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Attack Of The Googletron
There’s bad news and worse news about Internet privacy these days. The bad news (via the Boston Globe): As the online search giant Google Inc. prepares to change the way it uses information about Internet users, regulators and consumer watchdogs worry … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Radio-Ad Town (Brown/Warren Edition)
From our Everything That Rises Must Converge desk: The Massachusetts U.S. Senate race is heating up, starting with this radio bakeoff between incumbent Scott Brown (R-Regular Guy) and presumptive challenger Elizabeth Warren (D-Regular Gal). It’s all about the current contraception … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Mattapan Quadruple Murder Edition)
Testimony in the truly horrific 2010 Mattapan quadruple murder trial began this week, and the appearance of a key witness, Kimani Washington, played very differently in Boston’s local dailies. From Page One of Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Key witness testifies on Mattapan … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Kimani Washington, Mattapan quadruple murder, Peter Gelzinis
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Dead Blogging Photograph 51 At The Central Square Theater
Ever encounter a science teacher who made DNA interesting, entertaining, and just a little bit sad? Us neither. Until the hardworking staff (and the Missus) took in the Nora Theatre Company’s production of Photograph 51 at the Central Square Theater. From … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tim Thomas Edition)
Tim Thomas, who sounds like the NHL’s first mobbed-up goaltender (“I going to use my right to remain silent”), gets very different treatment in the Boston dailies today. Boston Globe columnist Kevin Paul Dupont cuffs Thomas around on the sports … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Facebook, Howie Carr, Kevin Paul Dupont, Tim Thomas
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Butterfinger Bites Back
From our Revenge Is Sweet desk: Last week, as you doubtless remember, the online pawn shop Pawngo became sort of Pwn-go: [Last Wednesday, Pawngo] decided to have a little fun with Boston-area sports fans by dumping some Butterfingers addressed to Wes … Continue reading
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Tagged @bostonponder, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Butterfinger, CBS Sports, Patriots Nation, Pawngo, Pwn-go, Wes Welker
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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Daily Town (Super Bowl Hand-Off Edition)
Super Bowl Fever Grips Hub! And the hands doing the gripping belong to Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, whose outsized mitts were the subject of a story in Thursday’s New York Times (an honorary local daily by way of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Gronk, hands, New England Patriots, New York Times, Rob Gronkowski, Super Bowl
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It’s Good To Live In A Two Daily Town (Kevin White R.I.P. Edition)
From our Boston Herald as Lively Index to the Boston Globe desk: The respective front pages of the Herald and the Globe on the death of legendary Boston Mayor Kevin White: The text tells the tale, though: the Herald was … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Rose Kennedy Greenway Edition)
For the past few days, the Boston Herald has been blowtorching the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy over its excessive executive salaries and obsessive lack of transparaency. First there was the errant e-mail: Then, the coverup: All the while, the … Continue reading
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