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NYT Columnist Joe Nocera’s Media Culpa
In his Saturday op-ed column, New York Times chinstroker Joe Nocera punched into the News Corp(se) beatdown: The Journal Becomes Fox-ified It’s official. The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified. It took Rupert Murdoch only three and a half years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Murray, Joe Nocera, Les Hinton, media culpa, New York Times, News Corp(se), News of the World, Rupert Murdoch
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WSJ Boosts Ex-Herald Scribe; NYT Eviscerates Ben Mezrich
From our Book Review Review desk: Thursday’s Wall Street Journal featured a mostly-boffo review of Stealing Rembrandts, co-authored by Anthony Amore, head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Tom Mashberg, former Boston Herald reporter who’s been on … Continue reading
Posting Obituaries From The Grave
This week featured yet another Posthumous Obituary. Via Politico’s On Media blog: Betty Ford lives longer than the writer who wrote her obit in the WaPo. The writer? Donnie Radcliffe. Her obit is here. Radcliffe joins a growing list of late chroniclers of the … Continue reading
NYT Scoops Boston Papers On RFK Family’s JFK Library Snub
From Page One of today’s New York Times: Family of Robert F. Kennedy Rethinks His Place at Library As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy’s papers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, his family members are … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, John F. Kennedy Library, New York Times, Robert F. Kennedy
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All The ‘News Of The World’ That’s Fit To Print
The New York Times is having a field day with the Fall of the House (Organ) of Murdoch – aka the News of the World, kissin’ cousin of Times crosstown rival Wall Street Journal. Friday’s Times had five – count ’em, … Continue reading
Andrew Ferguson Boldly Goes Where None Of Us Want To: 21 Newt Gingrich Books
This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features some public-service journalism from Weekly Standard senior editor (high keening liberal outcries here) Andrew Ferguson. To wit: What Does Newt Gingrich Know? Let’s consult the literature — all 21 books by the self-proclaimed ideas … Continue reading
New York (Times Co.) Dumps Boston (Red Sox)
From our Every Penny Counts desk: New York Times Co. Sells Part of Its Stake in the Boston Red Sox That’s the headline in the Times. Kissin’ cousin Boston Globe headline: New York Times Co. sells part of Red Sox … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Sports Group, New York Times, Times Co.
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Boston: We’re Number Five! Boston University: We’re Number Whatever!!
Surveys, surveys everywhere . . . At the fancy-schmancy Aspen Ideas Festival this week (tip o’ the pixel: Politico Playbook), the Economist Intelligence Unit for Siemans released its U.S. and Canada Green City Index – and Boston made the Top Five: … Continue reading
NYT ‘Sunday Review’ Reviews
The hardworking staff weighed in early on the New York Times revamp of its Week in Review section (Memo To NYT Sunday Review: You A Mess, Honey), but of course others are having their say as well. From Politico‘s Keach … Continue reading
Memo To NYT Sunday Review: You A Mess, Honey
Last Sunday New York Times executive whatever Bill Keller penned a preview of the paper’s Week in Review reincarnation as Sunday Review: This latest change is about proportion and display. The Sunday Review will devote somewhat greater space to columnists … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Keller, executive whatever, New York Times, Sunday review, Week in Review
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