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WeinerWorld: New York Post Bakeoff Edition
Splendid reader Michael Pahre just sent this message to the hardworking staff in response to our recent WeinerWorld: New York Tabloids Edition (VIII) Last edition? Ha! The NY Post decided to put their covers to a public vote as to which … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Pahre, New York Post, tabloid bakeoff, WeinerWorld
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald Buyout Edition)
Last month the Boston Herald offered voluntary buyout packages (two weeks of salary for every year of service) to newsroom staff and managers. And, as the Boston Globe reports today, the results are in: The Boston Herald approved voluntary buyout packages for … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, employee buyouts, Free the Herald 12!, Larry Katz, Mat Schaffer
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Remembering The 1979 Cincinnati Who Concert
From our Small (Media) World desk: In the wake of the hardworking staff’s Classic Cincinnati Concerts walk down Memory Lane comes this Wall Street Journal feature: The Taming of the Fans Tired of taking hits to their reputations and bottom … Continue reading
Groupon More Like Groupoff In Boston
Despite Groupon’s touting of Boston as “one of its biggest and most successful markets,” the Wall Street Journal reports, the daily-deal site is getting pounded here. [A]s Groupon clones have proliferated—from nine active daily-deal sites serving Boston two years ago to … Continue reading
All The ‘News Of The World’ That’s Fit To Print
The New York Times is having a field day with the Fall of the House (Organ) of Murdoch – aka the News of the World, kissin’ cousin of Times crosstown rival Wall Street Journal. Friday’s Times had five – count ’em, … Continue reading
So Maybe It WASN’T The Ads That Nabbed Whitey Bulger (IV)
The hardworking staff has dutifully detailed the many indications that the FBI-runs-an-ad-campaign-and-nabs-Whitey-Bulger story is a total myth. Now comes more skepticism from – wait for it – the Boston Herald. From Friday’s Herald: Iceland paper: Reward tale fishy A companion … Continue reading
Remembering The Great Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival Of 1970
After the hardworking staff posted this memo from a New Yorker editor adrift in Red Sox Nation, splendid reader Steve Stein commented about his own displaced experience years ago in Cincinnati: I did 7 years in Cincinnati (well, Dayton, ’76-’82) and … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Michele Bachmann Edition)
Presidential wannabe Michele Bachmann (R-Death Ceiling) has hit the Iowa airwaves with her first TV spot, in which she lays out some biographicals and emphasizes her fight “against the wasteful bailout, against the stimulus.” Here ’tis: Get that last part? … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa, Michele Bachmann, sex appeal, Tim Pawlenty, Vin Weber, Waterloo
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A New Yorker (Editor) In Red Sox Nation
This email poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider today: Dear Laughter Lovers, Well, as promised, I’m up in Boston at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference. The conference proper hasn’t started yet, so I don’t have anything specific … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (RNC Edition)
The Republican National Committee has launched an ad campaign that’s sort of a drive-by attack on Pres. Obama. According to CNN’s Political Ticker, “The 30-second spot will air nationally on cable television, notably in battleground states, throughout the month. It uses a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Woodhouse, CNN, DNC, Political Ticker, Reince Priebus, RNC
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