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Why the Wall Street Journal Is a Great Newspaper (Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Edition)
Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured this staggering Page One piece. Tales From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Life’s Small Moments Loom Large As night fell last Friday in Kuala Lumpur, businessman Philip Wood hurried to gather his bags for a trip … Continue reading
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‘Breaking Boston’ Breaks Bad in Boston Globe, Better in NYT
Breaking news: The Boston Globe’s redoubtable Matthew Gilbert seems to be back on the TV beat after a brief fling with his Bookish column. And just in time to render judgment on the new A&E series Breaking Boston. Big moments … Continue reading
WSJ Makes ‘Faustian Pact’ with Native Advertising
Apparently there’s no resisting the allure of native advertising these days. The latest converts to ads in sheep’s clothing? USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. The latter’s surrender is the more interesting of the two, given the low opinion of native … Continue reading
Is There Something Wrong with the Official Boston Bombings Story?
Russ Baker at WhoWhatWhy is challenging the accepted narrative of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s actions in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings (tip o’ the pixel to AlterNet). Boston Bomber Carjacking Unravels An exclusive WhoWhatWhy investigation has found serious factual inconsistencies in accounts provided … Continue reading
Do We HAVE to Root for Michael Skakel?
Michael Skakel is the Halloween of crime stories: trick or treat everywhere you look. Last month he wanted to move his GPS tracker to fit his ski boot. (Honest.) Now he’s got a libel suit against legal-schmeagel television personality Nancy … Continue reading
BPL Gets Some Love from NYT
The Boston Public Library got a spotlight dance in Saturday’s New York Times. Breaking Out of the Library Mold, in Boston and Beyond BOSTON — An old joke about libraries goes like this: A boy walks into a library and asks … Continue reading
College Parents: You Have GOT to Read This Atlantic Piece
The current edition of The Atlantic features a staggering cover piece by Caitlin Flanagan on the uses and abuses of college frats. The Dark Power of Fraternities A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and … Continue reading
Kinky Friedman Rides Again!
Among the least-noticed results of Tuesday’s little-noticed Texas primary was this (via Politico): Kinky Friedman makes Texas runoff Richard “Kinky” Friedman, a humorist and country music singer, got one step closer Tuesday to adding another line to his résumé: agriculture … Continue reading
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