Boston Globe
You'd think a man accused of crimes against humanity would have more to worry about than what the Boston Globe writes
By adamg - 1/26/12 - 12:32 pmDan Kennedy gives us an overview of the Globe retraction of its story that former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor - who sparked three civil wars (one of them in a neighboring country) - worked for the CIA. The retraction apparently hasn't been enough to keep the former Bentley student and one-time guest of the Commonwealth (MCI Plymouth, before he escaped) from taking time out from his busy schedule of defending himself before a special UN court on charges of rape, murder and other war crimes.
Oh, H-E-double-hockey-sticks
By adamg - 1/23/12 - 1:00 pmSerious pearl clutching going on in Boston media circles today. In the Globe, one mother frets about her kids using the word "butt." In the Boston Business Journal, one father frets that his sons are now going to exclaim "suck" all the time now that they heard Tom Brady use the verb in his post-game interview:
Come on, Tom. You're better than that. For the rest of the evening my boys were going on about how Tom Brady sucked today. A bit disappointing, considering how Brady is usually a stellar role model and manages to set a great example and say all the right things. I guess I'll give him a pass on this one, surely he was caught up in the moment and was disappointed in his less than great game.
Go get 'em in the Super Bowl Tom, but remember it's not all about you.
H/t Amy Derjue for reading the Globe op-ed pages so I don't have to.
The Globe and the kissing sex offender
By adamg - 1/18/12 - 8:00 amA Globe story about love among the occupods left out an interesting fact about the guy shown kissing his girl at Dewey Square. The Herald helpfully reveals the fact that the guy is a Level 3 sex offender - although not the one who's caused a ruckus at Occupy Boston meetings of late.
No more Chicopee Herald
By adamg - 1/8/12 - 2:56 pmThe Teamsters have signed off on a plan under which dogs will lie down with cats the Globe will print a bunch of copies of the Herald and 50 union members will lose their jobs. Presumably, the deal, which means savings for the Herald and new income for the Globe, also means freak snowstorms will no longer stop the Herald presses, or if they do, the Globe will pick up the slack.
Verizon software didn't screw Massachusetts towns, Verizon employees did
By adamg - 12/17/11 - 1:04 pmA story in the Globe today has the following headline and sub-headline:
Verizon to pay $800,000 settlement
Phone company says cities, towns were overcharged because of software
But as Steve Garfield notes, that's wrong, because as the story itself says, the problem was that employees entered the wrong data into the software:
It's human error. The 'software' doesn't make the error, a human does.
Having newspaper headline writers write captions for stories about software is like having politicians write legislation about the internet.
The two-newspaper town, Occupy Boston edition
By adamg - 12/11/11 - 1:14 pmJohn Carroll compares the Saturday coverage in our two dailies.
Interesting story placement on the boston.com home page
By adamg - 11/7/11 - 12:01 pm
Oh, those wacky, fun-loving Henrys, whose joie de vivre is just so darn infectious, City Hall can't help but give them great deals on city property! Wouldn't you?
Or, as dvdoff, who spotted this example of All Henry, All The Time puts it:
If anyone else needed proof that Boston.com is turning into the Onion ...
Delusional Globe columnist whines about the Red Sox
By adamg - 10/14/11 - 10:18 amBrian McGrory really should never write about sports.
He really has no clue. He attempts to wax poetically about the time when the Red Sox were lovable losers, but can't even manage a decent impression of Doris Kearns Goodwin in this regard.
But ya know what? Time for something happy:
If anybody should be blamed for outing the Icelandic connection, it's the FBI
By adamg - 10/11/11 - 8:31 amDan Kennedy analyzes the Globe's explanation on how it found the identity of the woman who turned in Bulger and why it didn't put her at any more risk than she already faced - thanks to the FBI saying a few months ago that the winning tip came from Iceland and, really, how many Icelanders would Bulger and Grieg have run across in Santa Monica? Also, he recalls how the rampaging Herald kept mocking the Icelandic connection until it got showed up on basic street reporting (the Globe got the name by talking to neighbors, doh).
Think Shaughnessy has come down from his high yet?
By adamg - 9/30/11 - 7:48 amBruce Allen examines the delight the Globe - not just Shank - took in the collapse of the Red Sox.
