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Dead Blogging Taylor Branch at Harvard
So the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider trooped over to the International House of Politics in Cambridge to catch the Shorenstein Center‘s annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, along with the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism. … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Tina Brown’s MFA, Er, Talk
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday evening to catch its Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lecture featuring Daily Beast diva Tina Brown. Of course it should’ve been called the Ruth and … Continue reading
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Tagged Malcolm Rogers, MFA, Talk, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Tina Brown, Vanity Fair
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Newsy With a Chance of Meatballs
Gotta reproduce this AP story (via the Boston Herald) in its entirety: LAS VEGAS – Joey Chestnut maintained his dominance in the sport of competitive eating – and expanded his palate – by winning the first-ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Widow, Joey Chestnut, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas
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Conservative PunditWorld, Hasan Edition
Nice compare/contrast on Tuesday between the hard-right chattering classes and the moderate-conservative chinstrokerati. Representing the former: Wasp-penned Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz. Representing the latter: Every-liberal’s-favorite-conservative David Brooks, New York Times op-ed columnist. Both Brooks and Rabinowitz … Continue reading
Wrestling with Dr. Samuel Johnson
How sweet was it that Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured side-by-side reviews of a biography of the great critic-lexicographer-biographer Samuel Johnson and an autobiography of wrestler-celebrity-nobody Hulk Hogan? So it was that Johnson’s “Falstaffian vitalism” paralleled Hogan’s “herculean … Continue reading
The Globe 100
So the Boston Globe published its advertiser-friendly Globe 100 Top Places to Work glossy magazine on Sunday, and the list was very instructive. Especially since there were no media organizations on it, with the notable exception of cable and communications … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Outsider Reality Check, comcastmustdie.com, Globe 100
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PShaws
Well the Missus and I stopped by the new Shaws/Star Market in Chestnut Hill and here is our initial impression: It’s where Rube Goldberg would shop for groceries if he were still alive. For starters, the actual merchandise is on … Continue reading
It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town
Poor Boston Red Sox owner and newlywed John Henry: His hedge fund, John W. Henry & Co., is reportedly down from $2.5 billion to a mere $188 million. That’s the B-to-M Jackpot® every hedge fund fears. Consequently Henry has slashed a … Continue reading
Fort Punt Channel
So the Missus and I went down to the South End for First Friday Open Studios and ran into Lisa Greenfield, a terrific artist who works out of Fort Point Channel. And she – [Note to City Hall: Lisa is … Continue reading
Re-Re-Checkin’ NECN
For those of you keeping score at home, this is the third time the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider has written about regional cable news outfit NECN and its slow-motion dismantling of the traditional firewall between advertising and editorial content. … Continue reading
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