The hardreading staff is pleased to announce that for once the stately local broadsheet had no ad-vantage over the feisty local tabloid.
From yesterday’s Boston Globe page 3.
From yesterday’s Boston Herald page 3.
Cheers!
Boston Dailies Both at Top of the Hub
January 5, 2015
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The Two Faces of Deval
January 5, 2015The Boston Sunday Globe featured Michael Levenson’s swan song for two-term Gov. Deval Patrick.
The Patrick legacy: history and headwinds
Governor made good on much he’d promised, but fractious ties with legislators, and economy’s plunge, held him back
Deval Patrick looked out on Boston Common, presiding not only as the incoming governor but as the leader of a movement that had upended politics. Thousands from across the state cheered and held up cellphone cameras — people of every kind and color, young and old, jubilant multitudes never before seen at the State House.
At his first inauguration under uncommonly fair skies in January 2007, the man who a year earlier had been dismissed as a hopeless romantic with no chance of victory carried with him limitless hope for the future — for better schools, fairer housing, racial healing.
And etc.
Nice sendoff, except . . .
Exhibit Umpteen, from Saturday’s Boston Herald report about Patrick “denying [chairwoman of the Sex Offender Registry Board Saundra Edwards’] claims he had a personal ax to grind in firing her after he said she ‘inappropriately’ tried pressuring an official to classify the governor’s brother-in-law as a sex offender.”
“Your paper has done a whole lot to make a mess of his life,” he said, turning to a Herald reporter yesterday. “That’s certainly been on my mind. I didn’t want to stir all that up again. But we cannot have officials inappropriately interfering with the independence of hearing officers.”
But he doesn’t want to stir all that up again.
Ave atque vale, Deval.
Ye harldy knew us.
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Boston Dailies Outsourced Mario Cuomo Obits
January 3, 2015From our Late to the Late Mario Cuomo desk
Mario Cuomo spoke in poetry, but lived in prose.
Exhibit A: His Hamlet on the Hudson forever fluttering.
Maybe that’s why the local dailies didn’t bother to compose their own obituaries of the former New York governor, but cherry-picked them from other news outlets.
The Boston Globe, on the one hand, plunked the New York Times obit on its front page.
The Boston Herald, on the other hand, plucked the Associated Press.
Hey – that’s show biz.
(To be fair, today’s Globe has this laudatory editorial and this less-so column by Michael A. Cohen. The Herald has this farewell from Ray Flynn.)
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Boston Dailies Swimsuit Edition!
January 3, 2015From our Late to the Pool Party desk
While the hardreading staff noted the degrees of difference in yesterday’s local coverage of the traditional Southie Polar Bear Plunge, we regrettably failed to note the swimsuit disparities between the two Boston dailies.
Boston Globe:
Boston Herald:
One town, two different whirls, eh?
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Boston Dailies Can’t Even Agree on Temperature
January 2, 2015As the hardreading staff has often noted, the local dailies have created One Town, Two Different Worlds more days than not.
But . . . One Town, Two Different Thermometers?
Boston Herald Page One:
Boston Globe Page One:
Not to get technical about it, but . . .
Right – it’s not just the air temperature they differed on, it was the water temp too.
Frosty local tabloid again:
Brrave bunch!
Hundreds of L Street Brownies braved the bitter cold to take the traditional Southie Polar Bear Plunge on
New Year’s Day.
“It was warmer in the water because the air temp was down to the teens with the wind chill,” said Freddy Ahern, coordinator for the BCYF Curley Community Center. The water was a balmy 37 degrees.
Happy New Year to all! Keep up the good work.
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Hark! The Herald! (Tsarnaev Defense Edition)
December 30, 2014Today’s edition of the selfie local tabloid once again demonstrates its Heraldcentric theory of the universe, as it reports that the trial of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is all about, well, the Boston Herald.
Lawyers blast feds over Herald column
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have again asked a judge to postpone his trial, challenging
prosecutors’ claims about their preparation process and slamming a Herald column that criticized the defense’s repeated efforts to seek delays.
In the motion filed yesterday, Tsarnaev’s legal team disputes the government claim that they have refused to stipulate to any evidence — an acknowledgement that would preclude bringing in officials to testify about how it was acquired and handled.
The Herald column in question? This one:
According to today’s report, “[t]he defense motion cites Herald reporter Bob McGovern’s Dec. 26 Full Court Press column, which referred to the defense’s ‘foot-dragging’ and ‘stall tactics’ as an example.”
Jackpot!
As you might expect, crosstown at the Boston Globe there’s nary a word about foot-dragging or stalling or stipulating . . . or the Herald.
Tsarnaev defense renews pitch to delay trial
Says prosecutors sent thousands of documents late
Attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev renewed their push Monday to delay his death penalty trial, set to start in one week, until the fall.
In papers filed in US District Court, the attorneys for the 21-year-old, who is accused of detonating two bombs at the 2013 Marathon finish line along with his late brother, Tamerlan, said the government has handed over thousands of documents to them at the last moment.
As a result, the attorneys wrote, there is no way they can be ready to defend Tsarnaev both during the trial, and if he is convicted, during the penalty phase, where jurors will be asked to decide whether the former Cambridge resident deserves the death penalty.
One town, two different trials, eh?
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New Balance Balances Local Dailies in ‘Heroes’ Ad
December 30, 2014From our Late to the Parity desk
Local shoemaker New Balance yesterday saluted “each and every police officer, firefighter, first responder and service man & woman” in this full-page ad that ran in both – say it again, both – Boston dailies.
Truth to tell, the ad also ran in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
But as the Heraldnix might say, why get technical about it.
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Globe Completes Defenestration of Bryon Hefner
December 23, 2014The coup de grâce came, fittingly, on Page One of today’s Boston Globe.
State senator’s partner to leave his PR job
Blames Globe for departure
In a sudden shift from an announcement over the weekend, the domestic partner of presumptive Senate president Stanley C. Rosenberg abruptly resigned Monday from his position at a politically connected Boston communications firm.
Bryon Hefner, in an e-mailed statement to the Globe, blamed the newspaper for driving him out of his job working as a public relations staff member for Regan Communications.
Late Saturday the Regan firm, which offers potential clients Beacon Hill connections and help with lobbying, had said it was reassigning Hefner from its Boston headquarters to its Florida office.
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Hefner, who has been absolutely sandblasted by the stately local broadsheet for the past three weeks, wrote in his email to the paper, “The Boston Globe has rejected my transfer to Florida, identifying it as ‘not being far enough away’ if I am still in a relationship with my partner of over six years . . . The Boston Globe has forced me, just days before Christmas, to choose between my personal and professional life.’’
Globe reporter Frank Phillips, who (along with Jim O’Sullivan) has played Javert to Hefner’s Jean Valjean, wrote this in response:
It was not immediately clear what Hefner was referring to when he wrote that the newspaper had “rejected” the Florida move. Neither Hefner nor Rosenberg responded to requests for comment.
Not immediately clear? Probably never gonna be clear – because it’s most likely some crybaby concoction from a kid who got too big for his britches, as my old man used to say. (Here’s the Globe story on Regan’s dispatching of Hefner to Florida. No hint of it “not being far enough away,” so it’s still not clear where Hefner’s quotation marks came from. Unless the Globe is holding out on us.)
Regardless: Bryon, we hardly knew ye. But that was more than enough for most.
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New School of Advertising: UMass Boston(Globe)
December 18, 2014As we’ve previously noted, the Boston Globe has been rather – how shall we put it? – ad-aptable lately with UMass, from a special supplement masquerading as editorial content to, most notably, the pimping out of the Globe banner last month.
A splendid reader now sends this to the tsktsking staff:
[H]ave you noticed recently the UMass-Branded Business section in the Globe? I know they’re doing a lot (a lot!) of advertising in the Globe, but the UMass logo placement next to the “Business” banner on the front page of the new section makes it seem almost like a paid advertising section. I saw it there yesterday, and again today. I believe 2-3 times more in the last 10 days.
Here’s the one from today:
The splendid reader is correct: The bug also appeared in yesterday’s edition, as well as last Wednesday through Friday. Oddly, on none of those days did UMass run an actual, old-fashioned ad.
And the splendid reader is likewise correct that the bug makes the Globe’s Business section look like a partly owned subsidiary of the Massachusetts higher ed system.
In fairness, though, the Boston Herald looks like a totally owned subsidiary of Suffolk University. So maybe this is just Business as usual.
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Globe Runs Five-Ring Circles Around Herald
December 17, 2014From our One Town, Two Different Worlds desk
The Yes Boston Olympics group (not its real name) made its 2024 Summer Games pitch to the US Olympic Committee yesterday and got very different receptions in the local dailies.
Boston Globe Page One:
Boston still in hunt for 2024 Summer Olympics
US panel votes to submit bid for Summer Games, will select from field of four cities next month
The US Olympic Committee’s board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday to submit a bid for the 2024
Summer Games and next month will choose one candidate from among Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., to join what is expected to be a crowded international field.
The committee gave no indication of a favorite among the four cities. USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun said the contenders were in “a four-way tie.’’
Boston mayor Marty Walsh added that “it shows you that this puts Boston on a stage. Whether or not we get the Olympics, to be able to be in the same conversation with other cities around I think says an awful lot about the strength of the city of Boston.”
Or its business community anyway.
Crosstown at the Boston Herald, the bid got significantly less play. Like page 21 play.
Can we made Dirt Digging an official Olympic event? That’ll jumpstart the fizzy local tabloid, eh?
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It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 