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Boston Globe Botched Byline
I yield to no man in my admiration for intrepid New York Times war correspondent C.J. Chivers. But his byline should not have stood alone atop Monday’s Boston Globe front-page piece headlined, “Leaked archive casts stark light on Afghan war.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Associated Press, Boston Globe, C.J. Chivers, Kevin Frayer, New York Times, wikidump, WikiLeaks
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Edition)
Boston Globe, 7/23/10: Democrats drop signature climate bill Kerry vows to keep fighting for passage Boston Herald, 7/23/10: The Herald story claimed, “Senator docks new yacht in R.I. – ducks $500G in Mass. taxes.” There are many sides to Big … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Jawn, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Capt. Kerry's Cash Cruise, climate bill, John Kerry
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Yankees Voice Bob Sheppard Deserved Better Boston Obit Pix
This is just wrong. Bob Sheppard – the voice of the Yankees at the Big Ballpark from 1951 to 2006 – died Sunday at the age of 99. Here’s the picture from the Boston Globe obituary: Worse, the one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Sheppard, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Derek Jeter, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
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Verizon’s 3-D(ud) Newspaper Ad
Verizon Wireless has launched a new big-bucks ad campaign with the theme Rule the Air. Here’s their first TV spot: There’s also a newspaper component to the campaign, as evidenced in Friday’s Boston Globe, which featured a front page Rule … Continue reading
Dueling Robots In Boston Globe, New York Times
What are the odds that the Boston Globe and the New York Times would feature Page One robots on the same day? Well, Monday was the day. Times robot: Globe robot: Their functions, as you have no doubt already gathered, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bina48, Boston Globe, MIT Media Lab, New York Times, Nexi, robots, Roomba, Tamagotchi pets
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Boston Globe Courtney Love-Fest
Professional widow Courtney Love performed this week at the House of Blues, garnering a positive review from the Boston Globe’s Sarah Rodman. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but somehow, a decade beyond a heyday when “Doll Parts’’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Courtney Love, head transplant, Joan Rivers, Sarah Rodman
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Sal DiMasi Is Still A Small-Time Fraud
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prosecutions of honest services fraud, as the Boston Globe reports, “should be used only to prosecute cases involving bribery and kickback schemes.” That’s mother’s milk to belegaled former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider Convoluted Sentence o’ the Day™
Lede of Tuesday’s Boston Globe editorial headlined, “World Cup: Boston shows its international face.” [Can the hardworking staff take just a moment – or two minutes – to bemoan the interminable load time of the online Boston Globe? Thank you.] … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, interminable load time, Jan Freeman, VP/Grammatical Chiropractic, World Cup
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Boston Globe’s Israeli Peretz-el
Editor’s note from Sunday’s Boston Globe: A May 24 story about a protest against an Israeli ambassador’s commencement speech at Brandeis University was written by a part-time correspondent who failed to disclose that he had previously editorialized in personal Internet … Continue reading
Massachusetts Goobernatorial Race
Nice piece in Wednesday’s Boston Globe by Stephanie Ebbert calling the roll of the Bay State’s perennial political hopefuls (the “always-rans,” as Ebbert labels them) “whose names — Jill, Grace, Christy, Carla, Jack E. — are familiar to many on … Continue reading
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