Boston Globe

The anti-violence march and the pirate radio station

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:04:12 -0400

This Sunday, there's going to be a "Man Up for Liquarry Jefferson Accountability March" from Grove Hall to City Hall, to try to get black men to take more responsibility for stopping violence in inner-city Boston (starts at 11 a.m.; it's named for the little boy shot by a cousin with an illegal gun a family member left lying around).

I didn't read about it in the Globe or the Herald, of course. Instead, I heard about it this morning on Touch FM, the pirate radio station a toothless FCC can't seem to shut down.

But maybe it's not such a bad thing the FCC can't figure out how to dismantle an antenna. For the 20 minutes or so I listened to the station in the car (came in very well in Roslindale, slowly faded out as I got toward Rte. 9 in Newton), I listened to callers discussing what "brothas can do" to change the 'hood - and which song they'd pick as a theme for the march or which best reminds them of somebody they'd lost to violence. The DJ recited names of young victims of violence and reminded listeners that the mainstream media only seem to care about the inner city when somebody gets gunned down - where are the stories about good things in the non-white areas of Boston?

The answer to that one is easy, of course: If you look at today's Globe, you'll notice the paper assigned two metro reporters to the Patriots/Herald story (and another to cover a mock hurricane evacuation on the Cape).

There's a lot the CHB doesn't know about Cleveland

adamg — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:49:29 -0400

The Outraged Liberal, a Cleveland native, couldn't get past the fifth paragraph in Shaughnessy's column today because it's so riddled with factual errors about his birthplace.

News you can use in these troubled financial times

adamg — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:46:04 -0400

The Globe convinces some guy to give up his secrets for getting $10,000 tables for only $5,000 and reveals the surprising news that Filene's Basement and Marshall's often sell things for less than regular department stores.

Via AR, who tries to provide actual tips for people who don't have $5,000 to spend on tables and who have lived in the Boston area for more than a week.

Globe loses another Pulitzer winner

adamg — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:02:59 -0400

Charlie Savage moves to the Times.

CHB to blogger: Go back to your mom's basement

adamg — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:38:32 -0400

A couple days ago, Rob expressed disgust with the way Dan Shaughnessy compared Kevin Garnett to Alex Rodriguez. He e-mailed Shaughnessy to let him know. Shaughnessy responded:

sorry -- no time for fanboy rants.

shaughnessy

Which Rob also analyzes, concluding:

... Who else wants to start a collection/bake sale to raise enough money to get Carl Everett back here and pay him to kick Shaughnessy in the nads?

The Roxbury Tollbooth

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:01:07 -0400

Miss Von Schtoop reads this Globe story about panhandling at Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard and finds it pretty funny, from the Bulwer-Lytton opening sentence to the lack of any mention of all the Boston Chargers kids who equally annoy motorists:

... They open the article with such a cheeseball line: "The call went out: "Yo, po-po!" and within seconds, the panhandlers who meander with regularity through the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard near Boston Medical Center scattered to parts unknown." Really quite unforgivable writing.

Pretty soon someone there is going to start an article with the line "It was a dark and stormy night.." at which point we can just hire a few wreckers to tear down 135 Morrissey Boulevard because all hope will have been lost. ...

The latest Globe reporter to leave

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:43:54 -0400

But Pulitzer winner Sacha Pfeiffer isn't going far, Adam Reilly reports: She'll become health and science reporter at WBUR.

In case you missed the Globe today

adamg — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:18:37 -0400

John Daley sums up a big front-page story:

They painted a barn in Bellows Falls Vt and now they might have to paint over it. ...

Hospitals: Threat or menace?

Jay Levitt — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:12:50 -0400

Our hospitals are releasing deadly, toxic fumes into the atmosphere! The Globe has the story:

Boy poisoned by carbon monoxide released from hospital

Oh... my mistake. Just a bad headline from whichever Globe editor didn't quit last week.

Where's the Cape Verdean columnist?

adamg — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:55 -0400

And the Haitian columnist? And the Brazilian columnist? And the Vietnamese columnist? And the Russian columnist? Oh, right, the Globe is a bit short of funds right now, so they can only afford an Irish columnist.