Fitting that a triple-overtime game should end on a double deflection, yeah?
Last night’s Game One of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks was one for the ages, regardless of which team you root for (and just for the record, the hardwatching staff is rooting for the Bruins).
This should be one helluva series, eh?
Even better with the redoubtable Doc Emrick calling it.
From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk
Coincidentally (or not) both local dailies have salary surveys of the Boston mayoral candidates today, with – wait for it – mostly different numbers.
Start with the Boston Herald:
BIG BUCKS BACKING BIDS
Herald review shows top earners in mayor’s race
Dorchester health care executive Bill Walczak is the wealthiest among the top tier of mayoral candidates, reporting a staggering $450,000 salary, while state Rep. Martin J. Walsh and City Councilor Michael P. Ross each reported earning more than $200,000, and two others hauled in a quarter-million dollars with their spouses, a Herald review of candidates’ tax returns found.
Walczak, co-founder of the Codman Square Health Center, and his Boston schoolteacher wife, Linda, reported earning a combined $526,000 in 2011, according to a tax return supplied by the Walczak campaign.
Like that “staggering”? That’s the Herald all over . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
From Tuesday’s New York Times:
An obituary on April 9 about the actress Annette Funicello misstated the title of one of her films. It is “Fireball 500,” not “Fireball.” (A reader pointed out the error on the day the obituary was published; this correction was delayed because the e-mail went astray at The Times.)
What? Information that vital – astray at the Times?
Paging the Public Editor. Paging the New York Times Public Editor.
From Tuesday’s New York Times (and Wall Street Journal):
Nut graf:
Bottom line:
Own your tomorrow?
In other words: Don’t Talk to Chuck.
Talk to yourself.
Say, that was some beatdown the San Antonio Spurs put on the Miami Heat last night, yeah?
The NBA Finals suddenly got interesting when the Spurs won Game One in Miami, and got really interesting when San Antonio totally embarrassed the Heat in Game Three.
From USA Today:
San Antonio Spurs stun Miami Heat in NBA Finals Game 3
SAN ANTONIO — The Miami Heat kept saying it didn’t matter, that LeBron James affects the game in different ways and this sudden disappearance of his scoring wasn’t the ominous sign that it may have seemed to be.
They were wrong.
With James struggling again to impose his will, the defending champion Heat lost Game 3 to the San Antonio Spurs 113-77 at AT&T Center Tuesday night and now trail 2-1 in the NBA Finals. They did it with three-pointers, setting an NBA Finals record with 16 in the game. And they did it with an extended run, finishing the game on a 69-33 tear after a tie at 44.
Ouch.
The Heat weren’t just dismantled by the Spurs – they were pwned.
Bet the ABC network execs are even happier than Tim Duncan.
Tim Tebowpalooza gets plenty of play in today’s Boston Herald, from Page One
to the double-barreled columnists here
to this Sports Section piece
to the back page of the feisty local tabloid . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
The New York Times ran this Nick Bilton Disruptions piece on Page One of Monday’s Business section:
Social Media Product Plugs Draw Scrutiny
In 1982, Bill Cosby appeared on television showing off a snazzy new computer. “Looking for a powerful home computer?” he said as he waved his hands over a Texas Instruments PC that looks archaic now. “This is the one! With 16K memory, it can take you a long way.”
The commercial made it obvious that Mr. Cosby, a prominent comedian and television star, was being paid to promote the boxy device.
Computers have changed significantly in the decades since. And, to the confusion of consumers, celebrity endorsements have, too.
Right. They’ve gotten sneaky. The Times piece points to this celebrity tweet as an example:
The thing is, Cyrus was “given some consideration for her tweet,” according to a BlackJet executive. But, asks the Times, “[d]id her 12 million Twitter followers know about the arrangement? It’s unlikely . . . ”
Well, if those 12 million Twits had read Sneak Adtack (as if), they would at least have been suspicious.
That’s because the hardtracking staff posted this several months ago, along with this . . .
Read the rest at Sneak Adtack.
Yo.
Well the old Doc has been doing some gumshoe work on this Boston Herald ad, which we mentioned the other day.
First, we dug up this obituary for Mr. Reera.
James M. Reera, age 64, passed away Jan. 2, 2013. Jim was born and raised in Braintree, lived in Marshfield for 10 years before moving to New Hampshire, first in Holderness then to Thornton, and Ashland. Jim was a Vietnam War Air Force veteran. After joining the Marshfield Fire Department, he attained the rank of lieutenant, serving for 10 years and served as chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association in the town. He discovered another calling as a tax accountant and financial advisor, setting up successful businesses in both Weymouth and Ashland, N.H., and managed them for many years.
But here’s what especially caught the Doc’s eye:
He inspired the doctors, his family and friends with the way he fought mesothelioma, a rare and virulent cancer of the lung.
At the same time, we checked into Priscilla Colburn, whose Facebook page revealed this . . .
Read the rest at Ask Dr. Ads.
Looks like Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is playing favorites with the local dailies.
From today’s Boston Globe:
Doc Rivers mum on returning to Celtics
MIAMI — Doc Rivers reached out to the Globe for the first time since the Celtics’ season concluded, but would not offer any hints as to whether he will return to the team as coach in a text-message exchange Sunday evening.
Rivers said he needed to “detox” after the season and apologized for being inaccessible to reporters . . .
Which apparently still applies to the Boston Herald. The feisty local tabloid has nothing in today’s print edition, and hasn’t even fudged a web piece the way it usually does.
Hey, Heraldniks: Like Howie always says, when the phone don’t ring, you’ll know it’s Doc.
Originally posted at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
The hardwatching staff is a little late to the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight this week, but hey – we were distracted by Rafael Nadal’s epic dismantling of Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinal (and subsequent dispatching of David Ferrer in the final), and the Chicago Blackhawks’ disposing of the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL’s Western Conference Finals.
Not to mention the Broons Broom of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals.
But we’re back now, so let’s go to the local media hall monitors.
Start, as per usual, with the Underdog: The Boston Herald’s Press Party, which led with “[t]he media circus around the Whitey Bulger trial and attempts by Bulger to keep Herald columnist Howie Carr out of the courtroom.”
The Wayne’s World webcast featured an interview (“Herald’s Howie Carr faces Whitey’s wrath” – beautiful!), in which the drive-by Carr said . . . well . . . not much.
“It’s kind of strange,” he told Press Party impresario Joe Battenfeld. “The Bulger lawyers would like to stop me from reporting on the trial, just like they would like the other [that is, Boston Globe] reporters not to be allowed to report on the trial.”
Stop the presses, eh?
Press Party panelist Michele McPhee also stated that the Globe’s Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy “can’t cover the trial,” despite the fact that the judge in the Bulger case had already lifted the ban on the Globe duo.
Regardless . . .
Crosstown, Big Dog Beat the Press (Most. Annoying. Website. Ever.), featured a soundbite from Murphy (“[Bulger] hates us – he’s called me words that I can’t say on camera in letters he wrote to a friend that we’ve obtained, and he’s called Kevin Cullen ‘a lowlife'”) and at least knew the two Globies had been cleared for coverage by US District Court judge Denise J. Casper.
Hey, Joe: Maybe you should go back to live-streaming Friday at 7.
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