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.
Mr. Gomez – you want to serve the people of Massachusetts? Let them test-drive you in a couple of media appearances.
Thank you.
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.
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.
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):
Let’s skip over Howie Carr’s bulk-mail offering . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
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.
The hardcalculating staff’s tally: Somewhere north of $1.5 million.
Nice neighborhood, as the late lamented Norma Nathan would say.
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):
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.
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:
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.
Another day, another dolor for the Boston Globe.
As gleefully recorded by The Schadenfreude Gazette:
Times sidesteps Globe layoff question
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.
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:
‘Moaning, groaning’ in Zumba testimony
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.
The Schadenfreude Gazette is at it again today:
Obligatory two-page spread:
Helpful chart . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
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