Hark! The Herald! (Preview Edition II)

April 1, 2013

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.

 

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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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Page One Herald Ad No Cab-incidence

April 1, 2013

Both local dailies are living in Taxichusetts this week, as the hardworking staff noted yesterday. There’s Driven to the Edge, the Boston Globe’s massive three-part takeout on the Boston taxicab industry, which is the latest in a series of impressive in-depth reports by the stately local broadsheet. And the Boston Herald piped up with this piece yesterday:

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The taxicab and limousine industry has fired another salvo in its war on certain transportation apps by releasing a list of what its members call “rogue” services that endanger the public.

The report by the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association names three applications that operate in the Boston area: on-demand private-driver service Uber and ride-sharing apps SideCar and Tickengo.

“There’s nothing wrong with technology; it just needs to comply with the regulatory structure to ensure that it doesn’t take advantage of the public,” said Alfred LaGasse, the association’s CEO. “Some of these apps are basically 21st century hitchhiking.”

 

Yes, well, speaking of hitchhiking, look who flagged the Herald’s front page today:

 

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Everybody appy now?

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