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Howie Ya Like Me Now?

Yesterday Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr whacked Barney (Not So) Frank around for “[going] to the mat in obtaining a six-figure hack job for his then-boyfriend, Herbie Moses, at, of all places, Fannie Mae” in 1991. After trotting out the usual … Continue reading

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Boston Herald Says Boston Globe’s Definitely For Sale. Maybe. Or Not.

Today’s Boston Herald has the scoop on a possible Boston Globe sale: Analysts say: Don’t be fooled, Globe’s for sale The New York Times [NYT] Co. would definitely unload The Boston Globe — for the right price — according to media analysts, despite … Continue reading

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That’s Just So Girly! (Tom Brady Edition)

Tom Brady, Girlyman (Part Umpteen). Via Monday’s Boston Herald Inside Track: Tom & Gi’s wild ride Wwwwwweeeeeeeeee! New England Patriots [team stats] QB/QT Tom Brady[stats] scored some alone time with his beauteous bikini-clad Brazilian bride Gisele Bundchen in Los Cabos, Mexico, over the weekend. And what … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Doug Rubin Edition)

As the corruption trial of former Massachusetts House Speaker Sale DiMasi proceeds apace, it’s instructive to track the coverage in Boston’s two dailies. From Monday’s Boston Globe: The witnesses expected this week include David Simas, a White House adviser and … Continue reading

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Dead Blogging Katie Couric’s BU Commencement Address

So after Boston University had conferred honorary doctorates on Frank (Always Color Inside the Lines) Stella, Nina (Proud BU Dropout) Totenberg, and Jacques (The Most Cookin’ Professor) Pépin, it was Katie, BU the Door. Introduced as someone who had scaled … Continue reading

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Obamarama Loses Steam At Boston Herald

The feisty local tabloid has been in high dudgeon over the Mitt Snit or Hub Snub or whatever you want to call the Obama administration’s barring of Boston Herald reporters from the press pool for the president’s drive-by pickpocketing of … Continue reading

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Boston Herald Dines On Obama Snub

Being rejected from the press pool for Barack Obama’s moneyblitz to MATM yesterday was the gift that keeps on giving for the Boston Herald. Today’s edition of the feisty local tabloid has seven – count ’em, seven! – separate pieces on … Continue reading

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Banned In Boston (Herald): White House Whacks Local Tabloid

From our Stuff Dreams Are Made Of desk: White House shuts out Herald scribe The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper’s … Continue reading

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Boston Dailies Give MBTA A Pass On Anti-Gay Group’s Transit Ad

From BostInnovation: MBTA To Remove Ad Campaign From A Homophobic Website [Monday] around 7pm,  BostonTweet posted this tweet with the accompanying image (left). The image depicts an ad from FamilyRadio.com on a MBTA bus.  Although the messaging is pretty dark, it is not … Continue reading

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Boston Herald Moves To Be All The News That’s New To Print

As the hardworking staff has noted, the Boston Herald has been Yesterday’s News Tomorrow ever since it moved its printing to Chicopee, Mass. But that might change soon. From today’s Herald: Herald, Globe propose delivery and printing pact The Herald has … Continue reading

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