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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Newspaper Town (Bulldog Edition)

Thursday’s trifecta of local coverage in the Phoebe Prince suicide case #1: Thursday Boston Herald headline: Pol: No foul by school No longer seeking review in bully case Lede: South Hadley state Rep. John Scibak yesterday backed off his demand … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Maddow As Hell Edition)

Friday’s Boston Globe featured a full-page open letter from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about . . . well, just read it: The Friday Globe failed to actually report on the dustup, but the Boston Herald – Tabloids Rule! – ran … Continue reading

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Boston Herald’s Inside Trick

Given the libel lawsuit filed this week by rock band Boston’s Tom Scholz against the Boston Herald’s Inside Track gals Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa – which the Herald has not covered – is it just a coincidence that on … Continue reading

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It’s Good to Live in a Three-Newspaper Town

Open up the New York Times Tuesday and here’s what tops page A11: For Cape Cod Wind Farm, New Hurdle Is Spiritual Julia Cumes/Associated Press Two Massachusetts Indian tribes have objected to the Cape Wind project, saying it would block … Continue reading

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Hark! The Herald!

From our Strange Bedfellows Bureau: The Boston Herald has become an underwriter at WGBH, the local public broadcaster that’s turned into a radio mixmaster with 89.7 FM going news/talk and WGBH’s classical programming going to 99.5 FM. And now here’s … Continue reading

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It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town

Poor Boston Red Sox owner and newlywed John Henry: His hedge fund, John W. Henry & Co., is reportedly down from $2.5 billion to a mere $188 million. That’s the B-to-M Jackpot® every hedge fund fears. Consequently Henry has slashed a … Continue reading

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Swag for Squirtguns

To its ongoing dismay, the Boston Herald suffers from a rare newspaper affliction: Its Sunday circulation is lower than its daily. So as a public service: Herald reporter Marie Szaniszlo filed a doozy of a good ol’ shoe-leather story in … Continue reading

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It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town

I’ve often characterized the Boston Herald as a lively index to the Boston Globe, but on Saturday the feisty local tabloid absolutely blowtorched (I think) what it likes to call “the boring broadsheet.” Globe headline: EMC cofounder Richard Egan dies … Continue reading

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