Tag Archives: Bob Gardner

Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Boston Herald Liable for Libel Edition)

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features a very special topic: The legal beatdown of the Boston Herald for libeling a local woman in its 2009 report that she engaged in “sexual acts” with a convicted murderer at Bridgewater’s Old … Continue reading →

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The Seamus Sweepstakes™ Lives! (II)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Today’s piece from New York Times columnist Gail Collins had the hardsweating staff wondering until the very end whether the Seamus Sweepstakes™ would finally be settled, but at the last possible moment, Collins came through. From the beginning: The Gift … Continue reading →

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Greg Sullivan Tom Finneran, And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Condo Conversion

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

In response to the hardworking staff’s chronicling of Faye Dunaway’s Manhattan housing-court rumpus (My Rental! My Sublet! My Rental! My Sublet!), splendid reader Bob Gardner wrote this: My favorite rent control story never made it into print. It took place … Continue reading →

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