First off, can any of you remember a day when both local dailies had wraparound front pages? (Can’t find the Globe wrapper, but this interactive feature comes close.)
Us neither.
But Marathon memorial ads mostly migrated to the Globe.
And this one, which we totally don’t like.
The only memorial ad that ran in the Herald (outside of a Macy’s ad that ran in both dailies) was this:
We plugged Peter Emerson O’Neil into the Googletron but nothing came up. Maybe he will now.
P.S. This house ad for the Globe’s Pulitzer probably belongs here too.
The gutsy dancer who lost part of her left leg in the marathon bombings accused “Meet the Press” late yesterday of being “dishonorable” for naming the accused terrorists during a local taping of the Sunday show after she was led to believe they wouldn’t.
Adrianne Haslet-Davis — one of the first survivors of the Boylston Street blasts to go public last year when she vowed “I’ll dance again” in a front-page Herald story — said she was in tears when she walked out on the taping of tomorrow’s “Meet the Press” at the Hyatt Boston Harbor hotel.
“Your decision to back out on that promise you made and the horrific way you brought that decision to my attention just minutes prior to taping was not only a cowardice move but a dishonorable one as well,” Haslet-Davis posted on her website, adriannehaslet-davis.com about the names being used.
(Herald columnist Adriana Cohen was in high dudgeon as well, but that’s her default position.)
Gov. Deval Patrick, with great fanfare, is slated to unveil new, state-of-the art highway message boards for Cape Cod today, even as dozens of similar pricey electronic road signs remain broken statewide, leaving tax- and toll-paying motorists in the dark about everything from traffic accidents and tie-ups to Amber Alerts, a Herald review found.
Among the 184 so-called “variable” message boards statewide, 43 are permanently out of service and cannot be fixed due to a lack of replacement parts, according to a Department of Transportation document obtained by the Herald through a public records request.
There’s even video that goes with:
Classic Herald: Good digging, splashy packaging.
Crosstown at the Boston Globe, Metro Page One:
That report is a follow-up to Adrian Walker’s bombshell yesterday about a “troubling demand” by a coalition of local community activists that Keolis North America, which just got the contract to run Boston’s commuter rail system, do more to promote diversity in its ranks. And by “troubling demand,” of course, Walker means an invoice for $105,000. No word on what the vigorish is, though.
Rev. Bruce Wall, who is moonwalking away from the controversy as fast as he can, is really just collateral damage here. The central figure in this rumpus is longtime local con artist Eugene Rivers III, who met with a Keolis spokeswoman and told her he was “below the radar” and “secret ops.” (Rivers denies saying either.)
Today’s piece has Wall and others in the so-called DRM Advisory Group playing Twister trying to explain away an invoice for services not performed or even contracted. Take some Dramamine before reading.
Rivers, Wall err badly in seeking funds from rail firm
THE REV. Eugene Rivers 3d, a prominent minister in Boston, blundered badly last month when he presented Keolis North America with a $105,000 invoice for services related to promoting diversity in the hiring and ridership of the state’s commuter rail system. This startling document, which was signed by Dorchester minister Bruce Wall, came across as a self-serving pressure tactic, and it only harmed the cause of promoting diversity in public contracting.
And etc.
Classic Boston Globe: good digging, enlightened tut-tutting.
Jared Remy said to use chair, bar of soap in jail fight
Jared Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, allegedly attacked a fellow inmate with a chair and bar of soap during an incident last week that has prompted new charges against him, a law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, had no other details of the alleged assault, including the extent of the other inmate’s injuries.
The aforementioned “law enforcement official” may or may not be from the Middlesex sheriff’s office, which “confirmed [on Friday] that Remy, 35, allegedly attacked another inmate the day before at the Cambridge jail where Remy is awaiting trial on charges of murder in the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, on Aug. 15. However, the sheriff’s office did not specify the type of weapon used in the alleged jailhouse assault.”
Jared Remy used a plastic chair, scalding liquid and a bar of soap to attack a fellow inmate at the Cambridge jail Thursday, court records state.
A criminal complaint filed against the 35-year-old son of NESN Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy and obtained by the Herald yesterday states he will be arraigned April 24 on eight felony counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery.
Remy’s attorney Edward P. Ryan Jr. could not immediately be reached for comment. The complaint does not make clear what circumstances precipitated the fight.
A clear win for the feisty local tabloid in this round of the bake-off.
The long-suffering Boston fooderati have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the storied Wegmans grocery store in Chestnut Hill, and – finally! – it’s here (on April 27).
From Sunday’s Boston Globe:
Not to mention:
Funny, but those ads did not run in the Boston Herald.
As just about everyone in town knows, today’s the Red Sox Home Opener/World’s Serious Shindig. But just in case anyone doesn’t know, NESN ran this ad in the Boston Globe Sports section.
Got that? 11:30, Ring Ceremony commercial-free, and etc.
Know what else was NESN ad-free?
That’s right – The Herald.
That ad was nowhere to be found in today’s edition of the flunky local tabloid.
For the Heraldniks, apparently, NESN stands for Not Even Second Now.
It started at the Oscars with Ellen DeGeneres’s epic picture of celebrities and now it appears David Ortiz himself may be in on the action.
Samsung confirmed that it had helped Ortiz take Tuesday’s selfie with President Obama. The mobile provider then promoted the picture on Twitter to the company’s 5.2 million followers.
Trade publication Sports Business Journal reported on Monday that Ortiz had inked a new endorsement deal with the cellphone provider.
So the president of the United States is just a prop for a cheap marketing stunt, eh? Crosstown, Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley missed the Samsung connection but bought the package.
The president touched on other, more emotional topics as well. He spoke of the victims of the marathon bombings and introduced MBTA police officer Richard Donohue, who was nearly killed during the pursuit of the alleged terrorists. He spoke of Boston firefighters
Michael Kennedy and Edward Walsh, who lost their lives battling last week’s Back Bay inferno. He introduced ailing former Boston mayor Tom Menino and his wife.
The president told us when it was time to be solemn.
David Ortiz told us when it was time to have a little fun.
As the hardreading staff previously noted, last week Herald columnist Margery Eagan went sour on NESN broadcaster Jerry Remy’s return to the booth, and, in an interview on WEEI’s Dennis & Callahan show, Pres. Red Sox Nation returned the flavor, ripping Eagan’s column without naming her. (Neither, oddly, did the Herald in reporting the Remy interview.)
Ding!
Today the Boston Strong Girl is back in the ring, counterpunching with this piece.
Put anger aside, do what’s right, Jerry Remy
They tell me I ticked off Jerry Remy.
Last week I wrote a column asking why Jerry and Phoebe Remy would seek custody of their granddaughter Arianna. Their son is in jail, accused of stabbing Arianna’s mother to death. Remy’s other two children also have a history of arrests for violent attacks.
Questioning his ability to be Arianna’s grandparent made Jerry Remy mad. He went on WEEI with Herald columnist Gerry Callahan and called what I wrote “disgusting.”
Well, I may disgust him again today for asking why he won’t do the right thing by Red Sox Nation and step aside at NESN.
(Fun fact to know and tell: Eagan went to high school in Fall River with Phoebe Remy.)
Eagan concludes with this: “[E]verywhere you look along the long, ugly road that put Jared [in jail], you see Jerry and Phoebe Remy, too. There just can’t be a RemDawg anymore.”
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