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Seamus Sweepstakes™
As her latest piece indicates, New York Times columnist Gail Collins is temperamentally incapable of mentioning Mitt Romney without adding “who once drove to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of his car.” So Campaign Outsider has … Continue reading
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Tagged Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, New York Times, rufftop pooch, Seamus Sweepstakes
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Boston Herald Says Boston Globe’s Definitely For Sale. Maybe. Or Not.
Today’s Boston Herald has the scoop on a possible Boston Globe sale: Analysts say: Don’t be fooled, Globe’s for sale The New York Times [NYT] Co. would definitely unload The Boston Globe — for the right price — according to media analysts, despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Janet Robinson, New York Times
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The Price of Privacy Loss and the Cost of Privacy Protection
It’s the Data Do-Gooders vs. the Gossip No-Goodniks. Public disclosure of private information was hot in Sunday’s papers, with both the New York Times and kissin’ cousin Boston Globe featuring big takeouts on the topic. The Times piece chronicles the gossip industry’s increasing … Continue reading
Obit o’ the Week (pat. pending)
This one’s a corker (via the New York Times): Huguette Clark, Reclusive Heiress, Dies at 104 She was almost certainly the last link to New York’s Gilded Age, reared in Beaux-Arts splendor in a 121-room Fifth Avenue mansion awash in … Continue reading
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Tagged Huguette Clark, New York Times, Wallace Bock, William Andrews Clark
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Tyler Hicks’ BU COMmencement Address
New York Times photographer, Boston University alum (’92), and recent Libyan kidnapee Tyler Hicks delivered the commencement address Sunday to BU College of Communication grads, and it was the cosmic opposite of Katie Couric’s pert and perky performance at the … Continue reading
An Embarrassment Of Riches (Newt Gingrich Edition)
Today’s New York Times features a Political Memo that puts the accent on Newt Gingrich: All That Glitters May Redefine Run by Gingrich WASHINGTON — To the long list of rich-guy foibles that turned into defining campaign moments — John … Continue reading
NYT Gags On Brit Gag Order
Is it just me or is there something odd about this piece in today’s New York Times: Free Speech on Twitter Faces Test SAN FRANCISCO — What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player … Continue reading
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Tagged British super-injunction, forbes.com, New York Times, the Sunday Herald, Twitter
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LinkedIn Links Don’t Sync
LinkedIn, the adult version of Facebook, went public this week and its IPO was boffo, as the Weekend Wall Street Journal summarized: LinkedIn’s shares more than doubled in their first day of trading, setting the stage for debuts from other … Continue reading
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Tagged buzzworthy, IPO, Joe Nocera, LinkedIn, New York Times, slingstock, Wall Street Journal
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Robert Browning Automatic
Lede of New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott’s review of Woody Allen’s new film, “Midnight in Paris:” The definitive poem in English on the subject of cultural nostalgia may be a short verse by Robert Browning called “Memorabilia.” It … Continue reading
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Tagged A.O. Scott, Memorabilia, Midnight in Paris, New York Times, Robert Browning, SparkNotes, Woody Allen
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His NYT Magazine Column Will Be The Death Of Bill Keller, II
Really, could New York Times executive editor Bill Keller be any more ham-handed? And would he, in his right mind, actually sign off on his own Times Magazine columns? Latest case in point: Keller’s piece for this Sunday’s magazine about … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Keller, New York Times, Poynter, Times Magazine, Twitter, TwitterMakesYouStupid
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