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Let The Wild Sequester Rumpus Begin! (Bankrupting America Edition)
Now that the dreaded sequester is starting to feel like the New Normal, the airwaves are starting to fill up with ads trying to position it as the New Abnormal. First shot (via Politico’s Morning Score): Bankrupting America, a project … Continue reading
The Soar Losers Of Boston’s Ad Industry
Out of apparently nowhere, this ad appeared on the back page of Thursday’s Boston Globe G section: Local ad agency Connelly Partners seems to have pegged its image to what it doesn’t achieve. (Latest loss the hardsearching staff could … Continue reading
NYT’s Revisionist History Re: IHT
Smart Sam Roberts piece in Thursday’s New York Times about the pending demise of the International Herald Tribune brand. Fondly Recalling a ‘Writer’s Paper’ as a Name Goes Away Ghostly vestiges of the gothic Herald Tribune logo still survive on … Continue reading
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Tagged Breathless, Dick Schaap, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I.H.T., International Herald Tribune, International New York Times, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jimmy Breslin, New York Times, Pete Hamill, Red Smith, Sam Roberts, takeover, Tom Wolfe, Washington Post
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Poll Vault At The Boston Herald
Our feisty local tabloid today released a new poll on the U.S. Senate race (which pretty much runs true to form), and gave it that special Herald something. Start with Page One: Two elements of note: 1) the Cryptkeeper photo … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Leonard Lauder At Boston’s MFA
Last night Leonard Lauder – cosmetic executive, philanthropist, collector – came to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to to lecture about the collection of more than 100,000 postcards he’s donated to the MFA. And it was very fine. Lauder, a … Continue reading
Taylor Gives Cape House The Swift
Taylor Swift has made a rapid exit from Cape Cod homeownership, which the local dailies are on like Taylor on . . . whoever. From the Boston Globe’s Namesniks: Taylor Swift on serial boyfriends, home buying in Vanity Fair Singer Taylor Swift tries … Continue reading
Globe: Ortiz Okay; Herald: Papicock!
From our Yesterday’s News Today desk The jury is very much out on David Ortiz in the local dailies. From Nick Cafardo’s piece in [Tuesday’s] Boston Globe: Steady progress has David Ortiz feeling upbeat FORT MYERS, Fla. — David Ortiz feels more optimistic that … Continue reading
Correction o’ the Day (NYT Horse Meat Edition)
From Tuesday’s New York Times Corrections: BUSINESS DAY • A question-and-answer article on Tuesday about horse meat and the American food supply misstated, in some editions, the number of pounds of meatballs Ikea was withdrawing from sale in 14 European countries. It is … Continue reading
Ben Stiller Just Can’t Beat This Kid (II)
The hardsearching staff said earlier that we’d get video of nine-year-old Rebecca Suarez who totally pwned Ben Stiller at the BNP Paribas exhibition match between Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro last night. And here it is (tip o’ … Continue reading
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Ben Stiller Just Can’t Beat This Kid
Great moment in last night’s Madison Square Garden exhibition match between Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin Del Potro. From Newsday: Nine-year-old from Huntington plays with Nadal, Del Potro at Garden Monday night’s exhibition tennis match between Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Stiller, Huntington, Juan Martin del Potro, Madison Square Garden, Newsday, Rafael Nadal, Rebecca Suarez
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