Let The Wild South Carolina Rumpus Begin! (Teddy Turner Edition)

Every now and again, a political race comes along that’s just flat-out fun.

Current leader in the clubhouse:

The South Carolina congressional GOP primary to fill the seat Tim Scott vacated when he was appointed U.S. Senator by Gov. Nikki Haley.

Key players: Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford (R-Appalachian Trail) and upstart newcomer Teddy Turner (R-I’m Not My Bleeping Liberal Dad Ted Turner).

The hardworking staff has already noted Sanford’s, er, virgin TV spot.

Now comes Turner’s response (via MSNBC’s First Read):

 

As the First Readniks said:

Wow.

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Joe K 3.0: My Left Hand

From yesterday’s Boston Globe’s Names column:

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Congressman Joe Kennedy gave a pat on the back to a bunch of nonprofits at a gathering hosted by the Highland Street Foundation. Attendees included Regina Snowden of Partners for Youth With Disabilities,Sana Fadel of Rosie’s Place, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston CEO Josh KraftJoe Abely of the Carroll Center for the Blind, Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts CEO Ruth Bramson, and Highland Street Foundation trustee Holly McGrath.

Yeah – a left-handed pat on the back.

Hey, Namesniks: The guy has his right arm in a sling. You don’t mention that?

(Then again, the hardsearching staff hasn’t found any mention of it elsewhere either. So . . .  whatever.)

Originally posted at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

UPDATE: Eric Randall at Boston Magazine did some investigating of his own and came up with this. Mystery solved.

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What’s This? The Herald Track Gal (Without Laura!)

From our Late to the Going-Away-Party desk

The hardreading staff yields to no man in its admiration for the Boston Herald’s Track Gals (without Megan!). But this is too much.

First it was zany sidekick Megan Johnson.

Gone!

Now it’s Track Gal Laura Raposa.

Gone!

From yesterday’s Boston Herald Inside Track:

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Veteran Herald writer Laura Raposa, longtime co-columnist with Gayle Fee of the paper’s popular Inside Track, has announced that after 30 years with the paper and 21 years co-writing the daily column, she will be leaving the paper March 8 to focus on cooking, historic preservation and independent writing projects. Raposa, an accomplished cook and baker, said that “leaving the Herald, where I have worked my entire adult life, is bittersweet.”

“I will miss the Herald as well as my colleagues, many of whom are like family, especially my partner Gayle Fee,” Raposa said. “At the same time, I am excited by the prospect of pursuing my passions and interests outside of daily journalism while continuing to write.”

Hey, Gayle Fee (a.k.a. the Track Gal): The hardreading staff is always available for consultation.

Originally posted at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Sex Change At Feisty Local Tabloid!

The hardreading staff doesn’t know what they’ve done with the real Boston Herald, but here’s how it looks today:

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Seriously. And here’s the feature story . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Boston Globe Lil Poops Out

From our Late to the Poopy desk

Yesterday the hardreading staff noted the Lil Poopypalooza at the Boston Herald:

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What we failed to note was the corresponding Boston Globe coverage of the Poopyfuffle . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Big Data-mining Is No Laugh RIOT (Raytheon Division)

The hardtracking staff heard a segment last night on the CBC radio show Q (podcast here) about a new surveillance system developed by Raytheon and reported by James Ball of The Guardian:

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‘Riot’ software developed to monitor people on social networks is as sinister as it sounds. We need legal safeguards, and fast

Separating paranoia from healthy caution in the 21st century is only getting harder, as it gets easier and easier for governments and corporations to track our online behaviour. The latest development, revealed by the Guardian, is that defence giant Raytheon has created software capable of tracking people based on information posted to social networks . . .

Read the rest at Sneak Adtack.

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Hark! The Herald! (Lil Poopy Edition)

Today’s Boston Herald gets all Whitmanesque celebrating itself and singing itself while delivering the straight poop on nine-year-old rapper Smallie Bigs – sorry, Lil Poopy.

Start at the top of Page One:

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Obligatory two-page spread . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Herald Held Hostage By Reality, Day One

Stop the presses! The Schadenfreude Gazette has actually stipulated to the facts about the imminent sale of crosstown rival Boston Globe.

From today’s edition of the feisty local tabloid:

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Media titan quashes talk of bid

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch won’t be bidding on the Boston Globe, according to … Rupert Murdoch . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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NBC = Not Being Competitive

The Peacock Network has plummeted to new depths in the latest ratings period.

From the New York Times:

NBC-articleLargeIn Turnabout, NBC Prime Time Lands in the Cellar

With every passing week, the sudden blossoming of prime-time success that NBC experienced last fall is looking more like a mirage.

The ratings of last September through December, when NBC shocked the television industry by winning 13 of 15 weeks, have dissipated to numbers so small they have not been seen before by any broadcast network — certainly not during a rating period known as a sweeps month, when networks present their strongest programming.

When the official numbers are completed Thursday, NBC will finish this sweeps month not only far behind its regular network competitors, but also well behind the Spanish-language Univision. No broadcast network has ever before finished a television season sweeps month in fifth place.

Something Univision was quick to note via a full-page ad in – wait for it – the New York Times:

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NBC = Now Beaten Corporation.

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Gabriel Gomez Pays To Tweet

Gabriel Gomez, who’s trying to buy enough signatures to get himself on the ballot for the U.S. Senate special election we have every couple of years, won’t give media interviews, but he will pony up for tweets.

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Mr. Gomez – you want to serve the people of Massachusetts? Let them test-drive you in a couple of media appearances.

Thank you.

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