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By adamg - 10/26/06 - 9:59 pm

Gienna readily admits she voted "yes" in our Just what the Globe needs: The return of Mike Barnicle poll. No, she writes, it's not because she doesn't remember all the stuff that got the Old Plagiarizer (and Patricia Smith) fired. It's just that she longs for the day when the Globe had columnists whom she actually looked forward to reading:

... But seriously, when was the last time you read a Globe column that was so good you cut it out of the paper and posted it on the fridge? ...

By adamg - 10/26/06 - 1:43 pm

Mwa-ha-ha!

By adamg - 10/25/06 - 9:06 am

So former GE honcho Jack Welch and local ad honcho Jack Connors might try to buy the Globe - for about half what the New York Times paid for it back in 1999.

By adamg - 10/24/06 - 11:07 pm

The Jamaica Plain Gazette recently upgraded its online presence - it now lets users leave comments on everything it posts (they're using the same software as ye olde Hub).

Via Steve Garfield.

By adamg - 10/24/06 - 10:55 pm

Cranky says he doesn't have anything against gay marriage, but still wonders why recent features in the Globe magazine seem to feature gay couples:

... There is a lot more to worry about in this country, and I'm certainly against any right-wing efforts to amend the constitution to outlaw gay marriage.

By adamg - 10/23/06 - 9:31 am

David Scott chronicles "the rapidly-aging and fastly-fading" Bob Lobel's performance on Sunday night's "Sports Final" - was he really giggling over the way that guy collapsed at the finish line of the Chicago Marathon?

By adamg - 10/21/06 - 10:49 am

Christopher Wright, today's lucky senior editor at Boston Magazine, has started a new blog: Beat Me in an Argument. Imagine that Monty Python argument-room skit all 21st-centuryish (i.e., writen under the influence of some powerful substances):

By adamg - 10/20/06 - 5:18 pm

Michael Gee, late of the Herald, rips into the Globe in general, and Brian McGrory in particular, for the coverage of last night's gubernatorial debate:

"And Grace Ross?" McGrory wrote of the Green party candidate last night. "She seems really nice. But let's step beyond the political correctness and admit that she has none of the support and qualifications that entitle her to a spot on the stage. She's a distraction and she no longer belongs." ...

By adamg - 10/20/06 - 8:51 am

Steve Nadis is shocked to read that, collectively, all those Metros make up the largest newspaper in the world:

... I had no idea and thought it was just a throwaway rag. So I was wrong to say the paper was best used as something to put muddy boots on. Or to wrap fish in. Or to use for cleaning car windshields when you're really hard up. I was wrong. And I'm man enough to admit it.

And I'm man enough to link to my disclosure.

By adamg - 10/17/06 - 7:58 pm

First, let me admit I love "Chronicle." Sure, sometimes it's sort of like watching 30 minutes of Yankee Magazine, but what's wrong with that? Name another news-magazine show that's all about New England.

But, yo, Anthony. Tonight you did this feature-ette on some JP woman whom you kept calling "a volunteer." Anthony, a volunteer is somebody who does something good for humanity, or helps out at her kid's school or works on a political campaign. People shilling for companies that have hired Bzz Agent to market their stuff are not volunteers.

By adamg - 10/17/06 - 9:01 am

Dave Copeland, himself a former knight of the keyboard, says the Globe missed its chance for a great first paragraph on an otherwise boring story about efforts by Amherst to crack down on drunken college students. Buried in the story was:

By Alaiyo - 10/16/06 - 10:37 pm

Well, it's October and the Red Sox are NOT in the post season.
WGBH is in the midst of its Fall Radio Pledge and they are beating the bushes.

Tonight has been up and down. There was a flurry of activity as the Matching Pledge Challenge wound down. We are half way into our 25 call goal for this program.

Eric Jackson has been spinning some great music-right now he is playing something from nice from Shirley Horn.

We have one volunteer who is one of those bordering on obnoxious missionary Caucasoids who work with "minority" children and talk about "saving them" while flaunting their education. This one works for the BELL-a great organization that does great work. A donor called into pledge and she was chatting him up to donate to the foundation, which while technically not terrible was a bit of bad form by my way of thinking, since she was doing the soft press. I cringed at bits because she sounded so condescending when she spoke about the children.

By adamg - 10/16/06 - 10:24 pm

Herald Managing Editor Joe Dwinell checks in from the Quincy Market rotunda, where he files a blog post via the marketplace's free WiFi - and where he learns from a visiting Mayo Clinic physician that the wireless service won't be giving him a brain tumor:

... He has pulled up a seat next to me to blog along. He's also asking about Mitt Romney and how a liberal Massachusetts can elect a Mormon Republican. Checks and balances, I say. ...

By adamg - 10/16/06 - 4:35 pm

Amy will not vote for Kerry Healey, but still finds Brian McGrory's column on her last week, the one in which he wonders what happened to the fun Kerry Healey of old, the one who gleefully drinks raw Coke by the case, insulting:

By adamg - 10/14/06 - 12:44 pm

Dan Kennedy tells us what we know at the moment on the Patrick brother-in-law story: The Herald claims the state started looking into it after the Globe called, but then the Globe didn't think there was a story, so somebody dropped a dime to the Herald, which, of course, felt it was vital for voters to know about something that Patrick had nothing to do with.

The Healey campaign, of course, is just shocked that anybody would think it had anything to do with the affair.

By adamg - 10/13/06 - 2:05 pm

The City of Xebec's Demise remembers:

Channel 56, when it was still Channel 56, would put up a special title card between after-school cartoons every Friday the 13th, showing Fred Flintstone being alarmed by a black cat and wishing us kids a happy Ft13. Even way back then I felt oddly touched that they went through the effort. ...

By adamg - 10/13/06 - 11:04 am

David Scott has the scoop.

By adamg - 10/12/06 - 10:44 am

Writers for both the paper and boston.com are rebelling against a management proposal to tie future ink-stained raises to increasing revenue at the dead-trees edition, but not the pixellated one, because guess where the revenues are going up and where they're going down?

Via Dan Kennedy.

As a Globe freelancer, my raises aren't tied to anything.

By adamg - 10/10/06 - 10:42 pm

Bruce has some advice for former Boston City Councilor David Scondras, now accused of trying to InterWebs-lure a teen (who turned out to be a cop pretending to be a teen) to have sex with him:

There are no 15-year-old boys (or girls, for that matter) surfing the internet, looking for cheap, anonymous sex with 60-year-old men. ...

By adamg - 10/10/06 - 8:22 pm

Pow!Confined to bed and couch last week with a cold, Amy left her TV on channel 7:

... And I was struck with one constant emotion.

I really, really, really hate Matt Lorch.

Not in a personal way, though I think if I knew him he'd bug me. But I really despise his style of anchoring. I hate the way he speaks, I hate his uber-gelled hair, I hate the fact that channel 7 canned Chris May to hire this Lorch fellow. ...

David Pye, meanwhile, confesses his undying, and perhaps unhealthy, love for Liz Walker.

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