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Dead Blogging The Celtics-Lakers Alley-Oops Game
Game 7 of the NBA Finals was quite possibly the least artistic basketball game (that didn’t include me) I’ve ever seen. Who’da thunk Kobe Bryant would play his worst game of the series, and Ron Artest would play his best? … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Celtics, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Ray Allen, Ron Artest
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Headline o’ the Day (Français Edition)
From Campaign Outsider’s Boo Hoo bureau: Washington Post headline, via Thursday’s Boston Globe. Economic woes may force French to work until 62 Lede: PARIS — The French government abandoned a sacred totem of its generous welfare system yesterday to combat … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Outsider Boo Hoo bureau, French retirement, Washington Post
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The High Art Of Photographic Advertising
Terrific advertising photography show at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, recreating the 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition at New York’s Rockefeller Plaza. Sample image: From the exhibit brochure: When the photographic exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of … Continue reading
Last Week’s News Tomorrow (WCVB Edition)
From our New York Times as America’s Assignment Desk bureau: Times headline, 6/7/10: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price WCVB report, 6/16/10: The New Addiction: Digital Technology Scientists Say Many Are Hooked, Need To Shut Down C’mon, newspeople … Continue reading
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Tagged America's Assignment Desk, digital technology, Hooked on Gadgets, New York Times, WCVB
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New York Times Cross-Eyed On Crossover Voting?
Nifty piece in Wednesday’s New York Times web-headlined: In Open Primary, Fear of Party Crashing Lede: SALT LAKE CITY — The Tea Party as party crasher? That’s the question hanging over the Democratic primary next Tuesday between Utah’s lone Democrat … Continue reading
What Can (Scott) Brown Do For You?
First it was Massachusetts Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill knocking off the aw-shucks-why-are-they-so-mean-to-me schtick that Scott Brown (R-Why Are They So Mean to Me?) used very effectively in his upset Senate run. Cahill video (complete with Browniak sweater and kitchen … Continue reading
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Tagged Browniak, Deval Patrick, Republican Governors Association, Scott Brown, Tim Cahill
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Campaign Outsider Convoluted Sentence o’ the Day™
Lede of Tuesday’s Boston Globe editorial headlined, “World Cup: Boston shows its international face.” [Can the hardworking staff take just a moment – or two minutes – to bemoan the interminable load time of the online Boston Globe? Thank you.] … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, interminable load time, Jan Freeman, VP/Grammatical Chiropractic, World Cup
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WCVB’s Mystery Pundits
Monday night, NewsCenter 5 at 11 ran a report on Ted Kennedy’s “Secret FBI Files.” Oddly enough, the piece featured another secret: It failed to identify – either verbally or visually – two local political analysts, leading one to believe … Continue reading
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Tagged Mary Anne Marsh, Ted Kennedy FBI files, Thomas Whalen, WCVB, We Can't Vaguely Bother
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Boston Globe’s Israeli Peretz-el
Editor’s note from Sunday’s Boston Globe: A May 24 story about a protest against an Israeli ambassador’s commencement speech at Brandeis University was written by a part-time correspondent who failed to disclose that he had previously editorialized in personal Internet … Continue reading
C.J. Chivers, As In Shivers
The always notable C.J. Chivers has yet another terrific piece in Sunday’s New York Times. Headline (web edition) : As Afghan Fighting Expands, U.S. Medics Plunge In Lede: MARJA, Afghanistan — The Marine had been shot in the skull. He … Continue reading
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