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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (John Henry Epistolary Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features a fresh face this week. Start, as usual, with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast has a new host, as Friday’s edition of the Herald trumpeted (and the hardreading staff … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Two Different Worlds Edition Umpteen)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight proceeded apace last Friday, and for the umpteenth time the two local media hall monitors operated in parallel universes. Start, as always, with Underdog Boston Herald’s Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast featured this lineup of topics: … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (WGBH/David Koch Edition)
The latest Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight featured an interesting contrast in the two local media hall monitors’ coverage of the WGBH/David Koch rumpus. Start with Underdog Press Party, the Boston Herald’s weekly Wayne’s World webcast. Its latest edition led with a segment … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Navy Yard Shootings Edition)
The hardbaking staff has been AWOL the past few weeks – Matriculation and all that – but we’re back now, presumably to the dismay of one person and another. So, let the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight re(jack)boot, and don’t spare the … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Parallel Universes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the local media hall monitors go their separate ways in the topics they chose. Start, as usual, with the Underdog Boston Herald Press Party. Its Wayne’s World webcast began with host Joe Battenfeld saying this: … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Globe Sale Edition)
Well the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight continued apace last Friday, and the most interesting contrast between the two local media hall monitors was their coverage of the Boston Globe sale to Red Sox owner John Henry. Start, as usual, with … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff
This week’s edition of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features an interesting contrast in coverage by the local news media of Aaron Hernandez’s alleged murder spree. Start with the Underdog Press Party, which promoted itself, as usual, in Friday’s Boston … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (PBS=Panel’s Big Sneer Edition)
A nice little crisscross in this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight: The tabloid went after a public broadcasting star journalist, while the public broadcaster cuffed around the tabloid’s star columnist. Start, as usual, with the Underdog: The Boston Herald’s Press Party webcast … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Different Strokes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight finds our local hall monitors addressing very different topics. Boston Herald Press Party rundown. WGBH’s Beat the Press had a different agenda: the Whitey Bulger trial coverage, a WCVB/Nstar partnership, modernizing PBS’s NewsHour, and … Continue reading