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Battle Of The Bulger (Rat-tat-Ptooey Edition)
The Boston Herald goes all news noir in today’s edition, starting with its Page One “Whitey and Crew in Their Lair” collage. (Just checked – Whitey and Crew aren’t on Pinterest yet) Inside we get this rogues’ gallery of State Police surveillance shots. Crosstown … Continue reading
Herald Hitches Carr To Globe
Apparently Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr has run out of ways to milk his presence on Whitey Bulger’s witness list, which would presumably keep him from covering the mobster’s trial in person. So the feisty local tabloid has followed in the … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Cullen The Facts Edition)
The Boston Herald wants you to know it’s on the Whitey Bulger trial like Brown on Williamson, so they’re running this ad in today’s edition: And here’s an example of that “complete coverage.” Witness ban lifted for Globe duo Judge Denise J. … Continue reading
Battle Of The Bulger (Can I Be A Witness? Edition)
The Boston Globe is reporting on its website that its reporters can cover the trial of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Judge rejects Bulger effort to ban Globe journalists US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper ruled today that Boston Globe columnist Kevin … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Battle Of The Bulger Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald is still pounding away at Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Elsewhere) over the Massachusetts welfare rumpus, but the feisty local tabloid has its eye on bigger game next week when the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger … Continue reading
Whitey Wars In Local Dailies
From our Dueling Excerpts desk For the past three days, the Boston Herald has been excerpting columnist Howie Carr’s new book Rifleman: The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. (The hardreading staff suspects that lots of the book is … Continue reading
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Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day Two
The Schadenfreude Gazette is at it again today: Obligatory two-page spread: Helpful chart . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Jerry Holbrt, Jessica Heslam, Kevin Cullen, Mark Jurkowitz, New York Times Co, News Corp, Project for Excellence in Journalism, reptilian Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch, The Schadenfreude Gazette
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Throwing The Book(s) At Whitey Bulger
Dueling book plugs in the local dailies the past two days, starting with this Boston Sunday Globe Page One pompom: A window into Whitey’s brutal life and mind New biography traces Bulger’s rise, reign, and the reckoning ahead As he sits … Continue reading
Who Is @BCSubpoenaNews?
The dustup over US prosecutors’ stooging for British authorities in the quest for Boston College’s IRA oral history archives has spilled over into the social mediascape. Say hello to @BCSubpoenaNews, a new Twitter feed that promises to “Keep [you] up … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony McIntyre, BCSubpoenaNews, Boston College, Boston Globe, Ed Moloney, Irish Republican Army, Jack Dunn, Kevin Cullen
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