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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (RateBU.com Edition)

  (Disclosure: 1) I’ve been a full-time professor at Boston University for the past 5 1/2 years; 2) I’ve never voted on RateBU.com.) From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Website lets BU women be rated; many object A new website allowing Boston … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Boston Magazine Edition)

Yet another Boston magazine editor has hit the ejector seat. Andy (We Hardly Knew Ye) Putz has exited the publication – which couldn’t create buzz if it whacked a beehive – after all of 17 months as editor. That much … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Jeff Derderian Edition)

While the Boston Herald most often serves as a lively index to the Boston Globe, sometimes the feisty tabloid kicks the boring broadsheet’s ass. Case in point: Saturday’s dead tree editions of the local dailies. The Herald, for its part, … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Gil McDougald Edition)

Tuesday Boston Globe obit (from the Associated Press): Gil McDougald; won 5 World Series with Yankees Photo: Lede: NEW YORK — Gil McDougald, an All-Star infielder who helped the New York Yankees win five World Series during the 1950s, has died. He … Continue reading

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Howie Carr(less) Fudges 2010 Election Results

The hardflying staff returned to Boston to find another in a series of Howie Carr man-crush pieces about Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Boston Herald). From Wednesday’s feisty tabloid: Scott Brown may have been a hidden winner in the GOP wipeout … Continue reading

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Free The Boston Herald 1!

Yesterday, the hardworking staff registered for an eight-day free trial of the Boston Herald’s SmartEdition, which enabled us to produce this Paul Szep/Zip Resemblance post, complete with Scott Brown naricature. Flash forward to today, when we wanted to post a Szep/Zip … Continue reading

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Szep’s Drawings: Zip Resemblance To Subjects

For a long time now, the hardworking staff has noticed that Paul Szep’s caricatures for the Boston Herald in no way resemble the characters themselves. Exhibit Umpteen (from a Monday op-ed about Massachusetts Sen. Scott “Who’s Jeff Perry?” Brown): Szeriously – … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Kennedy Column Edition)

Two – count ’em, two – columns from the Kennedy clan in Saturday’s Boston dailies, both dealing with energy-related matters. Exhibit A (from the Boston Globe): JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II Keeping the heat on Fuel assistance is not only worth … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Chuck Turner Edition)

Saturday Boston Globe Page One: Turner found guilty of accepting cash bribe Chuck Turner, the fiery civil rights activist who has been a city councilor for more than a decade, was convicted yesterday of all the charges at his federal … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Circulation Decline Edition)

The Audit Bureau of Circulations has issued its latest report cards for the nation’s newspapers,  and the state of print journalism is . . . weak. But not as weak as last year. Good news! Daily papers are dying more … Continue reading

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