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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Stories The Hardworking Staff Is Not On This Earth Long Enough To Read
Via Mediaite: Keith Olbermann Predicts Glenn Beck’s Descent Into Oblivion (In Homemade Video Clip) This from a man who just migrated from MSNBC to Current TV. (Raise your hand if you have any idea where Current TV can be found … Continue reading
Boston Globe A Tool Of Abuse-Defending Catholic League
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights ran a full-page ad headlined “Straight Talk About The Catholic Church” in Monday’s New York Times that used the Boston Globe to further its clergy-abuse enabling efforts. Lede: When the Boston Globe exposed massive … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Cathaholic Edition)
Sunday’s Boston Herald had local Catholics coming home. Sunday’s Boston Globe had them going away. First, the Herald: The story: Prodigal parishioners return to church Boston Archdiocese reaches out to halt plummeting Mass attendance The Boston Archdiocese’s largest effort in … Continue reading
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Tagged Archdiocese of Dublin, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Cathaholics, Catholics Come Home, Sean O'Malley, Vatican
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Campaign Outsider Utterly Useless Theater Review (pat. pending)
Useless because the play ended its run yesterday. Regardless, I have to say something about Bill Cain’s 9 Circles, which Publick Theatre Boston has presented for the past three weeks at the South End’s Boston Centre for the Arts. But … Continue reading
Boston Herald Whacks Boston Fixtures
Hard on the heels of Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi’s undressing of local macher and new BRA chief Peter Meade comes Boston Herald columnist Christine McConville’s dismantling of Michael Widmer (Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation) and Paul Grogan (Boston Foundation): Crusaders mum … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Massimo Vignelli At AD20/21
Last night the Missus and I dropped by AD20/21, the Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries exhibition currently at the South End’s Cyclorama, where celebrated designers Massimo and Lella Vignelli received a Lifetime Achievement Award. At which … Continue reading
NYT’s Clyde Haberman Goes -30-
New York Times metro columnist Clyde Haberman is gone like a cool breeze. His Friday swan song signaled the end of the NYC feature “after 16 years and something on the order of 1,500 columns.” Headline/lede: Before Going Dark, One … Continue reading
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Tagged -30-, Abe Rosenthal, Clyde Haberman, New York Times, NYC
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Joan Vennochi Required Reading Link (pat. pending)
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Joan Vennochi is always a good read. But often she’s a required read. As in her Thursday column on the wired-like-Con-Ed Peter Meade, who was just appointed head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, a municipal agency … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, BRA, Joan Vennochi, Mayor Me(nino), Peter Meade, Tom Menino, wired like Con Ed
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