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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Carr Stalled Out Edition)
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 … Continue reading
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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Welfare Roils Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the Boston Herald’s Press Party addressing “[t]he media’s handling of a scathing audit claiming the state has handed out more than $2 million in welfare benefits to dead people . . . ratings for … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Herald Comes In First! Edition)
Actually, it’s not like the Boston Herald’s Press Party beat WGBH’s Beat the Press in last night’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight. It just beat BTP to the punch. (Full disclosure: The hardwatching staff was a longtime blah blah blah.) When … Continue reading
Boston Herald A Suffolk University Satellite Campus
There’s some serious co-branding going on at the Boston Herald these days, where the Suffolk University logo is on the feisty local tabloid like Howie Carr on a Bay State solon. For starters, there’s the Suffolk connection to the Herald’s … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Joe Battlefield Edition)
It was clear from the start that the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the underdog Boston Herald Press Party webcast and the big dog WGBH Beat the Press broadcast would eventually turn into a slapfight providing countless hours of entertainment for … Continue reading
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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Beat The Herald Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight resumed last night, with the Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party webcast featuring this: The Boston Herald’s “Press Party” gives credit to local media for outperforming the national print and TV networks in our half-hour show devoted to … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Totally Beat Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight sort of continued last night as the Boston Herald and WGBH’s Greater Boston broad(web)cast their News Media Hall Monitor shows in the wake of this week’s Marathon bombing. Let’s start, as always, with the Underdog. The … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Spotlight The Globe Edition)
It’s time once again to review the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, especially the rumpus over the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report, Driven to the Edge. Start as usual with the underdog Boston Herald, which has been hounding its crosstown rival all … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (‘Party’ Pooper Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Yesterday our feisty local tabloid celebrated itself and sang its Press Party with a full-page ad. Got that – always smart, no-holds-barred discussions from fresh faces with their news noses on the ground and their fingertips on the pulse of the media machine? Two observations: 1) That has … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Miss Da Mayah Edition)
It’s Week Two of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, and the hardworking staff is pleased once again to bring you the details. Start with the Underdog, the Boston Herald’s online Press Party. As always, our feisty local tabloid treats its … Continue reading
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