Boston Herald
Herald says to remember it to Wingo Square
By adamg - 1/28/12 - 12:31 pmNo 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.
Can a headline ask a question that isn't answered in the story?
By adamg - 1/7/12 - 11:48 amRipped from today's Herald: Are 'Joe for Oil' ads lubricating Joe III's run?
Perfectly valid question to ask, but nowhere does the story suggest that Joe4Oil has suddenly ramped up his omnipresent ads now that his kid is thinking of running for Congress, although it does note he's been thanking the people of Venezuela on TV for years now.
Run for the hills! Dunkin' Donuts signs new agreement with franchisees!
By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:12 pmThe Herald issued a TERROR ALERT on the news.
The two-newspaper town, Occupy Boston edition
By adamg - 12/11/11 - 1:14 pmJohn Carroll compares the Saturday coverage in our two dailies.
You can't buy coverage like that, or maybe you can
By adamg - 12/2/11 - 7:51 amBlue Mass. Group notes the conflict in a column by Holly Robichaud, who doubles as both scribe and political consultant:
How does a freshman state representative get mentioned as a "serious threat" to Democrats looking to retain the Congressional seat being vacated by Barney Frank? Seventeen grand should do it.
Thing is, Robichaud failed to note the consulting fees, for which, of course, BMG provides the state records.
Two sexual assaults: One gets extensive coverage, the other doesn't
By adamg - 11/29/11 - 8:14 amIt was kind of striking yesterday: Around the same time, women in two separate neighborhoods were reporting being sexually attacked.
One of the attacks got played up extensively in the media, the other didn't. Naturally, it would be easy to assign bias to the fact that the news copters and vans raced to Wellesley to cover the attack by a bald black guy on a white teenager in her large suburban home, but couldn't seem to find Franklin Park on a map (with some exceptions).
Storm vs. Herald: Herald loses
By adamg - 10/30/11 - 3:44 pmA power outage at wherever it is the Herald gets printed these days (Chicopee?) means no Heralds for sale around here. The Dedham Square newsstand even has a "NO HERALDS" sign above the shelf where they'd normally be.
Herald: Maybe smelly hippies aren't a health threat in Dewey Square because they've taken their contagion to South Station
By adamg - 10/29/11 - 2:05 pmThe Herald isn't one to take rejection by city health officials lightly. Today, it accuses hippies of stinking up South Station, because, as is well known, there were never unkempt people washing themselves in South Station restrooms or asking for money until before Occupy Boston started.
Herald: Smelly hippies could kill us all
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 6:32 amThe Herald sic'ed roughly half its entire reporting staff (yes, six reporters) on the most urgent public-health crisis facing Boston today: Occupy Boston. The scrappy tabloid urgently warns us today that Dewey Square is a ticking time bomb of a fetid cesspool of disease-ridden, overripe hippies and vermin. The paper does, however, note the presence of hand sanitizer at the encampment.
