Back page of today’s Boston Globe A section:
See that down at the bottom? The media sponsors?
So you’d think the ad ran in the Boston Herald today too, right?
Wrong.
Then again, we’re guessing the mayor’s people have either a) gotten an earful from the Heraldniks, or b) already reserved a full page in tomorrow’s edition of the frosty local tabloid.
Season’s Gratings!
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After the hardreading staff wrote about the Boston Herald’s new columnist/radio co-host Adriana Cohen earlier this week, a sharp-eyed commenter sent us this:
The Herald promo made her sound like Mary McGrory, but I’ve never heard of her. Then I clicked on her own bio and it says she’s a fundraiser for Scott Brown and sits on Charlie Baker’s finance committee.
Is that current information, or did she have to step down from that post once she got the column?
Well, it’s certainly current on Cohen’s website (although the Scott Brown fundraising seems to be in the past tense).
We’ve sent an email to the Baker campaign to clarify the matter. We hope.
We’ll keep you posted.
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Today’s Boston daily double features a rarity: The Boston Globe front-pages what should have been the Boston Herald’s Page One.
First, here’s what the feisty local tabloid actually ran:
That’s fine – gotta do the Pats when it’s Monday Night Football and Coakley’s jumping on the junkets is good (and it beat the Globe). But the Health-Connector-Is-Worse-Than-Obamacare story is thrice-told news at this point. It doesn’t really merit another front page hit.
Crosstown, the Globe’s Page One has the story the Herald should have had.
Boston police officers wary of GPS for cruisers
Fear too much scrutiny of police under city’s plan
The pending use of GPS tracking devices, slated to be installed in Boston police cruisers, has many officers worried that commanders will monitor their every move while supervisors insist the system will improve their response to emergencies.
The change, a result of contract negotiations between the city and the patrol officers union, puts Boston in league with small-town departments across the state and big-city agencies across the country that have installed global positioning systems in cruisers.
Boston police administrators say the system gives dispatchers the ability to see where officers are, rather than wait for a radio response. Using GPS, they say, accelerates their response to a call for a shooting or an armed robbery.
Just think how that translates to the Herald’s front page, all donuts and dozing off. Can’t you see it?
Well, there’s always tomorrow.
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The feisty local tabloid’s real-estate crusade continues today, with two full pages dedicated to ripping the lid off Mayor Tom Menino and his Boston Redevelopment Authority marionettes.
Of special note is this whack at one BRA member in particular (if you guessed that he has union ties, vote yourself a special treat).
BRA defends decision to OK Monahan vote
Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s newest appointee to the BRA board failed to recuse himself when the panel voted to approve a massive downtown development project largely funded by his union’s national pension fund.
Boston Redevelopment Authority officials yesterday defended union boss Michael Monahan’s vote to OK the Government Center Garage development plan,
which won unanimous approval at the board’s Thursday meeting.
Monahan is the business manager of the 7,000-member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 and a trustee of its pension fund, one of the largest contributors to the National Electrical Benefit Fund. The national fund is a big financial backer of the project.
Right. More shenanigans on the development front.
And no doubt developing . . .
Postscript from our JohnHenryGlobeWatch: Today’s edition of our stately local broadsheet did cover that Yawkey Way sweetheart deal the Herald covered yesterday. So, move along, move along – no conspiracies to see here.
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The Boston Herald is on a real-estate BRAmpage lately, starting with Wednesday’s hounding of Terrier-in-waiting Tom Menino over possible conflicts of interest between the outgoing mayor’s new gig at Boston University and the Boston Redevelopment Authority, 80% of which is appointed by the mayor.
Today the feisty local tabloid is still beating the Tom-toms.
Inside, the Herald calls the roll of tax-dodging prime downtown properties.
But wait! There’s more – a new skirmish outside Fenway Park.
BRA sued over no-bid deal with Sox on Yawkey Way
A sweetheart land and air rights deal between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Red Sox is now being attacked in court.
Everett businessman and attorney Joseph Marchese is suing the BRA over the recent $7.3 million agreement that awarded the Red Sox air rights for Green Monster seats over Lansdowne Street and an easement to shut down part of Yawkey Way for concessions so long as the team plays at Fenway Park.
Marchese said he had approached the BRA in May with his own offer to operate concessions on Yawkey Way under a proposed $3 million, 10-year deal, but the BRA never put the rights out for public bid.
“What we’re asking the court to determine is whether or not that contract should have been put out to bid,” Marchese said. A former restaurant owner, Marchese said he wanted to partner with local businesses to offer food on Yawkey Way in a “taste of Boston” atmosphere.
Then again, the sweetheart deal is a taste of Boston, isn’t it?
Postscript from our JohnHenryGlobeWatch: Nothing about the Fenway rumpus in the Red-Sox-owner-Henry-owned Boston Globe today. No big conspiracy theory. That comes tomorrow.
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Among the many Battle of the Bulger subsidiaries is this one from Michael McLean, son of James J. “Buddy McLean.
Via Amazon:
The Irish King of Winter Hill: The True Story of James J. “Buddy” McLean
The Irish King of Winter Hill is the story of the rise and fall James J. “Buddy” McLean, from his humble beginnings as a hardworking
truck driver in Boston, to leading the original and now infamous Winter Hill Gang, to his untimely murder in 1965. He will best be remembered for eliminating the McLaughlin Gang from Charlestown during the 1960s McLean-McLaughlin Irish gang war. Buddy, who worked on the Boston docks in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his father’s union card, was also a teamster from Local No. 25. This was a time when gangsters ran the docks. This story is written by Michael McLean, who says, “I have read all the books and the information on the Internet about my father, and most of it is wrong. After talking to his closest friends, I decided I would set the record straight.”
And run ads in the local dailies.
From the Boston Globe:
Close-up:
From the Boston Herald:
Close-up:
Like we said: Equal-opportunity opportunist.
And we mean that in the most positive sense.
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The hardreading staff used to make our living in the ad racket, and as such we routinely attended (while Dr. Ads covered) the New England Ad Club Hatch Awards, that annual – and costly – celebration of ourselves.
Sample coverage:
No surprise we weren’t invited back for this year’s festivities, but fortunately yesterday’s Boston Globe featured a full-page ad highlighting the winners.
And the Boston Herald did not.
Just sayin’.
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Whitey Bulger is going away for whatever’s left of his miserable life, and no one’s going to miss him more than Boston Herald scribe Howie Carr.
Exhibit Umpteen:
This stuff is pasteurized processed American Carr, the Velveeta of reporting. Today’s slice tastes just like they all do.
In Whitey Bulger’s crosshairs
Columnist recalls terrifying days of looking over his shoulder
Whitey Bulger, you wanted to kill me, but I’m still alive.
And you’re dead. You’re not going to last long in a real prison, you bully, you coward.
I heard you’ve told some of the guards down at Plymouth you would have killed me for sure but you were concerned about blowback on your brother, who by the way didn’t show up one single day at your trial.
Hell, Whitey himself barely showed up for it. No way Billy was going to.
And now Carr’s going have to find some new targets for his drive-bys.
Something tells us he won’t look very far.
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Tonight C-SPAN debuts the latest installment in its First Ladies series: Jacqueline Kennedy. And both local dailies ran ads today promoting the program.
Boston Globe:
Boston Herald:
But go back to the Globe and you’ll also find this:
Note the time: 9 pm for both programs. And note that PBS apparently thinks Herald readers don’t watch public broadcasting. Wonder what gave PBS that idea?
P.S. To prep for the JFK premiere, check out Adam Clymer’s Page One piece in today’s New York Times.
Textbooks Reassess Kennedy, Putting Camelot Under Siege
WASHINGTON — The President John F. Kennedy students learn about today is not their grandparents’ J.F.K.
In a high school textbook written by John M. Blum in 1968, Kennedy was a tragic hero, cut down too soon in a transformative presidency, who in his mere 1,000 days in office “revived the idea of America as a young, questing, progressive land, facing the future with confidence and hope.”
By the mid-’80s, that heady excitement was a distant memory, and Kennedy a diminished one. A textbook written in 1987 by James A. Henretta and several colleagues complained of gauzy “mythologizing” about his tenure and said the high hopes he generated produced only “rather meager legislative accomplishments.”
Ouch. Maybe the PBS show will teach us something new.
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So the hardreading staff was perusing the Sunday Boston Herald when we went over The Edge.
Wait – is Lady Gaga holding what we think she is?
Whoa – file that under frisky local tabloid.
No comments attached to the, er, piece yet. But it’s still early in the day.
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It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 