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Tag Archives: Boston Globe
Rivers Flows Only Toward Globe
Looks like Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers is playing favorites with the local dailies. From today’s Boston Globe: Doc Rivers mum on returning to Celtics MIAMI — Doc Rivers reached out to the Globe for the first time since the Celtics’ season concluded, … Continue reading
Herald Hitches Carr To Globe
Apparently Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has run out of ways to milk his presence on Whitey Bulger’s witness list, which would presumably keep him from covering the mobster’s trial in person. So the feisty local tabloid has followed in the … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Cullen The Facts Edition)
The Boston Herald wants you to know it’s on the Whitey Bulger trial like Brown on Williamson, so they’re running this ad in today’s edition: And here’s an example of that “complete coverage.” Witness ban lifted for Globe duo Judge Denise J. … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Can I Be A Witness? Edition)
The Boston Globe is reporting on its website that its reporters can cover the trial of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Judge rejects Bulger effort to ban Globe journalists US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper ruled today that Boston Globe columnist Kevin … Continue reading
Globe Roxburys Violence
From our Compare ‘n’ Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Boston Sunday Globe, Metro Page Two: Woman dies in Roxbury shooting A woman is dead and a man was in serious condition after a shooting in Roxbury Saturday afternoon, Boston police … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Herald Has A Logo Edition)
The Whitey Bulger Trial Bakeoff between the two Boston dailies is officially on, and Sunday’s editions featured the opening salvos. Boston Sunday Globe Page One: Inside spread here . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in … Continue reading
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
Hark! The Herald! (Whitey You Can Drive My Carr Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk As the hardreading staff noted earlier, the Boston Herald is all aglow over the imminent trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, especially the personal involvement of its star columnist Howie Carr (who “vowed to watch Whitey every step of … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Battle Of The Bulger Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald is still pounding away at Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Elsewhere) over the Massachusetts welfare rumpus, but the feisty local tabloid has its eye on bigger game next week when the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger … Continue reading
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