East Boston Times: Sorry excuse of a newspaper or what?
By adamg - Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:02am.
Jimbo makes the case. Potential mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty is involved. I'd link to the paper's initial story and the column that has Jimbo upset, but the East Boston Times has kind of a pitiful Web site that is perpetually out of date.
I'm with Mike on this one.
I'm with Mike on this one. The Eastie paper is part of a chain around here and they're all lousy. "Word on the street" is the foundation for half their stories, and the wholesale insertion of opinion into news stories would make writers at a certain tabloid blush.
Some are better than others
Beacon Hill Times has always struck me as a well-written and well-edited paper. The Regional Review (North End), not so much.
And the Dorchester Reporter to rule them all
If only its Web site weren't so plug-ugly.
The GateHouse papers and the South End News also seem to do a good job and the Bulletin papers do a decent job and are kind of an interesting story in the way they grew from the weekly in Norwood to covering half of Boston.
The North End Paper...
Is one of those things that's so bad it's good. Kinda like "The Evil Dead."
what are we reading about?
Imagine sitting around reading about people complaining about bad news papers. Maybe instead of complaining about bad news papers like us, why don't we write about something interesting. Kind of like writing something interesting that someone would want to read in the East Boston paper. Imagine that! Maybe we would get a job writing for the paper. Now that's interesting.
A bit of history
Just what I wanted to read today -- the news from June 18.