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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal Wants Boston Herald Readers
Full disclosure: The hardworking staff is one of the 17 home subscribers to the Boston Herald. As such, we received a letter yesterday from the Wall Street Journal (which the Missus subscribes to, she being much smarter than we are) … Continue reading
Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day 4
The Schadenfreude Gazette is so desperate for new ways every day to bash the Globe over its impending sale, the feisty local tabloid is willfully ignoring reality just to get in some cheap shots. Today’s case in point (no idea why … Continue reading
Boston Globe Herald Hostage, Day Three (Volume Two)
The print edition of The Schadenfreude Gazette has arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Two-Daily Town, so here’s a better look at today’s offerings: The hardreading staff previously noted the feature story. A taste of the others . . . Read … Continue reading
The New ‘New Republic’ (Marty Peretz Hates It Edition)
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, former owner/editor-in-chief of The New Republic Martin Peretz sandblasted the refurbished edition now being published by new owner (and juice-box Facebook co-founder) Chris Hughes. The first edition of The New New Republic was fat – 68 … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (2012 BoSox Edition)
From the redoubtable Jason Gay’s latest column in the Wall Street Journal: The Loopy Mess of LakerFail The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Miami Heat on Sunday. This is not wildly important. What’s important is that the Lakers continue … Continue reading
Snow Kidding! New York Dailies In Storm Coverage Photo Finish
What are the odds that three of the four Big Town dailies would feature the same Page One photo in their coverage of this weekend’s big storm? Pretty good, as the Poynter website reported yesterday: Same photo appears on front pages of … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Five-Daily Town (R.I.P. Ed Koch Edition)
The New York dailies went all in on the passing of legendary mayor Ed Koch. Page One tributes (all via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages). Newsday: Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Five-Daily Town (the latest … Continue reading
Curses! No More Cursive!!
From our Late to the Party desk First, full disclosure: The hardwriting staff’s penmanship is a total mess, thanks to filling out thousands of Social Security Administration forms in the mid-’70s to get welfare recipients off the hook for overpayments … Continue reading
Gilbert And Sullivan’s Wilde Ride
From our Annals of History desk In the late 19th Century, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were entertainment superstars, having written such boffo light operas as H.M.S. Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance, both of which were hits not only in England but America as well. … Continue reading
Has The New York Times Moved To No-Jump Street?
Several years ago the Wall Street Journal instituted a no-jumps policy, as noted quite bitterly by the Columbia Journalism Review: The WSJ and the Limits of a “No Jumps” Policy Dumbing down and devaluing The Wall Street Journal We’ve talked quite a … Continue reading
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