Boston Herald

MBTA starts useful service and the Herald won't stand for that

adamg — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:07:04 +0000

Seems that when a big convention is in town, the MBTA runs special Silver Line service to the airport straight from the convention center, rather than making people carry their bags on that long walk to the nearest Silver Line stop and crowding onto a bus there.

Are you outraged? The Herald is, to the point of displacing its long-running Indian Joke of the Day series from the front page, which today features end-of-world fonts to accuse the T of stealing "all" its buses to service fat-cat conventioneers. Who, the Herald grudgingly admits, pay their fares just like rest of us - but only after the paper's crack investigative unit did some undercover surveillance:

On Friday, a Herald reporter and photographer observed people at the convention center paying regular fares to board the nonstop airport-bound Silver Line buses. The drivers did not take normal Silver Line routes or make any Silver Line stops before dropping passengers at Logan Airport. A driver said the buses provide conventioneers with rides to the airport. A bus tailed by the Herald did not follow the Silver Line’s dedicated bus route, instead driving directly to the Ted Williams Tunnel.

The horror!

Ed. derail question: Why is the convention center stop so far away from the convention center?

Bochwhoring: How many references to the car guy can the Track Gals do in one week?

adamg — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:42:29 +0000

The week's Bochwhoring Index stands at 2.

Yesterday, of course, the Gals mentioned Boch Jr.'s celebrity roast and then, today, they used an on-air tiff between the roast host and some DJ we're relieved to see is still alive to play up the Norwood resident's name (in the headline, in a reference in the column, in an accompanying photo and, online, a clip from the roast - hmm, so should that make the Index a 6?).

Across city, anxious residents struggle to get through breakfast

adamg — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:53:08 +0000

Production problems mean delayed delivery of the Boston Globe across the region today. The Herald is, of course, also affected. On Beacon Hill, residents faced their own existential crisis, as Emily Gullickson reports:

Sunday Times delivery is late, leaving everyone in Beacon Hill to drink their coffee without the paper.

The Globe Web site opened up free versions of its e-edition, but too many people took it up on the offer or something and www.bostonglobe.com crashed. Meanwhile, on Channel 7, Michaela Lynn informs us, a reporter alerted viewers:

The Globe says that you can read the Globe online, or just watch the news here.

And on the lighter side of the news, what auto magnate now has a watch made of dinosaur dung?

adamg — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:07:57 +0000

Yes, of course, Ernie Boch Jr., we learn today from his house organ.

Herald says to remember it to Wingo Square

adamg — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:31:33 +0000

The Herald has completed its move to the South Boston waterfront.

No more Chicopee Herald

adamg — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:56:37 +0000

The 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?

adamg — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:48:18 +0000

Ripped 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!

adamg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:12:35 +0000

The Herald issued a TERROR ALERT on the news.

The two-newspaper town, Occupy Boston edition

adamg — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:14:19 +0000

John Carroll compares the Saturday coverage in our two dailies.

You can't buy coverage like that, or maybe you can

adamg — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:51:46 +0000

Blue 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

adamg — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:14:53 +0000

It 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

adamg — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:44:47 +0000

A 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

adamg — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:05:03 +0000

The 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

adamg — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:32:10 +0000

The 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.

Somerville mayor Curtatone wears unexpected disguise to city Halloween parade

cdevers — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:10:19 +0000

Following the recent unpleasantness, Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone surprised the crowd at the city's Halloween parade with an unexpected disguise today.