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There are good neighborhood newspapers - and then there is the East Boston Times
By adamg on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 1:26pm
Jimbo says it's not so much the continual typos ("ACADMEMIC AWARDS BANQUET") that get him so much as the near complete lack of any actual reporting in the East Boston Times:
... On the back page is what we've come to expect from the Times: eight static photos of Chamber of Commerce members. (There is also the obligatory photo of politicians on page 1.) This marks 199 weeks in a row we've seen the same faces doing the same things in our local newspaper. The 2000 census said that there are 38,413 people living in East Boston. Not all of them can be found at meetings of the Chamber of Commerce.
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The company that runs the
The company that runs the EBST also runs Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Charlestown, and other area papers. They are all devoid of news, they all use sloppy journalistic devices ("Some people say..."), and while they just love to write up local pols and businesspeople, they all fail their readerships in reporting actual news.
Getting off topic but....
Show of hands, how many people think there are only ~38,000 living in Eastie? I'm thinking there's more like 60k....
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