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Boston Herald: A Year In Picture
The hardreading staff has long been baffled by BostonHerald.com, which is to news websites what the Edsel was to automobiles. Exhibit Umpteen: The Herald’s online Year in Pictures, which features up to one photo. . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Edsel, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Year in Pictures
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Howie Carr’s WTKK Drive-By
Boston Herald columnist/WRKO squawker Howie Carr is experiencing an extreme bout of Howenfreude over the demise of FM talk station WTKK. (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff did a weekly segment on the Jim & Margery show.) Today’s triumphant nyah-nyah from Carr: Talk radio’s not dead, just … Continue reading
Herald Can’t Make Up Mind About Markey
First today’s Boston Herald tells us this: Mr. Ed draws yawn in Senate horse race Seriously, is this the best the Democrats can come up with? Ed Markey? This is a guy who has been in Congress for 36 years — … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Ed Markey, John Kerry, Rob Gray, Scott Brown, U.S. Senate, Victoria Reggie Kennedy
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Our Dogged Local Tabloid II
Sad to say, the Boston Herald’s gala two-part series on the Boston Police K-9 Unit ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. What earned Page One treatment yesterday (plus a 17-paragraph, tw0-video report) is shuffled off to page 11 today, … Continue reading
Our Dogged Local Tabloid
The Boston Herald, God love it, is always scrapping to retain its foothold in the local news media, which leads to enterprising front pages like Wednesday’s (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): Part One of the series focuses on the K-9 … Continue reading
WGBH = Whacked Good By Herald
From our While We Were Out desk While the hardreading staff was down the Big Town, the Boston Herald gave WGHB a real thrashing last Friday, featuring this Jessica Heslam column on Page Two: High-living WGBH owes $300G Public TV behemoth WGBH … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Carmen Ortiz, federal fine, Googletron, Jessica Heslam, Massachusetts U.S. Attorney, WGBH
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SEIU Goes Anti-Psychotic
When a local labor union decides to take a workplace dispute public in a newspaper ad campaign, the knee-jerk locale would be the Boston Herald, champion of all things blue-collar. Not so in the case of the SEIU’s current crusade against HealthBridge that … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, HealthBridge, HealthBridgeWatch, SEIU
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Local Dailies Kerry On With Senate Speculation
It’s no secret that the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald inhabit entirely different political landscapes here in the Bay State. Exhibit Umpteen: Their respective takes on who might succeed Sen. John Kerry (D-Reporting for Due-ty) if he gets what … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Ed Markey, Glen Johnson, Howie Carr, John Kerry, Mike Capuano, Secretary of State
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Scott Brown’s Mash Note To Himself
Oddly enough, it was the Boston Globe – not the Boston Herald – that ran this Scott Brown op-ed that was all about . . . him. A pleasure and a privilege FOR THE past three years, I have had the great honor … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Dodd-Frank, Scott Brown, Scottie-Come-Lately
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