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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Fred Willard PBS Backlash Edition)
The Boston Globe gets some payback.
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Fred Willard, Market Warriors, New York Times, PBS
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Grand Old Potemkin Pillage
You can set your election-year calendar by this House Republican budget kabuki (via the Boston Globe): Republican bill aims ax at NPR, public TV WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday to get rid of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, budget kabuki, Grand Old Pantomime, House Republicans, NPR, PBS
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Correction Correction o’ the Day (Boston Globe Edition)
From yesterday’s Boston Globe: ■ Correction: A correction in Sunday’s paper incorrectly stated the mileage scale on a graphic of bike routes in and around Boston that was published in the July 8 Globe Magazine. The bar represented a distance of 4 … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Ray Allen Farewell Ad-ition)
The ever classy Ray Allen said goodbye to Celtics fans today in a full-page Boston Globe ad. Allen did not, however, run an ad in the Boston Herald. Questions? Comments? Bitter recriminations?
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Tagged Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, farewell ad, Ray Allen
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Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Letters From The Editor Edition)
In response to the hardworking staff’s recent posts about the Boston Globe’s slowbituaries (see here and here), Globe obituary editor Bryan Marquard has graciously sent us two thorough and thoughtful emails. Email #1: Mr. Carroll, In answer to your questions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Ed Corsetti, Slowbituaries, Stephen Bankuti
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Spacebook: 13 Million US Facebookers Don’t Use Privacy Controls
A Consumer Reports investigation reveals that a fair chunk of Facebookniks are pretty casual about protecting their privacy. Via the Boston Globe: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users do not use, or are not aware of, the site’s privacy controls, according to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Consumer Reports, Facebook, Mark (DataSuckah) Zuckerberg, Sneak ADtack
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Boston Globe Slowbituaries ( Stephen Bankuti Edition)
Hard on the heels of our last installment of this regular feature, the Sunday Boston Globe featured this obit: Stephen Bankuti, 78; Sudbury soccer coach fought in Hungarian resistance As a boy in Hungary, Stephen Bankuti defused land mines in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Ed Corsetti, Slowbituaries, Stephen Bankuti, Sudbury soccer coach
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Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Ed Corsetti Edition)
From Saturday’s Boston Globe: Ed Corsetti, 87; reporter cut teeth covering Brink’s robbery in Boston Ed Corsetti was relatively unseasoned when he was assigned to cover what would become one of the biggest stories of his newspaper career: the 1950 … Continue reading
Let The Whatever Billion Dollar Rumpus Begin!
From our Housekeeping desk Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a sharp front-page piece on the presidential campaigns’ stepped-up digital efforts this time around: Spending on online advertising could exceed $160 million during the 2012 election cycle, up from the $22 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Borrell Associates, Boston Globe, digital, presidential campaigns
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Boston Globe: The Theater’s Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Misfortune
Two weeks ago Boston Globe theater critic Don Aucoin submited this piece: Theater audiences are growing older Next time you’re in a theater in Boston – or down on the Cape, or out in the Berkshires, or on Broadway, or … Continue reading
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