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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
Harry Houdini And The Boston 1600-Pound Sea Monster
Houdini: Art & Magic at New York’s Jewish Museum was pretty much panned in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal review: [T]he exhibition, whose dramatic presentation at times upstages Houdini’s magical effects, falls somewhat flat. The artistry of one of the greatest … Continue reading
WSJ Gives Boston Tea Party Props
Apparently, there have been two Boston Tea Parties. Who knew? The first, of course, was the 1773 rumpus featuring Massachusetts colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor to protest extortionist taxation by their British overlords. The second, this weekend’s Wall Street Journal … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Tea Party, Dominic Sandbrook, Louise Day Hicks, Mad As Hell, Wall Street Journal
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Hooked On iPhonecs
Two high-profile/high-tech hall monitors have weighed in on the much-awaited Verizon iPhone, and as Johnny Most (rest his soul) liked to say, “It’s good!!!” From New York Times gadget guru David Pogue’s review: It’s here. After almost four years of … Continue reading
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Tagged AT&T, David Pogue, iPhone, Johnny Most, Motorola Droid, New York Times, Verizon, Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg
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Ada Louise Huxtable: MFA’s American Wing Fails To Take Flight
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal devoted a full page of its Leisure & Arts section to the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. And – no surprise here – the paper’s dual reviews featured dueling ledes. … Continue reading
WSJ Goes Postal
Excellent charticle on the U.S. Postal Service in the Wall Street Journal’s This Week wrap: Among the high/lowlights: • The USPS now handles about 150 billion pieces of mail a year vs. 200+ billion per annum in 2005-2007 • Post … Continue reading
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Tagged charticle, Harry S. Truman, high/lowlights, Rock Hudson, The Week, U.S. Postal Service, Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney
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Labor Unions The Fall Guys In Central Falls, R.I. Fall
Remember the Rhode Island city that fired the entire staff at its high school last year, only to hire them back several months later? That was Central Falls, the subject of a current Wall Street Journal Cross Country column: ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Falls R.I., Cross Country, labor unions, Wall Street Journal
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Keith Olbermann Is A Serious Twit(terer)
Deposed MSNBC anchor Keith Oldnewsmann – sorry, Olbermann – has taken to Twitter to lick his wounds. From the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog: After Conan O’Brien left NBC he turned to Twitter to build a fresh fanbase and keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Bret Stephens, Keith Olbermann, Keith Oldnewsmann, Olbermannly, Speakeasy, Twit(terer), Wall Street Journal
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FCC Decision Only Comcastic For Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday to approve the merger of broadband Internet/cable service provider Comcast and NBC Universal, which owns 234 local TV stations, the NBC network, Universal movie studio, Universal theme parks, Telemundo, and cable nets MSNBC, … Continue reading
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Tagged Comcast, Disney, FCC, Huffington Post, NBC Universal, News Corp, Time Warner, Wall Street Journal
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The Tragedy After Tucson
The hardworking staff hasn’t read everything in the wake of the Arizona shootings that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head, but we’ve seen enough media coverage to form a few conclusions. 1) … Continue reading
More Non-Disclosure By NYT Public Editor
Turns out New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane omitted more than one relevant fact in his latest column. As the hardworking staff noted earlier, Brisbane wrote this in his piece about the challenges the paper faces in a … Continue reading
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