The Yin and Yang of the Globe and Herald (Hillary’$ World Edition)

August 19, 2014

When the Hillary Clinton Rock Star Diva story broke yesterday, the hardreading staff knew it would be mother’s milk to the feisty local tabloid. And today’s Boston Herald did not disappoint.

 

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Inside, readers were treated to two Whack-a-Hill columns  –  one from Kimberly Atkins, the other from the inexplicable Adriana Cohen.

 

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(Note the rare double Little Green Number that Clinton rates.)

Crosstown, today’s Boston Globe said nothing about Queen Hillary, not even in Tom Keane’s Hillary is inevitable no longer op-ed. (The paper does have a News Brief: Clinton to attend key Iowa fundraiser. No mention of how she’ll get to Indianoloa.)

In a Weekly Standard piece this week (Hillary Clinton’s Reputation), Jay Cost says “it’s better than you think” and reminds us that “what matters in the Beltway does not necessarily play in Peoria.”

That goes the other way around, too. Case in point: Queen Hillary didn’t make today’s New York Times, either. But stay tuned – Maureen Dowd is up tomorrow.


Boston Globe Ad-vantage: Hillary and Hamas

July 23, 2014

From our Ad Hoc desk

Interesting confluence of ads in the Boston Globe today.

On page A6:

 

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And before you say, “Really, Hillary? Sam’s Club? Seekonk?” you should remember that Walmart/Sam’s Club sells a helluva lot of books every year.

Plus, it seems fitting that Madame Former Secretary should share an edition of the Globe with this ad (back page of the A section):

 

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Drive-’em-nuts graf:

 

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You’ll find the website for the alphabet-soup coalition here. The hardwatching staff will be interested to see if there’s a pro-Palestinian/anti-Israeli rejoinder in the stately local broadsheet tomorrow.

Meanwhile, crosstown at the Herald, ads (but not the two above) occupy roughly three of today’s first 30 pages. That’s hardly enough scratch to pay the Boston Herald Radio gerbils.

(To be sure graf comes next.)

To be sure, it’s mid-week mid-summer, but, man, they gotta be feeling some ad nauseum at the the thirsty local tabloid.


That’s Just So Mean! (Hillary Clinton Edition Umpteen)

April 11, 2014

From today’s footsy local tabloid:

 

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Ouch.