of golf’s mystique; suffering is baked into the experience; exasperation part of the addiction. Humility is why golf is golf. Golf is not supposed to be always fun. If golf was supposed to be always fun, it … Continue reading
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