From our Walt Whitman desk
The Boston Herald’s relentless self-promotion braved new frontiers with this Joe Battenfeld piece in Wednesday’s edition:
Apparently, the ladder of success at our feisty local tabloid is actually an escalator.
Exhibit A:
Web panelist to U.S. Senate debate moderator in two weeks?
Jaclyn Cashman has unsuspected depth, eh?
Or maybe just undetected deep pockets.
See also: NECN’s late, unlamented The Open Book Club for further details.
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From our Walt Whitman desk
As the hardreading staff predicted, the Boston Herald is feeling festive in today’s edition over yesterday’s Top Ten Front Pages coup in the Newseum’s daily bakeoff.
Putting on the pompoms:
Ready for its close-up:
Imagine the coverage if our feisty local tabloid ever won a real award!
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From our Walt Whitman desk
The Boston Herald will be doing some celebrating itself and singing itself tomorrow, thanks to a return trip to The Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages hit parade.
Opening Week
Look no further than today’s front pages to find out what time it is. Fields of dreams, players in action and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s reliable weatherbird all provide the answer. For most papers, play ball means baseball. For the Press-Citizen, it means golf. The Daily Journal stands out not only for its baseball-themed nameplate, but for a cover story and graphic on growing old in prison.
Note that both New York tabloids were hits, which is more than the Yankees can say about their home opener. Can’t wait to see the Big Town tabs tomorrow.
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From our Walt Whitman desk
As the hardreading staff predicted just hours ago, our feisty local tabloid is trumpeting its latest, if littlest, award: Making the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages list.
Today’s Boston Herald, page 4:
And the victory dance:
In the end, Crimson Pride goes hand-in-hand with Herald Pride. Ain’t self-love grand.
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From our Walt Whitman desk
You’ll very likely see the Boston Herald celebrating itself and singing itself once again in its Saturday edition, thanks to this:
That’s right – our feisty local tabloid has made the Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages list, this time compliments of Friday’s Page One:
Consequently, look for a Look at Us! feature coming soon to a tabloid near you.
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Walt (“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”) Whitman would love the Boston Herald today.
The feisty local tabloid devotes Page One to . . . itself!
Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages:
Inside there’s a big takeout on unemployment reform:
Labor boss pledges to close jobless benefits loopholes
The state labor chief — caught off-guard last spring by a series of Herald exposes that showed retired cops, vacationing teachers, election officials and others pocketing unemployment pay — is vowing to close loopholes and push a new law to stop city and town workers from “gaming the system.”
“To taxpayers, we have a message that we hear your concerns. We share that you should be paying only (unemployment) costs for those individuals who are entitled to it,” state labor secretary Joanne Goldstein told the Herald yesterday.
And there’s also this priceless paragraph:
“We appreciate the Herald bringing this to our attention so that we can look at the whole system … to lower (unemployment) costs for municipalities,” Goldstein said. “It’s a good example of the power of the press to the extent that you were able to raise awareness of this issue.”
But wait – there’s more: A handy clip ‘n’ save chart/timeline:
Somewhere beyond the grave, Walt is smiling.
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