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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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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Katie Zezima, New York Times, Phoebe Prince
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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
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
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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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Cape Wind, New York Times
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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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Tagged Boston Herald, radio mixmaster, Strange Bedfellows Bureau, Tom Brady, WGBH
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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
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
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