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Tag Archives: Boston Herald
Battle Of The Bulger (Cullen The Facts Edition)
The Boston Herald wants you to know it’s on the Whitey Bulger trial like Brown on Williamson, so they’re running this ad in today’s edition: And here’s an example of that “complete coverage.” Witness ban lifted for Globe duo Judge Denise J. … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Can I Be A Witness? Edition)
The Boston Globe is reporting on its website that its reporters can cover the trial of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Judge rejects Bulger effort to ban Globe journalists US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper ruled today that Boston Globe columnist Kevin … Continue reading
Globe Roxburys Violence
From our Compare ‘n’ Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Boston Sunday Globe, Metro Page Two: Woman dies in Roxbury shooting A woman is dead and a man was in serious condition after a shooting in Roxbury Saturday afternoon, Boston police … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Herald Has A Logo Edition)
The Whitey Bulger Trial Bakeoff between the two Boston dailies is officially on, and Sunday’s editions featured the opening salvos. Boston Sunday Globe Page One: Inside spread here . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Welfare Roils Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the Boston Herald’s Press Party addressing “[t]he media’s handling of a scathing audit claiming the state has handed out more than $2 million in welfare benefits to dead people . . . ratings for … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Whitey You Can Drive My Carr Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk As the hardreading staff noted earlier, the Boston Herald is all aglow over the imminent trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, especially the personal involvement of its star columnist Howie Carr (who “vowed to watch Whitey every step of … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Battle Of The Bulger Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald is still pounding away at Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Elsewhere) over the Massachusetts welfare rumpus, but the feisty local tabloid has its eye on bigger game next week when the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger … Continue reading
Massachusetts Welfare? Well, Foul!
The new audit of the Massachusetts welfare system gets very – say it with me – different treatment in the local dailies today. Boston Globe Page One: Lede . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Herald Comes In First! Edition)
Actually, it’s not like the Boston Herald’s Press Party beat WGBH’s Beat the Press in last night’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight. It just beat BTP to the punch. (Full disclosure: The hardwatching staff was a longtime blah blah blah.) When … Continue reading
Boston Herald A Suffolk University Satellite Campus
There’s some serious co-branding going on at the Boston Herald these days, where the Suffolk University logo is on the feisty local tabloid like Howie Carr on a Bay State solon. For starters, there’s the Suffolk connection to the Herald’s … Continue reading
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