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Dear WGBH: This. Totally. Blows.
At 12:15 Monday morning, as is our wont, the hardworking staff repaired to the Global Worldwide Headquarters to do a little ruminating and construing, as is also our wont. And, as usual, we flipped on the radio to 89.7 FM, … Continue reading
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Tagged 89.7 FM, 99.5 FM, Classical New England, Eric Jackson, Jazz with Bob Parlocha
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Boston Globe Slowbituaries ( Stephen Bankuti Edition)
Hard on the heels of our last installment of this regular feature, the Sunday Boston Globe featured this obit: Stephen Bankuti, 78; Sudbury soccer coach fought in Hungarian resistance As a boy in Hungary, Stephen Bankuti defused land mines in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Ed Corsetti, Slowbituaries, Stephen Bankuti, Sudbury soccer coach
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More Loving Memories Of Joseph Anthony Welteroth, U.S. Navy
Turns out the sons (Joseph, Michael, Gregory and Jacob) of World War II Pacific theater seaman/poet Joseph Anthony Welteroth didn’t just run six-figures’ worth of full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, as the hardworking staff … Continue reading
Drew Pinsky Did Stealth Doctoring For Glaxo
This past week the U.S. Justice Department reached a “$3 billion criminal and civil settlement with Glaxo over illegal drug marketing and other matters,” the Wall Street Journal reported. ‘Dr. Drew’ Was Paid by Glaxo Radio Host Extolled Virtues of Antidepressant … Continue reading
Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Ed Corsetti Edition)
From Saturday’s Boston Globe: Ed Corsetti, 87; reporter cut teeth covering Brink’s robbery in Boston Ed Corsetti was relatively unseasoned when he was assigned to cover what would become one of the biggest stories of his newspaper career: the 1950 … Continue reading
Dead Blogging reThink Ink At The BPL
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Boston Public Library to catch reThink Ink: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio, and, boy, it was swell. From the Mixit Print Studio website (the BPL site is inexplicably down): “By … Continue reading
Let The Whatever Billion Dollar Rumpus Begin!
From our Housekeeping desk Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a sharp front-page piece on the presidential campaigns’ stepped-up digital efforts this time around: Spending on online advertising could exceed $160 million during the 2012 election cycle, up from the $22 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Borrell Associates, Boston Globe, digital, presidential campaigns
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Steve Schwartz Did NOT Miss His Last WGBH Radio Show
Last Friday the hardworking staff worried that Steve Schwartz might be aced out of his final WGBH Jazz from Studio Four show. He was not. And Steve produced a sweet swan song. Sometime around 10 pm he said something like … Continue reading
Did You Ever Want To Talk To Your 12-Year-Old Self?
This guy did (via Mediaite): That is one freaky – and fabulous – video.
Is It The God Particle, Or The Goddamn Particle?
The media rumpus over the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson subatomic particle has now reached critical mass (yuk yuk), but one question that apparently hasn’t been settled is how it was dubbed “the God particle.” From yesterday’s Wall Street … Continue reading
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