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Tag Archives: WGBH
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Beat The Herald Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight resumed last night, with the Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party webcast featuring this: The Boston Herald’s “Press Party” gives credit to local media for outperforming the national print and TV networks in our half-hour show devoted to … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Totally Beat Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight sort of continued last night as the Boston Herald and WGBH’s Greater Boston broad(web)cast their News Media Hall Monitor shows in the wake of this week’s Marathon bombing. Let’s start, as always, with the Underdog. The … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Spotlight The Globe Edition)
It’s time once again to review the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, especially the rumpus over the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report, Driven to the Edge. Start as usual with the underdog Boston Herald, which has been hounding its crosstown rival all … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (‘Party’ Pooper Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Yesterday our feisty local tabloid celebrated itself and sang its Press Party with a full-page ad. Got that – always smart, no-holds-barred discussions from fresh faces with their news noses on the ground and their fingertips on the pulse of the media machine? Two observations: 1) That has … Continue reading
Globe Can’t Keep Cab Story Straight
The Boston Globe newsroom might want to call a cab-inet meeting sometime soon, because it’s sending mixed messages about the paper’s three-part takeout on the Boston taxicab industry. Start with reporter Bob Hohler, who spent eight nights driving for Boston Cab last … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Miss Da Mayah Edition)
It’s Week Two of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, and the hardworking staff is pleased once again to bring you the details. Start with the Underdog, the Boston Herald’s online Press Party. As always, our feisty local tabloid treats its … Continue reading
Our Inaugural ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff
During the past few days the Boston Herald has been relentlessly flogging its new Press Party webcast, which the hardworking staff guesses is an audition for NECN or Fox 25. Here’s our feisty local tabloid’s “news coverage” of its own … Continue reading
Boston Herald Wants To Beat WGBH’s Beat The Press
Our feisty local tabloid has increasingly increased its video production lately (Exhibit A: High Noon), and yesterday it upped the ante with the introduction of the Boston Herald Press Party on Page 2: Copy: And then there was … Continue reading
Herald Romes Much Farther Than Globe
It’s a rare day – and therefore a noteworthy one – when the Boston Herald devotes more resources to a big story than the Boston Globe does. Welcome to today’s edition of our feisty local tabloid gone global. Note the … Continue reading
‘After I Kind Of Straighten My Tie’
Ever since WGBH (We’ve Gotten Bone Headed) dumped Eric in the Evening, the hardlistening staff has been tuning into TSF, the Paris jazz station we favor in the City of Light Service. Tonight, we heard Nat Cole’s version of “Walkin’ … Continue reading
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