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Tag Archives: Boston Globe
Separation of Real Estate and 4th Estate?
Forget about real-estate classifieds migrating to Craigslist. Seems they’re also relocating to Page One of the Boston Globe. Exhibit A: Thursday’s front-page Globe piece about the condominium fire sale at the hopelessly pretentious Natick Collection mall. Nouvelle at Natick, the … Continue reading
The Boston Globe’s Richard Egan Problem
The suicide of Richard Egan, co-founder of technology giant EMC Corp., may be understandable given his terminal illness, but the Boston Globe’s coverage of it is entirely befuddling. Initially, the Globe missed – or ignored – the actual cause of … Continue reading
Not to Get Technical About It . . .
The Sunday Boston Globe piece summarizing summer movies featured this subhed: Even in the silly season you can learn a lot from what clicked, what stiffed, and what surprised I thought the expression was “get /got stiffed.” Paging Jan Freeman, paging … Continue reading
It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town
I’ve often characterized the Boston Herald as a lively index to the Boston Globe, but on Saturday the feisty local tabloid absolutely blowtorched (I think) what it likes to call “the boring broadsheet.” Globe headline: EMC cofounder Richard Egan dies … Continue reading
Boston Globe’s Grate Ted K Editorial
Official Campaign Outsider Prediction™: The Boston Globe’s gonna get a lotta mail off Thursday’s Edward Kennedy, 1932-2009 editorial. The lede: “Ted Kennedy was not a great man.” Yes, well, tell that to . . . you’ll find out.
Globel Waning
Just gotta ask if the Boston Globe is composing its front page according to the actual news, or to Globe bylines? Case in point: Page One of yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe. No quibble here with the two David Ortiz stories … Continue reading
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