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Tag Archives: New York Times
Ad o’ the Clay®
Welcome to the truly weird Cats Against Clay campaign: Here’s a press release explaining at least part of it: Cat owners across the U.S. are receiving a clear message from their resident felines: No more clay litter! The demand is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cats Against Clay, Facebook, New York Times, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube
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Goldman Sachs Sacked (Too Late) By SEC, News Media
First, the good news: Joe Nocera is back at the New York Times. Now, the bad news: Nocera’s Talking Business column, which has been on leave for what seems like forever, came back on Saturday with a bang headlined, “A Wall … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Three-Newspaper Town (New Luck Times Edition)
Barnburner of a sermon at St. Michael’s Parish in East Longmeadow this past Sunday. We know that because New York Times reporter Katie Zezima was there to mash up the Rev. James J. Scahill’s jeremiad about the Roman Catholic Church’s … Continue reading
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Tagged James J. Scahill, Katie Zezima, New York Times, Stephen Kiesle
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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Newspaper Town (Bulldog Edition)
Thursday’s trifecta of local coverage in the Phoebe Prince suicide case #1: Thursday Boston Herald headline: Pol: No foul by school No longer seeking review in bully case Lede: South Hadley state Rep. John Scibak yesterday backed off his demand … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Katie Zezima, New York Times, Phoebe Prince
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Dead Blogging The Tiger Woods Press Conference
The Tiger Woods coming out party Monday afternoon was a drama in three acts: ACT ONE: THE OPTICS a) The moustache and goatee, designed to distance the new (good!) self from the old (bad!) self. b) Five logos from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambien, Elin Woods, Jonathan Mahler, Masters, New York Times, press conference, Tiger Woods, Woods-shed
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New York Times InflatoMeter™
The Good Gray Lady has a tendency to take some small trend and, well, inflate it on Page One. (Your bitter memories go here.) Exhibit Triple-Y: Wednesday’s front-page piece headlined “In E-Book Era, You Can’t Even Judge a Cover.” Nut … Continue reading
Grand Old Party Animals
The Michael Steele wing of the Republican Party has opened up a family-size can of worms. Via the New York Times The Caucus blog: R.N.C. Dismisses Aide Over Outing to Club A Republican Party spokesman said Monday evening that a … Continue reading
Free The City Hall One!
From our Late to the Party desk: The umpteenth Boston Globe piece (in Sunday’s edition) on Boston City Hall as the ugliest building in town, at least according to local residents. Maybe . . . But wait! Don’t answer yet! … Continue reading
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Tagged 1969, Ada Louise Huxtable, Boston City Hall, New York Times
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The Big Town Broadsheet Bakeoff
From a Monday New York Times front-page Business piece headlined, “Wall Street Journal Aims to Win Over The Times’s Local Audience:” In an attempt to eat into The [New York] Times’s mass-market audience and lure away some of its luxury … Continue reading
All The News That Fits
Saturday’s New York Times featured not a single full-page ad in its A Section until the last page – a house ad flacking the Times website vs. its Wall Street Journal counterpart. Times ad headline: Looking to reach nearly twice … Continue reading