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It’s Good To LIve In A Two-Daily Town (Whitey Bulger Dime-Dropper Edition)
Immutable rule of newspaper physics: For every Boston Globe action, there’s an equal and apposite Boston Herald reaction. Case in point: the Globe’s Whitey Bulger’s life in exile lid-ripper, which revealed that Icelandic beauty Anna Bjornsdottir – late of Noxzema and … Continue reading
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Campaign Outsider Whitey Bulger E-Book Alert (pat. pending)
Totally excellent front-page piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe on Whitey Bulger’s life in exile. Two immediate results: 1) Forget that thing about the Icelandic dime-dropper being an FBI fabrication: The Icelandic beauty [Anna Bjornsdottir], who gained minor fame decades ago … Continue reading
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So Maybe It WASN’T The Ads That Nabbed Whitey Bulger (IV)
The hardworking staff has dutifully detailed the many indications that the FBI-runs-an-ad-campaign-and-nabs-Whitey-Bulger story is a total myth. Now comes more skepticism from – wait for it – the Boston Herald. From Friday’s Herald: Iceland paper: Reward tale fishy A companion … Continue reading