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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Philip Markoff Edition)
The Boston dailies’ second-day coverage of Craigslist killer Philip Markoff’s apparent jailhouse suicide really separated the sheep from the goats, as Fr. Fahey used to say back at Fordham Prep in the ’60s. Tuesday Boston Globe headline: Markoff scrawled messages … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Cape Wind Gubernatorial Debate
As Bob Keough (late of MassINC and currently of the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs office) happily remarked afterward, (paraphrase here) who woulda thunk that the first gubernatorial debate would be about Cape Wind? But it was. And it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Wind, Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Jill Stein, MassINC, Tim Cahill
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What Can Brown Do For You? (Barn Jacket Division)
You can’t spit without hitting a Scott Brown wannabe these days. Sunday Boston Globe headline: In N.H., candidates test Brown formula The front-page piece chronicles the efforts by four New Hampshire US Senate hopefuls to Brownify themselves. Nut graf: In … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Brownify, Brownnabes, New Hampshire US Senate, Scott Brown formula
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Campaign Outsider Truth-In-Advertising Watch (pat. pending)
Because of a global-warming-induced cookie-making drought, the hardworking staff has lately had to substitute bought chocolate chip cookies for homemade. So we turned to the purveyor of all foods tasty, Trader Joe’s, and their “soft & chewy” chocolate chips. Except … Continue reading
The WSJ/NYT Slapfight (pat. pending)
Exhibit Umpteen in the Wall Street Journal’s attempted death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts of the New York Times: Seth Lipsky’s Weekend Edition op-ed piece. Lede: It will be hard to find a more overdue newspaper “correction” than that issued last Saturday by the New … Continue reading
Yankee Nation? Not Really.
Last week the hardworking staff posted All Facebook’s 10 Little Known Facts About Boston Facebook Users – and was mildly surprised that only 10% of the 2.56 million Facebook users in Boston identify themselves as Red Sox fans. (All Facebook, … Continue reading
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Tagged All Facebook, Boston, Facebookers, New York City, Red Sox Nation, Yankee Nation
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Dead Palin Bounce
Really, how stupid do you have to be to get elected in New Hampshire? Friday Boston Globe headline: Two N.H. lawmakers in hot water over Facebook posts about Palin Rep. Timothy Horgan of Durham resigned after he wrote on his … Continue reading
Your Democracy At Work
Eye-opening piece in Friday’s Wall Street Journal. Headline: How to Fix a Dysfunctional Senate: Cut 98 Senators Lede: WASHINGTON—Apparently the Senate can work quickly after all. You just have to limit it to two senators. On Thursday, the chamber approved … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Cardin, border security bill, Chuck Schumer, Wall Street Journal
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This Is Exactly Why The MBTA Accepts NO Advocacy Ads
Major dustup in New York around this transit ad “submitted by a group opposed to the construction of a mosque and Islamic center near ground zero” (via Thursday’s New York Times): The back story: The [Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s] advertising firm initially … Continue reading
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Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Ground Zero ad, MBTA, MTA, New York Times, Pamela Geller, Shriners
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Weekly Standard ‘All In’ On Massachusetts Gambling
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is the first to admit that our attention to the Bay State’s casino gambling rumpus has been more occasional than tenacious. Perhaps because of that, we found this Christopher Caldwell piece in the current issue … Continue reading
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Tagged casino gambling, Christopher Caldwell, Deval Patrick, racino, Robert DeLeo, Weekly Standard
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