Tag Archives: Boston Globe

Campaign Outsider Update Event™

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading →

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Peretz Blasts Boston Globe

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party bureau: In his blog on tnr.com yesterday, Marty Peretz thoroughly sandblasted the Boston Globe for its anti-Israel bias in general and its coverage of of Sunday’s Brandeis University commencement in particular. The lede: The Globe often … Continue reading →

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When The (Paul) Levy Breaks

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

So Paul Levy, embattled chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has finally deigned to talk to the press about stashing his – we’re just guessing here, because Levy “declined to detail the exact nature of the relationship with … Continue reading →

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Black Lungs And Inconvenience Stores In The Bay State

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Thursday’s Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts wants to “force stores to post graphic signs vs. smoking.” Such as the one to the left, which appears in New York City stores. The signs are modeled on a nothing-left-to-the-imagination campaign in New … Continue reading →

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Boston Globe Un-Unlikes Martha

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Post in haste, repent at leisure. The hardworking staff’s rare midday post on Thursday, which detailed New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins’ drive-by snarking of Martha Coakley, went up before we caught that day’s Boston Globe Coakley-palooza. Page One … Continue reading →

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Carlo Rotella Is A Comer

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Nice piece about pride-of-Chelsea heavyweight champ John Ruiz by guest columnist Carlo Rotella in Monday’s Boston Globe. Representative sample: Even hardcore Boston sports fans didn’t take much notice of him. Boxing isn’t as popular now as it was in the … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (U.S. Census Edition)

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Saturday Boston Globe: Nothing about the 2010 U.S. Census. Saturday Boston Herald: Something about the 2010 U.S. Census. Lede: The feds spent millions to convince citizens that participating in the Census was as American as apple pie – but many of … Continue reading →

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The Late Boston Globe (Howie Carr Edition)

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

At about 2:25 Saturday morning, the lateworking staff at Campaign Outsider noticed this tweet from the indefatigable Dan Kennedy: Hearing there’s a big Boston media story brewing. Don’t know enough to say more. Saturday Globe? That’s the correct punctuation, Dan, … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Sonny Rollins Edition)

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From our Not-To-Get-Technical-About-It desk: Friday’s (dead-tree) Boston Herald: Rock stars are often blockheads. They want to get paid, party hearty and occasionally make some art. Sonny Rollins is no rock star. A link to the last great jazz age, tenor … Continue reading →

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Bay State Solons Opposed To Gambling . . . Their Careers

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Casino gambling in Massachusetts is already claiming victims. From Wednesday’s Boston Globe piece headlined, “Changes killed with House lining up for casino bill”: After 17 years of serving in the back benches of the House, Representative Elllen Story, an Amherst … Continue reading →

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