Tag Archives: WBUR

Twitter to Campaign Outsider: No Blue Check For You!

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

No man with a good car needs to be justified. – Hazel Motes in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood So the other night the hardhoping staff tried to get our Twitter account verified. According to Twitter’s Help Center, an account must be “notable and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BBC News, blue check, Flannery O'Connor, Hazel Motes, Help Center, Radio Boston, Twitter, WBUR, Wise Blood | Leave a comment

Recycling My 17-Year-Old Boston Globe Piece On . . . Recycling

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Back in 1991, when curbside recycling was still in its infancy, I wrote a Boston Globe Magazine piece with the headline, “I’m Recycling As Fast As I Can (Label Removed).” It wound up with this headline instead. And etc. Seventeen … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BinCam, Bob Oakes, Bora Chhun, Boston Globe Magazine, Daily Mail, Leo Hickman, Lowell, Newcastle University, recycling, The Guardian, WBUR, Yasmin Amer | Leave a comment

Irish Times Sentences Kevin Cullen to . . . One Correction

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Back in April when the whole Kevin Cullen rumpus began, the headscratching staff wondered if the Irish Times would scrutinize its Cullen column that ran in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, a piece that featured unverified details different from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @gmolloy, @suzannelynch1, BBC, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Gary Molloy, Gerry Adams, IRA, Irish Times, Kevin Cullen, Martin Richard, Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, Sean O'Brien, Suzanne Lynch, WBUR | 1 Comment

Skunk at the Prouty Garden Party: Lawsuit Coming Up

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Jim McManus of Slowey/McManus Communications sent out this press release 10 minutes ago: MEDIA ADVISORY Ten Taxpayer Group Announces Lawsuit Against Boston Children’s Hospital, DPH For Immediate Release April 14, 2016 Contact: Jim McManus 617-523-0038; Jim@sloweymcmanus.com WHAT: A Ten Taxpayer … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Globe, Cognoscenti, DPH, Friends of the Prouty Garden, Gregor McGregor, Jim McManus, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Public Health Council, Maura Healey, Prouty Garden, Save the Prouty Garden, Slowey/McManus Communications, Two-Daily Town, WBUR | 1 Comment

The Latest on the Slow-Motion Death of Prouty Garden

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

When last we left the saga of The Inexorable Demolition of Prouty Garden by Boston Children’s Hospital, the beloved green oasis was in limbo, with the hospital planning “to cut down the [garden’s redwood] tree and pull out the garden … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Globe, Cognoscenti, DPH, Friends of the Prouty Garden, Jim McManus, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Public Health Council, Maura Healey, Prouty Garden, Save the Prouty Garden, Slowey/McManus Communications, Two-Daily Town, WBUR | Leave a comment

You Can Kiss the Prouty Garden Goodbye

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town were apparently premature in posting a reader’s comment that Boston Children’s Hospital was already in the process of demolishing the Prouty Garden, which the medical facility wants to replace with a billion-dollar expansion. Premature, … Continue reading →

Should Massachusetts Change Time Zones?

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

From Florida to Alaska, the time might be up for daylight-saving time. Via Arian Campo-Flores’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition piece yesterday : Daylight-Saving Time Gets Old Fed up with the annual routine of moving clocks ahead in spring and back in fall, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arian Campo-Flores, Atlantic Time, Barbara Mende, Cognoscenti, daylight-saving time, DST, Massachusetts, S 2040, Sen. John Keenan, Time Zone Report, Tom Emswiler, US Department of Transportation, Wall Street Journal, WBUR, WBUR Cognoscenti, WCVB | Leave a comment

The Atlantic Says Bay State (Hearts) Charlie Baker

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Snow kidding: The current issue of The Atlantic features this piece by Molly Ball. The Bluest Republican Why staunchly Democratic Massachusetts loves its new GOP governor “Mark Wahlberg is asking me for a pardon?,” Charlie Baker said as he folded … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Weld, boston.com, Charlie Baker, Mark Wahlberg, Martha Chokeley, Martha Coakley, MassLive, MBTA, Michael Dukakis, Mitt Romney, Molly Ball, Paul Cellucci, The Atlantic, Vivien Li, WBUR | 1 Comment

Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Guitar-Gently-Weeping Prince Edition)

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Hard on the heels of the hardtracking staff’s post about the classic guitar duet between George Harrison and Eric Clapton comes this performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – featuring Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison (the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2004 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Inductions, Alex Kingsbury, Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Prince, Radio Boston, Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, WBUR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps | 3 Comments

WBUR Dope Slaps WGBH

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff drove through Allston yesterday, we noticed this billboard over the Mass Pike (sorry, no picture – I was driving, yeah?). No Rant. No Slant. WBUR 90.9 FM Boston’s NPR News Station You know that’s not aimed … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Public Radio, Jim Braude, Margery Eagan, No Rant No Slant, WBUR, WGBH | 2 Comments