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Call It The Times Weak In Review
The hardworking staff has held off lo these three weeks, but now it has to be said: We hate the new Sunday Review section of the New York Times. It’s a maddening hodgepodge of New Analysis, Opinion, Whatever, and Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Fogeytown, Looneyville, New York Times, Sunday review, Weak in Review
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NYT Columnist Joe Nocera’s Media Culpa
In his Saturday op-ed column, New York Times chinstroker Joe Nocera punched into the News Corp(se) beatdown: The Journal Becomes Fox-ified It’s official. The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified. It took Rupert Murdoch only three and a half years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Murray, Joe Nocera, Les Hinton, media culpa, New York Times, News Corp(se), News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
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We’re Number Last! (II)
Splendid reader Ed Mason points out some new elements in the Great GQ Dress-Down of Boston, the magazine’s 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America feature. (The hardworking staff’s earlier post here.) Today’s Boston Herald reports on the uproar created by this sentence in … Continue reading
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Tagged 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, Boston, Boston Herald, GQ, Style Down Syndrome
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We’re Number Last!
Metrosexual bible GQ just published its list of the 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, at at the very bottom – ranking behind Cleveland, Buffalo, the Jersey Shore, Wasilla for heaven’s sake, and good God Burlington, VT – is . . … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Nancy Pelosi Edition)
Sure, the Wall Street Journal disagrees with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-My Cold Dead Hands) on everything from Acela to Zygotes, but did the paper really have to use this photo in Friday’s piece about the deficit battle on Capitol … Continue reading
The Ghost Of Ted K Haunts Mitt Romney (II)
The hardworking staff previously noted Politico’s unearthing of an unaired TV spot produced by Ted Kennedy’s 1994 reelection campaign vs. Mitt Romney. We could not, however, locate video of the ad on Politico. Friday’s Boston Globe helpfully provided it. Except it … Continue reading
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Tagged 1994 unaired campaign ad, Boston Globe, Chris Matthews, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Politico, Ted Kennedy, YouTube
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WSJ Boosts Ex-Herald Scribe; NYT Eviscerates Ben Mezrich
From our Book Review Review desk: Thursday’s Wall Street Journal featured a mostly-boffo review of Stealing Rembrandts, co-authored by Anthony Amore, head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Tom Mashberg, former Boston Herald reporter who’s been on … Continue reading
The Ghost Of Ted K Haunts Mitt Romney
And by “ghost,” of course, the hardworking staff means former Ted Kennedy advisers. The haunting part is an unaired TV spot from Kennedy’s 1994 reelection campaign that depicted challenger Mitt Romney as a vulture capitalist who helped consulting firm Bain … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Ron Paul Edition)
Libertarian loon Ron Paul (R-Gold Standard) is all-in on his presidential run, having announced he’ll surrender his Texas congressional seat in a futile attempt to nab the GOP presidential nod (that last part not actually his). BUT . . . … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, campaign ad, Conviction, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ron Paul, The Note
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Boston Blanked In Best Newspaper Column Of All Time Bakeoff
From our Late to the Party desk: A couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog ran this item (via the Missus): What’s the Best Newspaper Column of All Time? The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has weighed … Continue reading
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