Tag Archives: Boston Globe

It’s Good To Live In A Two-ePaper Town (Nemo Edition)

Well the hardreading staff just trundled around Brookline Village in search of newspapers to no avail, so we decide to hie ourselves over to the local ePapers for a quick compare-and-contrast. First, the front pages. Boston Herald: Boston Globe . … Continue reading

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Two-Daily Town Goes Digital!

No papers for you today!! (One screamer for each daily.) So the hardreading staff will be poking around the digital editions of the local dailies today. For starters: home pages. Boston Herald:   Boston Globe:   Back atchya with E-Papers soon. … Continue reading

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Herald Beats Globe In Boston Storm History Bakeoff

The Boston Herald might have missed out on the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages today, but the feisty local tabloid is far superior in the Boston Big Storms graphics showdown with the Globe. The  stately local broadsheet featured a standard-issue bar chart on Page … Continue reading

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Globe Beats Herald In Storm Front (Page) Bakeoff

The Boston Herald has long been a self-promotion machine, touting some coverage that led to government action or crowing about its inclusion in the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages on a particular day. But not today, because that latter distinction belongs to crosstown rival Boston Globe. … Continue reading

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Foxy Brown, Action Figure

Another crisscross in the local dailies as former Sen. Scott Brown (R-$$$) mulls over joining the madcap crew at Fox News. The Boston Globe front-pages it,; the Boston Herald relegates it to page 12. From the feisty local tabloid: Job may … Continue reading

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Herald Op-Ed: Mass. GOP = Gone Off Party

It’s a rare day when the local dailies crisscross, but count today as one of them: A liberal Boston Globe columnist puts on the pompoms for Bay State Republicans, while a conservative Herald thumbsucker goes all frowny-faced on them. Start … Continue reading

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Gronk: Giving New Meaning To Tight End

Patriot party boy Rob Gronkowski is all over the place – literally and figuratively – these days. Except, that is, at the Boston Globe. The stately local broadsheet has a small item buried in today’s Names column. The feisty local tabloid, though, really goes … Continue reading

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Leone’s Share Of Sunday’s U.S. Senate Coverage

The Boston Herald got the jump on the latest candidate to consider jumping into the U.S. Senate race to replace clearly departed John Kerry (D-Empty Seat). Joe Battenfeld’s column today: Leone could be spoiler in race Three’s a crowd for Lynch, Markey … Continue reading

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Ridiculous Quote o’ the Day (Kirsten Hughes Edition)

Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a profile of newly minted Massachusetts Republican Party chairwoman Kirsten Hughes, the bait-and-ditch candidate Scott Brown (R-$$$) backed before he bowed out of the running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by newly minted Secretary of … Continue reading

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Brown Out, The Great Mentioner In

Now that former Sen. Scott Brown (R-$$$) has dropped out of the running for the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate, the local dailies are putting forth very – wait for it – different lists of potential fill-ins. The Boston … Continue reading

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