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Channel 25 also incorrectly linked shooting to Puerto Rican festival

By adamg - 7/29/10 - 10:19 am

With an online headline of "Puerto Rican Festival Turns Violent." Will Channel 25 apologize like the Herald did?

Oopsies: Herald acknowledges weekend shooting had nothing to do with JP Puerto Rican festival

By adamg - 7/28/10 - 5:23 pm

The Herald is apologizing for writing Puerto Rican parade marred by shooting when the Sunday shooting took place a mile away from the parade through JP.

Ed. note: The Herald has changed the story, but you can still see the original headline by looking at the URL (same as you can here when I change a headline).

Globe running out of ideas on how to beat the heat?

By adamg - 7/24/10 - 2:29 pm

As the Outraged Liberal notes, one of the Globe's suggestions for beating the heat today is to go to Wulf's Seafood in Brookline and stand there watching the owner chop up fish.

Remember when local news was actually local?

By adamg - 7/20/10 - 8:59 am

John Carroll reports that three of the stories on WCVB's news at 11 last night actually had absolutely nothing to do with Boston, including one story on a dispute over a billboard "deep in the heart of the Bible Belt."

The "local live coverage you can count on" that 'CVB endlessly flogs is actually "elsewhere canned coverage you could live without."

Ed. note: But give them credit for their extensive coverage of what turned out to be the un-tornado racing down Rte. 2 - to the point where Heather Unruh had to tell "frustrated" Bachelorette fans to stop their whining because tornadoes are a matter of life and death. Well, OK, so she did mistake Harvey Leonard for Pete Bouchard when she asked if size really matters, but really, should reporters be apologizing for reporting breaking news?

Going to housing extremes in today's Globe

By adamg - 7/18/10 - 7:36 am

From a feature on a 736-square-foot house in Dedham to a magazine piece on McMansions, looks like the Globe has all the bases covered today.

John Keith, however, wonders what the big deal is with a 736-square-foot home, noting:

That would be luxury to many of Boston's residents who have to make do with studio and one-bedroom apartments from 300 to 700 square feet – and many do it with partner, baby and/or dog in tow.

Arroyo: Rightwing media out to get me

By adamg - 7/15/10 - 5:23 pm

ArroyoThe not-yet-one-term at-large city councilor is already fundraising for next year's election, with a little help from the Herald. In a fundraising e-mail today, the Arroyo campaign dourly warns:

... Now he is under attack from the right wing media for keeping his promise to us. Their goal is obvious: stop Felix's momentum right now so that he does not win re-election in 2011. ...

The message doesn't specify which rightwing media are attacking him for what, but since Fox News has yet to take notice of Felix Sr.'s son, we're forced to conclude the missive refers to disdainful Herald coverage of his effort to get Boston to boycott businesses in Arizona (in the early edition, the Herald Photoshopped him onto the side of a milk carton because he wouldn't call them back).

Will Patch have every Boston neighborhood covered before boston.com does even one Your Town site in its own city?

By adamg - 7/14/10 - 11:53 pm

The AOL hypermicrominisuperlocal effort is opening up sites for Jamaica Plain and the South End.

Hey, kids, let's go to Ireland!

By adamg - 7/13/10 - 10:57 am

Herald adjacency

Back in the day, newspapers had employees who would check for "adjacencies" like this, because they knew the advertisers would refuse to pay for their ads. Looks like Pat Purcell owes Aer Lingus a do-over.

Tip o' the scally cap to the actual Herald reader who forwarded this.

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