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Correction o’ the Day (Bad News for Oysters Edition)
From Wednesday’s New York Times Corrections: NEW YORK An article in some editions on Thursday about the approval of a $511 million loan to build a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge misstated the portion of the loan that could be … Continue reading
Necrofilmia: The Michael Jackson Edition
Back in 1991, it was Paula Abdul dancing in a Diet Coke commercial with the long-gone Cary Grant, Groucho Marx, and Gene Kelly: Now it’s Pepsi resurrecting Michael Jackson, the Wall Street Journal reports: Pepsi Brings Back the King … Continue reading
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Boston Herald Readers Have Unsuspected Depth
From Monday’s Boston Herald Letters to the Editor: Eagan panned Margery Eagan reminds me of that character in Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise Blood,” an angry apostate hell-bent on starting a new church (“A hard pill for bishops to swallow,” Feb. 9). … Continue reading
Imus in the Mourning?
The ever-chastised Don Imus began simulcasting his ever-castrated morning radio show on the Fox Business cable network Monday morning. That would be the same Fox Business powerhouse that draws up to 25,000 21,000 viewers daily. (Translation: Fox Business essentially has … Continue reading