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Why We Love The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Bruins Cr’ork Penguins In Double Overtime Edition)

Full disclosure: The Pittsburgh Penguins absolutely deserved to win last night’s Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 in the first overtime.   But they didn’t. So the Boston Bruins won it in the second overtime:   You knew Jaromir Jagr would … Continue reading →

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Globe Roxburys Violence

From our Compare ‘n’ Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Boston Sunday Globe, Metro Page Two: Woman dies in Roxbury shooting A woman is dead and a man was in serious condition after a shooting in Roxbury Saturday afternoon, Boston police … Continue reading →

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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Welfare Roils Edition)

This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the Boston Herald’s Press Party addressing “[t]he media’s handling of a scathing audit claiming the state has handed out more than $2 million in welfare benefits to dead people . . . ratings for … Continue reading →

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Post-Racial America? Ha!

From Saturday’s New York Times: Vitriol Online for Cheerios Ad With Interracial Family The Cheerios spot shows a young girl asking her mother if the cereal is “good for your heart.” Her mother assures her that is so. The girl … Continue reading →

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Why We Love The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Bruins Kick Ork! Edition)

Last night the Boston Bruins played about as good a hockey game you’re likely to see: tough, disciplined, strong on the puck, opportunistic. And in the process completely dismantled the vaunted Pittsburgh Penguins. Excellent highlight video compliments of Tyge Brahe: … Continue reading →

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Hark! The Herald! (Whitey You Can Drive My Carr Edition)

From our Walt Whitman desk As the hardreading staff noted earlier, the Boston Herald is all aglow over the imminent trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, especially the personal involvement of its star columnist Howie Carr (who “vowed to watch Whitey every step of … Continue reading →

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Military Vets: Macy’s Has Got Your $ix

Full-page ad in Friday’s New York Times: You see that? Support American veterans! Give $3 at any Macy’s and SAVE 25% ALL DAY It’s all part of Macy’s Got Your Six (as in, Got Your Back) promotion. Sorry, but the … Continue reading →

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Instead Of Being Stupid Themselves, Legal Sea Foods Ads Say YOU’RE Stupid

Storied Boston restaurant chain Legal Sea Foods is the Benneton of eateries, constantly issuing offensive and – not good for a restaurant – tasteless ad campaigns. Previous taxitop ad: Previous TV campaign:   Now comes a new campaign with the … Continue reading →

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Hark! The Herald! (Battle Of The Bulger Edition)

From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald is still pounding away at Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Elsewhere) over the Massachusetts welfare rumpus, but the feisty local tabloid has its eye on bigger game next week when the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger … Continue reading →

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