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Tag Archives: It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town
Massachusetts Welfare? Well, Foul! (II)
This is mother’s milk to our feisty local tabloid. The Boston Herald is on the Massachusetts welfare abuse scandal like Brown on Williamson. Today’s edition goes yesterday’s one better, with three – count ‘em, three – full pages of pleased-as-punch … Continue reading
Massachusetts Welfare? Well, Foul!
The new audit of the Massachusetts welfare system gets very – say it with me – different treatment in the local dailies today. Boston Globe Page One: Lede . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a … Continue reading
Boston Herald A Suffolk University Satellite Campus
There’s some serious co-branding going on at the Boston Herald these days, where the Suffolk University logo is on the feisty local tabloid like Howie Carr on a Bay State solon. For starters, there’s the Suffolk connection to the Herald’s … Continue reading
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
Herald: No College Credit For UMass/Dartmouth
From our Two Different Worlds desk Another 7-10 split in the local dailies today, this time over the relationship between UMass/Dartmouth and suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Start with Rachelle Cohen’s op-ed in the Boston Herald: UMass flunking Marathon test Secrecy … Continue reading
Globe Still Has Memorial Ad-vantage Over Herald (‘Buck’ Bay Association Edition)
The post-Boston Marathon bombings ads continue to gravitate toward our stately local broadsheet. For starters, the Boston Sunday Globe featured this half-page ad: Topping that was this full-page ad in the same edition . . . Read the rest at It’s Good … Continue reading
Two Funerals And Awaiting
Today’s local dailies have – wait for it – very different takes on the disposition of suspected Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body. Start – where else? – with the Boston Herald’s front page: Inside you get a twofer: this Peter Gelzinis column and, … Continue reading
Editorial Smackdown: Herald Blowtorches Globe
Have some asbestos gloves handy if you’re reading the Boston Herald today. Here’s the lede of the lead editorial: The whole narrative confirms that while the radical motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers — and perhaps, it remains to be seen, … Continue reading
Local Dailies Taking Care Of (One Another’s) Business
In a variation on the old Does Macy’s Tell Gimbel’s? question, the Globe is telling on the Herald – and vice versa. From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Globe circulation continues climb Paid digital subscriptions rise nearly 50% Paid circulation at The Boston Globe continues to climb … Continue reading
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