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Tag Archives: Joe Battenfeld
More Than One Hitch To Baker/Polito Union
The shotgun wedding between Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker and lieutenant governor hopeful Karyn Polito had its engagement announcement in Monday’s Boston Globe. Running mate issue gets thornier for Charlie Baker Karyn E. Polito, the former Republican legislator who lost a 2010 … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (John Henry Epistolary Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features a fresh face this week. Start, as usual, with the Boston Herald’s Underdog Press Party. The Wayne’s World webcast has a new host, as Friday’s edition of the Herald trumpeted (and the hardreading staff … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Parallel Universes Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight saw the local media hall monitors go their separate ways in the topics they chose. Start, as usual, with the Underdog Boston Herald Press Party. Its Wayne’s World webcast began with host Joe Battenfeld saying this: … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Boston Herald Radio Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight proceeded apace last Friday, with both local media hall monitors assessing the Boston Herald’s new Garage Broadband Radio station scheduled to debut this week. Start, as usual, with the Underdog: the Herald’s Wayne’s World webcast, … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (PBS=Panel’s Big Sneer Edition)
A nice little crisscross in this week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight: The tabloid went after a public broadcasting star journalist, while the public broadcaster cuffed around the tabloid’s star columnist. Start, as usual, with the Underdog: The Boston Herald’s Press Party webcast … 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
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Joe Battlefield Edition)
It was clear from the start that the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the underdog Boston Herald Press Party webcast and the big dog WGBH Beat the Press broadcast would eventually turn into a slapfight providing countless hours of entertainment for … Continue reading
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Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Beat The Herald Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight resumed last night, with the Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party webcast featuring this: The Boston Herald’s “Press Party” gives credit to local media for outperforming the national print and TV networks in our half-hour show devoted to … Continue reading
Tom Menino Needs To Resign
Yesterday’s horrific bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line should mark the finish line for Tom Menino as Boston’s mayor. Menino was effectively nowhere in the aftermath of the tragic event. Sure, he showed up at a press conference, as … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (U.S. Senate Debate-o-Rama)
The Boston Herald has officially become a perpetual self-promotion machine. Case in point: The feisty local tabloid 1) co-sponsored a UMass-Lowell debate last night between Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch (that’s good); 2) streamed it live … Continue reading
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