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All’s Weld That Ends Weld
Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld (R-Amber-Colored Liquid) made a house call at the Boston Herald yesterday, and the feisty local tabloid made him its coverboy today (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages). Inside was a two-page Weldian trifecta, starting with Big … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Weld, Boston Herald, Dowager Countess, Downton Abbey, IGTLTDT, Margery Eagan, Tim Cahill
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Brain Freeze At Boston Herald
Monday’s Boston Globe featured major coverage of a major brain injury study from Boston University. Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff moonlights as a mass communication professor at BU.) . . . Read the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged AP, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston University, brain study, IGTLTDT, School of Medicine, Wingo Square
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Safe-T First?
Saturday’s local dailies duly reported on Thursday’s MBTA trolley-car crash, the latest in a series of T-bonehead incidents over the past several years. The Boston Herald, as usual, has the basics . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, IGTLTDT, MBTA, Safe-T First, T-bonehead
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Track Gals (And Megan!) Rip Off Hardworking Staff
Yesterday the hardworking staff at kissin’ cousin Campaign Outsider noted that the Boston Globe was having a difficult time distinguishing between the late Tip O’Neill and Ken Howard, who played Tip in a local stage production. From yesterday’s boston.com homepage . . … Continue reading
Dearth And Taxes
Two – wait for it – very different takes on Taxachusetts in today’s local dailies. Start with this glass-half-empty front-page piece in the Boston Globe: Mass. tax revenues decline; budget trims loom Looks for ways to curb spending; automatic cut in taxes … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Deval Patrick, Holly Robichaud, IGTLTDT, Taxachusetts
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Gronkpocalypse 2! (Formerly Gronkmageddon 2!)
The Boston Herald is a bit bipolar in its Gronkoverage of the Patriots tight end, who broke his arm on a meaningless play in Sunday’s rout of the Indianapolis Colts. (Front page: THE GRONK CRISIS. Back page: GOTTA MOVE ON.) … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Gerry Callahan, Gronk, IGTLTDT, New England Patriots, Rob Gronkowski, Ron Borges
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Boston Herald: Gronkpocalypse! No, Wait – Gronkmaggedon!
Today’s Boston Herald is all Rob Gronkowski all the time. Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): And just in case you haven’t absorbed the seriousness of the situation, here’s the back cover of the feisty local tabloid . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Gronkmageddon, Gronkocalypse, IGTLTDT, Rob Gronkowski, The Newseum, Today's Front Pages
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald: City Haul In Menino’s Absence)
It’s now three weeks Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s been in the hospital with a Whitman’s Sampler of symptoms, and not surprisingly, political maneuvering is the order of the day (although anyone who bets against Menino running again doesn’t really care … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston mayoral race, Brian McGrory, Great Mentioner, IGTLTDT, Joe Battenfeld, Peter Gelzinis, Tom Menino
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald’s Breaking News: Herald Breaking News)
Walt (“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”) Whitman would love the Boston Herald today. The feisty local tabloid devotes Page One to . . . itself! Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: Read the rest at IGTLTDT.
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Tagged Boston Herald, IGTLTDT, Song of Myself, The Newseum, Today's Front Pages, Walt Whitman
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