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By adamg - 1/2/07 - 4:59 pm

Uh uh

The Globe business section has a story today about plans to replace an old motel in Lexington Center with condos. It's accompanied by the above photo of a Minuteman statue with a caption that starts "The Minuteman statue on Lexington's Battle Green draws many visitors." Indeed it does, but the Minuteman in the photo is the one in Concord, not Lexington.

By adamg - 12/31/06 - 3:54 pm

Nothing against Deval Patrick - I voted for the guy, after all - but the Globe's Bostonian of the Year doesn't actually live in Boston. Maybe they should have named him Miltonian of the Year? OK, OK, makes more sense than Time's inane decision to make me person of the year, but still.

By adamg - 12/16/06 - 12:40 am

On Blue Mass. Group, Charley on the MTA declares victory in his site's seemingly unending war with WGBH's "Greater Boston" over John Carroll's inability to detect sarcasm - apparently Carroll rolled on his back last night and showed his throat to the bloggers, so Charley gave him an affectionate nip and now all is well in the pack again.

But Dan Kennedy, a panelist on the show (also: a blogger), says Charley misquoted him.

By emily sweeney - 12/11/06 - 9:07 am

I found some wicked classic Randolph High School videos (circa 1985) on Youtube... and I posted a couple of 'em on the Globe's FlipSide blog:

I love the clip of RHS students singing "Do They Know It's Christmas" at the school talent show....love it.

And there are plenty more where that came from...take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RHSClassOf1985

By adamg - 12/10/06 - 10:26 pm

The Globe's City Weekly had a big splashy feature today on Josh Michtom's effort to photograph every last Madonna in a bathtub in Somerville. Missing? A link to the Web site where he's posting all those photos.

By adamg - 12/5/06 - 10:38 am

At Squaring the Boston Globe, Harry posts the letter he had printed in the Globe yesterday - showing the cuts made by the Globe letters editor.

By adamg - 12/4/06 - 11:30 am

Soxaholix wonders:

So if guys like Epstein and Belichick being tightlipped with the media is, as Shaughnessy writes, "a waste of everyone's time," then what is a Shaughnessy column discussing said tightlippedness — A double-super colossal waste of everyone's time? ...

By adamg - 12/3/06 - 3:01 pm

Yesterday, both the Globe and the Herald reported on the arrest of some alleged mob kingpin. Borderline compares the two stories:

... The Globe reads like an obituary, the Herald like a thriller. Which story do you want to keep reading?

By adamg - 11/30/06 - 10:26 am

John Daley, one of our boys in blue, wonders whether the local media (and he's looking at you, Boston Herald) is helping to fan gang violence, with cavalier headlines and re-identifying kids who now fear for their lives.

By emily sweeney - 11/29/06 - 11:28 pm

The Boston Globe just launched another blog...it's called
Flipside
and it's supposed to chronicle Boston's nightlife, and fun events happening around town.

I'm one of four Globe writers who'll be posting to Flipside regularly, so feel free to send me stuff that you think is blog-worthy: event listings...party photos....nightclub gossip....story ideas....you can suggest people we should interview...places we should write about...video clips...and anything else you can think of.

My e-mail address is [email protected] -- drop me a line anytime. There's also a place on the Flipside blog where you can submit feedback, and you can find individual e-mail addresses for my fellow Flipside bloggers there, too.

By adamg - 11/29/06 - 10:23 am

In general, I like listening to 'BZ on the way to work - they can do a good job with breaking news (Danvers) and they always let me know what's on the front page of the day's Globe.

This morning, they faced a tough decision. Should they send ace reporter/poet Carl Stevens out to cover a gang-related double shooting in Roxbury (one dead, one wounded) or a store on Newbury Street that had a window smashed this morning?

Guess which one they chose?

By adamg - 11/28/06 - 8:32 am

David Scott has the deets on the sportsy cat fight, which so far actually seems limited to Ryan howling about Bill Simmons and Simmons just sitting there, not saying a thing (Media Farm wonders if it's all just a ploy by Ryan to make himself relevant again - hmm, isn't that Shaughnessy's thing, you know, pick a fight for no particular reason?).

By adamg - 11/21/06 - 1:59 pm

Mass. Marrier compiles a list of stories the local media never seemed to ask any questions about, including:

By adamg - 11/21/06 - 10:39 am

Brian McGrory recently admitted publicly that he could not decide if he were a fool or Mitt Romney were a fraud. At issue: $400,000 Romney cut from state funding for homeless shelters.

Now, in the face of a public outcry, Romney has restored the money. And Brian is in love with the governor again:

... What Romney did on Friday when he reversed the cut was something all too rare in public life: He made a difference.

By adamg - 11/20/06 - 11:46 am

Dan Kennedy writes that next time Alex Beam wants to complain about a blogger's grammar, he might want to check to see if he's right first.

By adamg - 11/17/06 - 9:06 am

Brian McGrory is flabbergasted that the Occasional Governor would step on the backs of the poor to pick up some more conservative votes in South Carolina:

Either I'm a fool, or our governor is a fraud.

By adamg - 11/16/06 - 12:03 pm

Has nothing to do with his frustration over pinko Hillary-loving reporters and everything to do with what happens after Jan. 2, when local reporters start getting access to Beacon Hill files that might prove embarrassing to the Man Who Would Be President. At least, that's what Seth Gitell, who knows something about the local press (having served as Menino mouthpiece), argues.

By adamg - 11/16/06 - 11:46 am

There's nothing funnier than a sports writer warning a ballplayer to ignore all the mean things he'll see in the papers when he gets to Boston. Especially when it's Dan Shaughnessy.

Soxaholix muses:

... Shaughnessy's like the O.J. of sportswriters. Always innocent, always some othah guys calling playahs "pieces of filth."

By adamg - 11/3/06 - 12:58 pm

Bruce critiques several of the people on the Globe's list of people who allegedly dress better than you:

Architect Stephen Chung conforms to the "architects wear black" code.

Yeah, real cutting edge there, pal. Most of us call that the "everyone in Allston was wearing that same dumpy-looking crap back in 1986" code. I guess, maybe, it becomes stylish twenty years later if you dress like that and stand on the table like a third-grader making some kind of anti-broccoli protest statement. ...

By adamg - 11/2/06 - 10:33 pm

It's not just that the Globe dedicated FIFTEEN reporters, photographers and editors to its list of the 25 most allegedly stylish people in Boston. Or that it was spread over six pages (with four pages of non-stylish reviews weirdly stuck in the middle). Or that they somehow decided that city Councilor Michael Ross is more dapper than city Councilor John Tobin. No, what really got me about the whole thing was the intro (print only):

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