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Tag Archives: Howie Carr
Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Murray?
The local dailies have very – all together now – different takes on yesterday’s swan song for Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray. The Boston Globe runs it upper left on today’s front page: The Boston Herald gives it all of Page One: And … Continue reading
Hack Attack By Boston Herald!!
From our Two Different Worlds desk Luckily for us, our feisty local tabloid has dug deep and unearthed the real villains in the Boston Marathon bombings. Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts welfare system. The action gets started on Page One: … Continue reading
Howie Carr’s Next Column
You’re Howie Carr and here’s what you wrote in today’s Boston Herald: A hit to Deval Patrick’s welfare state Is Gov. Deval Patrick serious? He doesn’t know the motivation of the terrorists? On Sunday he went on “Face the Nation,” and host … Continue reading
Whitey Wars In Local Dailies
From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading
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Boston Herald Wants To Beat WGBH’s Beat The Press
Our feisty local tabloid has increasingly increased its video production lately (Exhibit A: High Noon), and yesterday it upped the ante with the introduction of the Boston Herald Press Party on Page 2: Copy: And then there was … Continue reading
Herald Columnists Double-Team Gabriel Gomez
GOP Senate wannabe Gabriel Gomez gets tuned up real good in the Boston Herald today. Two columnists – Howie Carr and Michael Graham – give Gomez a working-over (the kind of pigpile that’s a specialty at our feisty local tabloid) for … Continue reading
OMG! Herald Columnist Can’t Write!
The hardreading staff is nothing if not realistic about the writing abilities at the Boston Herald. Some are terrific writers – Margery Eagan & Peter Gelzinis, take a bow; and some are dreadful – Howie Carr, come on down! Now … Continue reading
On Second Thought, Let’s Not Skip Over Howie Carr’s Latest Bulk-Mail Offering
Earlier today, the hardreading staff wrote this in assessing the latest Boston Herald assault on its crosstown rival Boston Globe’s imminent sale: Let’s skip over Howie Carr’s bulk-mail offering (“I have next to nothing in common with the pampered pukes of Morrissey Boulevard — … Continue reading
Throwing The Book(s) At Whitey Bulger
Dueling book plugs in the local dailies the past two days, starting with this Boston Sunday Globe Page One pompom: A window into Whitey’s brutal life and mind New biography traces Bulger’s rise, reign, and the reckoning ahead As he sits … Continue reading
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