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Tag Archives: Boston Herald
Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Murray?
The local dailies have very – all together now – different takes on yesterday’s swan song for Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray. The Boston Globe runs it upper left on today’s front page: The Boston Herald gives it all of Page One: And … Continue reading
Herald: No College Credit For UMass/Dartmouth
From our Two Different Worlds desk Another 7-10 split in the local dailies today, this time over the relationship between UMass/Dartmouth and suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Start with Rachelle Cohen’s op-ed in the Boston Herald: UMass flunking Marathon test Secrecy … Continue reading
Globe Still Has Memorial Ad-vantage Over Herald (‘Buck’ Bay Association Edition)
The post-Boston Marathon bombings ads continue to gravitate toward our stately local broadsheet. For starters, the Boston Sunday Globe featured this half-page ad: Topping that was this full-page ad in the same edition . . . Read the rest at It’s Good … Continue reading
Two Funerals And Awaiting
Today’s local dailies have – wait for it – very different takes on the disposition of suspected Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body. Start – where else? – with the Boston Herald’s front page: Inside you get a twofer: this Peter Gelzinis column and, … Continue reading
Editorial Smackdown: Herald Blowtorches Globe
Have some asbestos gloves handy if you’re reading the Boston Herald today. Here’s the lede of the lead editorial: The whole narrative confirms that while the radical motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers — and perhaps, it remains to be seen, … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Joe Battlefield Edition)
It was clear from the start that the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the underdog Boston Herald Press Party webcast and the big dog WGBH Beat the Press broadcast would eventually turn into a slapfight providing countless hours of entertainment for … Continue reading
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Local Dailies Taking Care Of (One Another’s) Business
In a variation on the old Does Macy’s Tell Gimbel’s? question, the Globe is telling on the Herald – and vice versa. From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Globe circulation continues climb Paid digital subscriptions rise nearly 50% Paid circulation at The Boston Globe continues to climb … Continue reading
Globe Runs Massive Marathon Bombing Tick-Tock; Herald, A Tic
From our Compare & Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Some days – very often Sundays – the difference between the local dailies is starker than usual. Today is one such day. The Boston Globe has published what, so far … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Beat The Herald Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight resumed last night, with the Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party webcast featuring this: The Boston Herald’s “Press Party” gives credit to local media for outperforming the national print and TV networks in our half-hour show devoted to … Continue reading
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