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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Upper Crustfallen Edition)

Full disclosure: The hardlunching staff has boycotted the Upper Crust pizza chain ever since the Boston Globe revealed its sleazy labor tactics in a series of reports last year. So it was with mixed emotions (good for the exploited workers/bad for the … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald: Baron Jumps Sinking Ship?)

Today’s Boston Globe has the front-page story on the exodus of editor Marty Baron. 11-year Globe editor Martin Baron to depart Will take reins at Washington Post Martin Baron , the editor of The Boston Globe who led the news organization as it … Continue reading

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It’s Good To LIve In A Two-Times Co. Town (College Live/Deadstock Edition)

Looks like the New York Times is rippin’ off its kissin’ cousin, the Boston Globe. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Monday’s Globe piece about Green Mountain College being oxymarooned: Lou the ox is quietly euthanized at Vt. college Injured animal … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (John Kerryoke’s Musical Chairs)

It’s Post time at the local dailies in the race to cover the Obama administration’s national security team fire drill. Both papers pick up a Washington Post story this morning. The Globe’s version, predictably, is lengthier . . .   Read … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Remembering Legendary Herald Reporter Joe Heaney)

Sunday’s Boston Herald featured a fond farewell to former reporter Joe Heaney, described by a co-worker as “just a wonderful man with a big, kind heart and witticisms to the end of time.” His time ended, Heaney received a two-gun salute, … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald Catches Up On Warren Bashing)

As the hardreading staff noted Friday, it was the Boston Globe that whacked Elizabeth Warren (D-It’s All Good) for her Marcel Marceau press conference on Thursday, while the Boston Herald gave her rare hall pass. The feisty local tabloid made up for it, however, … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Surprise! It’s The Globe That’s Bashing Elizabeth Warren)

Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren’s Marcel Marceau press conference yesterday got – wait for it – very different treatment in the local dailies today. But in a rare role reversal, it’s the Boston Herald giving her a free pass, while the Globe … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald Sees Red Over Brownout)

There is much weeping and gnashing of teeth and bitter recriminations at the feisty local tabloid over Scott Brown’s loss to Elizabeth Warren in the U.S. Senate bakeoff (Pow Wow Chow, anyone?). And know whose fault it is? YOURS! [Wednesday] … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Does Big Papi Have ‘Mental Issues’ With Bobby V?)

Newly re-signed Red Sox slugger David Ortiz apparently now feels free to talk about his relationship with shipwrecked Sox skipper Bobby Valentine, but the local dailies – wait for it – have very different versions of Big Papi’s take. From … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Poll Vaulting The Brown/Warren U.S. Senate Race)

The local dailies are – wait for it – presenting very different pictures of polling data in the runup to tomorrow’s actual voting in the U.S. Senate race between Scott Brown (R-I’m Nobody’s Senator But Yours) and Elizabeth Warren (D-I’m … Continue reading

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