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Our Beat The Press Party Bakeoff (Nelson Mandela Edition)
In this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, it’s not, as often happens, that the local media hall monitors are operating in different universes. It’s that they’re operating on different days. Start as always with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. This … Continue reading
More Than One Hitch To Baker/Polito Union
The shotgun wedding between Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker and lieutenant governor hopeful Karyn Polito had its engagement announcement in Monday’s Boston Globe. Running mate issue gets thornier for Charlie Baker Karyn E. Polito, the former Republican legislator who lost a 2010 … Continue reading
Boston Herald’s BRAmpage, Part Three
The feisty local tabloid’s real-estate crusade continues today, with two full pages dedicated to ripping the lid off Mayor Tom Menino and his Boston Redevelopment Authority marionettes. Of special note is this whack at one BRA member in particular (if you guessed that he … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (John Henry Epistolary Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features a fresh face this week. Start, as usual, with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast has a new host, as Friday’s edition of the Herald trumpeted (and the hardreading staff … Continue reading
Globe Has Staggering Ad-vantage Over Herald
Once the Boston Red Sox – sorry, World Series Champion Red Sox – took Game 6, flooded the clubhouse with bubbly, painted the town Red for the rest of Wednesday night, and rode the duck boats into MLB history, it was all … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Two Different Worlds Edition Umpteen)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight proceeded apace last Friday, and for the umpteenth time the two local media hall monitors operated in parallel universes. Start, as always, with Underdog Boston Herald’s Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast featured this lineup of topics: … Continue reading
Herald’s Koji-tations Are Krazy
The hardreading staff gets it that Pennant Fever Grips Hub Tabloid (just check out pages 1 through 5, along with the actual Sports section). But then the feisty local fanzoid goes overboard. From today’s Back Page: Uehara among greats? Really? The guy has 24 … Continue reading
Russel Pergament’s Jewish News Service Is Totally Old Testament
Several days ago the hardreading staff posted an item about the Jewish News Service running this ad in the Boston Herald but not the Boston Globe. We also said we’d try to contact JNS founder (and inveterate publishing bunny) Russel Pergament to ask, among other … Continue reading
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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (WGBH/David Koch Edition)
The latest Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight featured an interesting contrast in the two local media hall monitors’ coverage of the WGBH/David Koch rumpus. Start with Underdog Press Party, the Boston Herald’s weekly Wayne’s World webcast. Its latest edition led with a segment … Continue reading
WGBH Herald Hostage, Day 2
The Kochheads are here! Defenders of conservative billionaire David Koch are going after the liberal activists going after Koch for giving a reported $18.6 to local public broadcaster WGBH over the past three decades. From [Saturday’s] Boston Herald: Koch foes blasted … Continue reading
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