This is what the Boston Herald lives for.
Our feisty local tabloid devotes nearly four full pages to the casino-industrial complex today . . .
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Dead Blogging The Greenway Carousel Preview
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Rose Kennedy Greenway yesterday to get a sneak peek at the new Greenway Carousel, and say, it was swell.
For starters, it’s just flat out beautiful.
Representative sample (via June Wulff’s Boston Globe item in today’s G section):
Take it for a spin when it opens on Saturday.
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That’s Just So Stupid! (Novak Djerkovic U.S. Open Edition)
In the run-up to the 2013 U.S. Open, the New Yorker ran a major takeout by Lauren Collins on world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic.
Nut graf:
Djokovic and his family were slow to internalize the codes of tennis, a sport that derives its prestige from its sense of itself as
a gentleman’s game. Among the offenses regularly cited by Djokovic’s detractors is the fact that his parents, cheering him on at a match, wore T-shirts imprinted with a picture of his face. Modesty is a fetish in tennis. “I would like to see him show a bit more humility, like Nadal and Federer,” Roy Emerson, the Australian former champion, said, of Djokovic, in 2011. “There is too much of this chest thumping and roaring when he wins.”
Yeah – tell us about it.
But then the New Yorker piece said this:
Djokovic is on the verge of capturing the respect that has eluded him for much of his career. He seems to become more statesmanlike with every match—a grass-stained Mark Zuckerberg, outgrowing the gawkiness that characterized his early years. Even Roy Emerson offered a glowing assessment of his comportment. “He has definitely changed,” Emerson told me, in August. “I watched him play Murray at Wimbledon, and he seems to have grown up, and actually conducted himself terrifically in the final. He seems to be moving in the right direction.”
Uh-huh. Except for this (via the New York Times):
That’s his reaction to beating a tomato can in the first round?
We’re thinking maybe he’s still Novak Djerkovic.
Suffolk Downs Casino: Dailies Play The Numbers Game
The Boston Herald and the Boston Globe do casino-half-full/casino-half-empty in today’s editions.
The Globe:
The story itself gives a more detailed set of numbers . . .
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Bing Bling For Schools
From our Late to the Party Favors desk
This ad appeared in Sunday’s New York Times:
Which got the hardwondering staff to wondering: What’s that all about?
Just this (via PRNewswire):
REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bing launched a free, national pilot program — Bing for Schools — today that gives districts across America the choice to have ad-free search in their schools. Bing for Schools offers K–12 public
and private schools in the U.S. the choice to avoid the commercialization of student Web searches performed on the school network by removing all advertisements from search results. Bing is the first and only major search engine to give schools such a choice.
Well bully for Bing.
The Microsoft search engine, which got a megabucks launch but totally failed in its effort to be verbed, has now bumped up against the Google ceiling, as this comScore ranking illustrates:
So Bing needs to bring new business its way.
And grammar schools and high schools are ripe for the plucking, as TechCrunch reports:
Bing For Schools Launches, Ditching Ads And Rewarding Searches With Surface RT Tablets For Schools
Microsoft previewed its Bing for Schools initiative back in June, an opt-in program for educational institutions that allows schools to sign up to offer a version of Bing to their students that drops advertisements and increases privacy protections. The Bing for Schools program launches for K through 12 schools today, and as an added bonus, using it will earn users points that their school can redeem for free Surface RT tablets.
Of course, no one really wants Surface RT tablets.
But why get technical about it.
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Brownout At The Boston Globe (Marco Rubio Edition)
It’s clear by now that former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere) will do pretty much anything to grab a piece of the media spotlight.
Today it’s this story in the Boston Herald:
Scott Brown Twitter pic causes a stir
It was a political twitter tornado.
When Scott Brown posted a picture of himself with a beaming U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) yesterday, the social media site lit up — especially after he followed it up with a one-word addendum: “Maybe.”
Maybe a GOP ticket in 2016?
Yes, and maybe the hardreading staff will win the Nobel Peace Prize for Two-Daily Town . . .
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Boston Globe A Day Late, Charlie Card Short On MBTA Ring Story?
From our stately local broadsheet’s The Hive on Monday:
This ring guarantees easy access to the T
Sick of fishing through your purse or flashing your wallet every time you ride the MBTA? A Kickstarter project, Sesame Ring, is offering stylish RFID rings that you can simply tap against CharlieCard readers as you sail through the crowds.
“Having missed the train many times while fishing for our CharlieCards, we looked for a solution in wearable technology. After months of hard work, we created the 3D-printed Sesame Ring, supported by the MBTA,” the project page states. “Now, you can walk right up to the gantry, use scientifically approved magic, and scoot on through!”
At first glance, the Globe is sucking hind teat here.
From the Googletron . . .
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Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (To Half and Half Not Edition)
This week’s installment of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight has more than its share of headcratchers.
Start, as always with the Underdog: the Boston Herald’s Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast weighed in on the Jared Remy Saga a week late (they missed it when it actually happened), along with the risks for journalists covering international conflicts and press reaction to Scott Brown’s claim that he might run for president.
Regarding that last one, the Partyniks were especially bothered by the “pundints” who dismissed Brown out of hand.
Exhibit A from guest host Jacklyn Cashman: this tweet by Business Insider’s Josh Barro.
Cashman said, “Critics seem to forget that Pres. Obama also started testing the waters as a half-term Senator. I don’t seem to remember the same sort of skepticism toward him.”
As one splendid reader has noted, the Barro tweet is “clearly a sarcastic putdown” of Brown critics who claim he’s unqualified to be president. But the Partyniks were 100% irony-deficient on this topic. Another said, “Everybody is so focused on Brown in the first place to want to prop him up as a presidential candidates and then immediately knock him down.”
Wait – wasn’t it the Herald that plastered Brown all over the front page last week? What’s this everybody?
Crosstown at Big Dog WGBH, Beat the Press . . . well, not sure what they did since there’s no show posted from last Friday.
This just in: Redoubtable BTPer Dan Kennedy tells us the Beatniks have taken a couple of weeks off. So the hardbaking staff will follow suit. See you after Labor Day.
Why The Boston Herald Should Respect The Boston Globe (Annie Dookhan Edition)
From the Boston Sunday Globe’s front page:
The Globe proceeded to devote another page-and-a-half to tracking defendants freed by Dookhan’s crime lab debacle . . .
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Vin Scully Celebrations: Globe 1, Herald 0
Vin Scully, the legendary 85-year-old broadcaster who has called Los Angeles Dodgers games for lo, these last 64 years, has just re-upped for 2014, and the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy paid tribute to him in Sunday’s edition.
Vin Scully simply the best broadcaster of all time
Ted Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Russell, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jim Brown, Winston Churchill, Bobby Orr, Yo-Yo Ma, Muhammad Ali . . .
And Vin Scully.
The best who ever lived . . .
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