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Tag Archives: It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town
A Tale Of Two Columnists (Jason Collins Edition)
Joe Fitzgerald plays yin to Adrian Walker’s yang in the local dailies today regarding Jason Collins’ coming-out party. Here’s how Walker starts out his Boston Globe column: Jason Collins’ quiet facilitator When Jason Collins got in touch with his friend US … Continue reading
Globe Runs Massive Marathon Bombing Tick-Tock; Herald, A Tic
From our Compare & Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk Some days – very often Sundays – the difference between the local dailies is starker than usual. Today is one such day. The Boston Globe has published what, so far … Continue reading
Herald Revising History Again (Bombing Coverage Coverup II)
The Boston Herald continues to criticize news organizations that erroneously reported an arrest two days after the Marathon bombings – without noting that the feisty local tabloid itself did exactly the same thing. Exhibit A: The Herald’s Press Party webbcast on Friday, … Continue reading
Globe & Herald In Photo Finish With Matt Damon
From our Don’t Know What to Make of This desk This is a headscratcher: Carbon-copy photos in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, attributed to different photographers. From the Herald’s Inside Track: Matt Damon: ‘It’s good to be home’ “(Bleeping) disgusting.” Matt … Continue reading
Fox News Joins Boston Herald Welfare Jihad
As the hardreading staff at Two-Daily Town has chronicled, the Boston Herald is hellbent on blaming the Massachusetts welfare system for the Marathon bombings last week. Now comes the cavalry, compliments of Fox News (via Mediaite). The Five Rails Against Boston … 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
What Did Tyler Tweet? Boston Globe Not Seguin
Chalk up yet another homophobic tweet, this time from Boston Bruins player Tyler Seguin. As Track Gal Gayle Fee noted in today’s Boston Herald: Seguin sorry for tweet Bruins baby Tyler Seguin apologized yesterday for a tweet he sent out that some have called homophobic. … 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
Boston Herald: All The Clues That Fit, We Print
While most news organizations are still trying to find out what actually did happen last week in the wake of the Marathon bombings, the Boston Herald is busily reporting what will (or won’t) happen. Today’s front page: The story itself . . . Read … Continue reading
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