On Second Thought, Let’s Not Skip Over Howie Carr’s Latest Bulk-Mail Offering

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Earlier today, the hardreading staff wrote this in assessing the latest Boston Herald assault on its crosstown rival Boston Globe’s imminent sale:

Let’s skip over Howie Carr’s bulk-mail offering (“I have next to nothing in common with the pampered pukes of Morrissey Boulevard — I went to a state college, I’m not in the Social Register, I don’t have a trust fund, I wasn’t born and raised on Park Avenue, I never summered in the Hamptons” blah blah blah) and go right to the alleged news report.

But, in retrospect, it’s only right to address Carr’s knee-jerk (accent on jerk) attack on the stately local broadsheet.

First off, the “state college” Carr attended was the University of North Carolina, “not exactly Dartmouth State” as one splendid commenter noted . . .

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

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The Wall Street Journal Wants Boston Herald Readers

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Full disclosure: The hardworking staff is one of the 17 home subscribers to the Boston Herald. As such, we received a letter yesterday from the Wall Street Journal (which the Missus subscribes to, she being much smarter than we are) offering us a discounted subscription.

Header:

Reserved for the readers of the Boston Herald

3 MONTHS for the PRICE OF 1

EXCLUSIVE OFFER

By Invitation Only

You are among a select few residents [The Few. The Proud. The 17] entitled to receive your first three months of the Wall Street Journal — in both print and digital form — for only $29.99. That’s 3 full months for the price of 1.

Seriously? The Journal chasing the readers of our feisty local tabloid? That’s the unlikeliest union this side of AOL Time Warner.

And likely to meet the same end.

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Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day 4

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Schadenfreude Gazette is so desperate for new ways every day to bash the Globe over its impending sale, the feisty local tabloid is willfully ignoring reality just to get in some cheap shots. Today’s case in point (no idea why the “1″ is upper right, but couldn’t get rid of it):

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Let’s skip over Howie Carr’s bulk-mail offering . . .

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

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The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Haul

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff has reported (EXCLUSIVE!) on several occasions, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has sold off almost 150 African-American artworks for reasons that are, well, sort of vague.

From a previous post:

[A]n MFA spokeswoman graciously informed us that the deaccessioning is standard practice in the museum world and will allow the MFA to better serve the local art-viewing public.

Okay.

Still, we thought you might want to know the final tally of the fire sale at Swann Galleries.

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The hardcalculating staff’s tally: Somewhere north of $1.5 million.

Nice neighborhood, as the late lamented Norma Nathan would say.

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The New New Republic Is A Potemkin Magazine

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The much-ballyhooed New Republic relaunch turns out to be a bit of a dud, at least in terms of the print edition. It started out fat, slick, and full of ads, but now it’s just fat and slick.

Current issue (or what we could access – The New Republic website is a total pain the ass):

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The magazine has consistently featured 64-68 pages since the relaunch. But this week, there are all of 5 1/2 pages of advertising.

Memo to boy-millionaire publisher Chris Hughes: Do us all a favor and just set fire to your money.

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Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day Three (Volume Two)

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The print edition of The Schadenfreude Gazette has arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Two-Daily Town, so here’s a better look at today’s offerings:

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The hardreading staff previously noted the feature story. A taste of the others . . .

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

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Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day Three

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Another day, another dolor for the Boston Globe.

As gleefully recorded by The Schadenfreude Gazette:

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A top New York Times Co. official reportedly didn’t rule out layoffs at the Boston Globe but assured a swift sale during tense meetings with employees yesterday, while the first potential bidder for the 141-year-old broadsheet emerged — Bay State auto magnate Ernie Boch Jr.

“I grew up not only reading the Boston Globe but doing business with the Boston Globe,” Boch told the Herald yesterday after throwing his hat in the ring. “I feel it has lost its way over the last few years. I feel I have the right recipe to put it back on track.”

Last night, Boch tweeted: “Print is not dead!”

C’mon down, Ernie Jr.! . . . 

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

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Boston Herald: Your Zumba Hooker Headquarters (II)

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

While the Boston Globe resolutely neglects the Zumba Hooker trial in Kennebunk, Maine (this ran on the Web but not in print), our feisty local tabloid is on it like Brown on Williamson. Today’s installment:

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The bizarre twists and turns in the trial of the alleged owners of a Zumba dance studio-based brothel in posh Kennebunk, Maine, continued yesterday as a next-door pizza parlor manager told of being flashed by the woman accused of providing sex for money, and her landlord told of “moaning and groaning” with men coming and going every 30 to 60 minutes as early as 
5 a.m.

The titillating testimony came in the trial of Mark Strong Sr., accused of 
13 counts of promoting prostitution. Strong is the business partner of Alexis Wright, 30, who is accused of engaging in prostitution at the dance studio, at an office across the street and at her own home. Authorities have said she videotaped clients without their knowledge. She will be tried later.

“She fussed around with her wallet and off goes the towel. I felt awkward,” said Dan Racaniello, the pizza shop manager.

That’s it? Awkward? Obviously not a prospective client.

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

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Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day Two

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Schadenfreude Gazette is at it again today:

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Obligatory two-page spread:

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Helpful chart . . .

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

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Gabriel Gomez Is The Belt-And-Suspenders Senate Candidate

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful (and former Navy SEAL/current private equity investor) Gabriel Gomez has failed to submit to a single news media interview, but he has released his second Web video, this one chronicling his signature-gathering efforts to get on the ballot for the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry (D-I Am the Secretary of State).

 

From the narration:

[My kids are] gonna have fun going out there talking about how their Dad’s running for Senate and they’re gonna try to get signatures for our campaign . . .

I’m running for Senate, I’m Gabriel Gomez – we’re getting signatures.

From Thursday’s Boston Globe:

Campaign adviser Leonardo Alcivar would not say how often Gomez is meeting with voters or where or even whether his visits are scheduled in advance. Gomez is spending 24 hours a day assembling a campaign and preparing for a run, Alcivar said.

“That means building a team, focusing like a laser, gathering signatures, meeting with voters, talking with activists and elected officials, and putting together a fund-raising plan that will ensure we have the necessary resources to compete,” said Alcivar.

Interesting that neither Alcivar nor the Globe piece mentioned that Gomez is paying a signature-gathering company “more than $100,000” to collect the 10,000 signatures he needs to get on the ballot (which – wait for it – the Globe reported last week).

That’s ten bucks per John Hancock, for those of you keeping score at home.

Which is very likely more than the Gomez kids are earning.

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