Boston Herald

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.

If anybody should be blamed for outing the Icelandic connection, it's the FBI

adamg — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:31:26 +0000

Dan 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).

Judge: Herald can write about itself

adamg — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:04:35 +0000

Dan Kennedy analyzes a judge's decision that the Herald has the right to report on court proceedings and documents, even if they happen to involve a libel suit against the paper, in this case by Boston band member Tom Scholz in a libel suit over an Inside Track column on the death of lead singer Brad Delp:

The Herald is still at risk over its 2007 reports. [The judge] recently dismissed Scholz's suit against Micki Delp, ruling that the statements at issue were solely the Herald's responsibility. Yesterday's ruling, though, was a victory not just for the Herald, but for the First Amendment - and all of us.

It's the Innovation District for the Herald

adamg — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:32:37 +0000

They probably won't be renaming the Seaport Center on D Street New Wingo Square, however.

Globe just couldn't bring itself to say where Elizabeth Warren signaled a possible Senate run

adamg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:29:01 +0000

"In a posting on a website supportive of the Democratic Party," is as close as our Paper of Record gets to helping its readers read Warren's post in its entirety.

The Herald dared mention Blue Mass. Group, as did every other media outlet across the country that wrote about the post.