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Tag Archives: New York Times
Teen Texting + Sexting=Perplexing
Man, I’d hate to be a teenager today. From Sunday’s Boston Globe front page: Connected, exhausted Texting teenagers who stay ‘on call’ all night pay the price in lost sleep Brookline 10th-grader Ashley Olafsson sleeps with her cellphone under her … Continue reading
Joe Nocera’s NYT Business Page Swan Song
Nice farewell piece by business columnist Joe Nocera in Saturday’s New York Times: In Prison for Taking a Liar Loan A few weeks ago, when the Justice Department decided not to prosecuteAngelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of Countrywide, I wrote a … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Mozilo, Charlie Engle, Countrywide, Joe Nocera, New York Times
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Boston Restaurateur Goes To Bat For Exotic Food
From Tuesday’s New York Times Frequent Flier feature: A Restaurant Owner Bites Into Something Foul, Dark and Winged By Ken Oringer, as told to Joan Raymond That would be Boston restaurant owner Ken Oringer, whose eateries include Clio, Uni, Toro, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clio, Frequent Flier, Ken Oringer, KO Prime, La Verdad, New York Times, Toro, Uni
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Who Is Lori K?
Splendid readers: As the hardworking staff noted earlier, Lori K from Boston stood up to the New York Times paywall naysayers regarding the paper’s new metered system for its Web site. So can we get a witness to who Lori … Continue reading
NYT Shoutout To ‘Lori K From Boston’
The New York Times has finally (see Public Editor Arthur Brisbane’s critique here) gotten around to covering its impending Web site paywall. Friday Page One: Times Rolls Out Its Pay Design For Web Users The New York Times introduced a plan on … Continue reading
Tea Party Is Mad As A Hatter
The Tea Party, which is to political movements what plaid is to Bermuda shorts, has a Tea-bag trifecta underway in Utah. From Tuesday’s dead-tree New York Times: 3 Leading Mormon Politicians Feel Heat From Tea Party at Home in Utah … Continue reading
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Tagged Dyson Ball, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Orrin Hatch, STAR Forum, Tea Party, Utah, Utah Rising
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Acid Test (Owsley Stanley Obit Division)
Owsley “Bear” Stanley, legendary LSDealer to the counterculture stars of the 1960s, died on Sunday at age 76. Depending on which obituary you read, Stanley “was a prolific LSD producer” or “made and supplied the LSD that fueled acid rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatles, Boston Globe, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey, LSD, LSDealer, New York Times, Owsley Stanley, Wall Street Journal
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NYT Writer Throws In The Towel
Sunday’s New York Times Week in Review section featured a piece by Elisabeth Rosenthal headlined “Green Development? Not in My (Liberal) Backyard.” Rosenthal addresses the anomaly/hypocrisy of eco-advocates who favor environmentally friendly initiatives such as bike paths or wind turbines, … Continue reading
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Tagged bike path, BRT, Cape Wind, Elisabeth Rosenthal, green development, New York Times, NINBYism, Park Slope, Week in Review
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His NYT Magazine Column Will Be The Death Of Bill Keller
Consensus among the hardworking staff: New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who’s apparently suffering from Mort Zuckerman Syndrome (pat. pending), should not be writing for his own paper. Or any other, for that matter. The new, attitudinal Keller emerged in … Continue reading
A Shirttail Of Two Cities
Double-truck ad in Wednesday’s New York Times: Via MarketWire: Jones New York, a division of The Jones Group Inc. (NYSE: JNY), today unveils the next phase of the Empowering Your Confidence campaign, celebrating over 40 years of dressing women for success in … Continue reading
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