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Tag Archives: It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town
Why The Boston Herald Should Respect The Boston Globe (Annie Dookhan Edition)
From the Boston Sunday Globe’s front page: The Globe proceeded to devote another page-and-a-half to tracking defendants freed by Dookhan’s crime lab debacle . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Vin Scully Celebrations: Globe 1, Herald 0
Vin Scully, the legendary 85-year-old broadcaster who has called Los Angeles Dodgers games for lo, these last 64 years, has just re-upped for 2014, and the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy paid tribute to him in Sunday’s edition. Vin Scully simply the best … Continue reading
WQOM Catholic Radio Billboard: Try ‘God Damn’
The billboard that WQOM Catholic Radio posted earlier this month has gotten the local station plenty of attention. Start with this report in the Boston Pilot: Radio station launches ‘Try God’ billboard campaign BOSTON — 1060 AM WQOM Catholic Radio is launching … Continue reading
Boston Herald A Day Late, $500,000 Short On Mayoral Race
Preliminary indications are that our feisty local tabloid is taking a pass on the Boston mayoral race. The first competitive City Hall election in 20 years is apparently less important than the non-existent political career of a certain Scott Brown … Continue reading
Herald Goes Double ‘Dutch’
The Boston Herald devotes two pages today to remembrances of the great Elmore Leonard, who died yesterday at age 87. Start with the Associated Press obituary, which begins “He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the … Continue reading
Al Jazeera America Has Bad News For The Boston Herald
The hardreading staff gets four newspapers delivered to the Global Worldwide Headquarters every day: Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Guess which one didn’t have an ad promoting today’s launch of Al Jazeera America, the Qatar-based news … Continue reading
Brown Is The New Block(head)
Of all the nudnik 2016 presidential wannabes (Peter King! Martin O’Malley! Come on down!), Scott Brown (R-Fox News) ranks among the most delusional. But you’d never know that from reading the Boston Herald. Today’s Page One: Inside, the feisty local tabloid … Continue reading
Tony C Tributes: Globe 1, Herald 0
Forty-six years ago today, Red Sox homeboy and Hall-of-Fame sureshot Tony Conigliaro had his baseball career turned inside out. From Bob Ryan’s terrific Boston Globe column today: Tony Conigliaro would have been an all-time great I was there. I was there, and … Continue reading
Jock Shock: WEEI’s Jason Wolfe Punchout
The local dailies turn a quick double play today in their coverage of the shakeup at former sportstalk powerhouse WEEI. Start with the Boston Herald, which goes all Page One over the firing of longtime WEEI VP of programming/operations Jason … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider 