Bruce has some advice for former Boston City Councilor David Scondras, now accused of trying to InterWebs-lure a teen (who turned out to be a cop pretending to be a teen) to have sex with him:
There are no 15-year-old boys (or girls, for that matter) surfing the internet, looking for cheap, anonymous sex with 60-year-old men. ...
In the long run, probably doesn't matter, but Greg Reibman notes dueling claims in the Globe and Herald from Roslindale residents on who found the poor baby.
Dan Kennedy notes that the Herald's Inside Track recently slammed Boston Magazine ("the older and increasingly irrelevant Boston maggie") without disclosing that the Track Gals both write for Boston Magazine competitor Boston Common.
Real or faked? John Daley ponders the possibly alleged ceiling memo, including Howie Carr's Globe bashing, says it's all great fun but adds:
... But there's also the public interest, apparently lost in all the posturing and foaming at the mouth. Maybe the memo is real. Maybe not. It's an important question for how blame and liability will be assigned. Nothing happening in either newspaper now is contributing to getting the answer. ...
Dan Kennedy compares the contrasting coverage in the two dailies of that guy who died in an ambulance stuck in a tunnel traffic jam (he gives props to the Herald for the scoop; says the Globe is smelling Pulitzer), concludes the guy would have died anyway, but adds:
... Even though Olsen should have arrived at the hospital sooner than he did, he almost certainly didn't die because of the Big Dig. But unless the traffic problem is solved soon (unlikely, to say the least), someone will.
Sean McCarthy looks at the schizo performances of our two dailies when it comes to bad words in recent days. "Shit" is OK in the Globe but not the Herald, while the Globe won't print "fag" but the Herald will.
... So are both papers showing inconsistencies? Or do these decisions make perfect sense? What do you think? What would you do? ...
My favorite expletive is, of course, frickin', but you don't see that much in the papers, either.
Tim Lavallee took a deep breath then drove home via the Big Dig last night:
left work tonight expecting the longest commute home ever. Instead, the Big Dig was empty like a Sunday morning. Traffic on the southbound side was very, very light. Even the usual slow down areas, such as the tunnel exit to the South Bay mall, was a speed limit breeze. ...
A photo with a bostonherald.com story on same-sex marriage proclaims:
Rabbi Daniel Judson (reform jewish) of Temple Beth David in Canton speaks to media against gay marriage.
As Mass. Marrier points out, Judson, in fact, is very much in favor of same sex marriage:
Now that a marginal player from back in the day has admitted to shooting up (to a non-local media outlet), David Scott wonders if the local papers will do some investigative work:
... The Steroids Scandal has been barely played out in Boston and that needs to change.
John Daley: Two headlines, two cities. He notes that while today's Herald front page looks at continuing violent crime in a Boston neighborhood, the Globe's front page examines the finances of the MSPCA.
Dan Kennedy summarizes two possible cases of plagiarism at the Herald - one involving a possible plagiarized Inside Track bit on, er, um, plagiarism.
Mark Jurkowitz takes a break from packing long enough to express outrage that a tabloid newspaper would use puns in headlines and that you can often tell from photographs of women that they have breasts.
Joe Dwinell lends his press pass to a frantic aide for "Gone, Baby, Gone - they needed it as a prop.
Carpundit ponders today's Herald front page, which finally gives voice to that most dispossessed of minorities: Long-time Sox fans beset by new, fair-weather Sox fans:
Why do they put sportswriters on the front page? Is everyone else sick?
Berto reads the story and wonders what turned Tony Massarotti into such a He-Man Woman Hater:
Michael Burstein, a Town Meeting member (precinct 9) surveys the local coverage of the impeachment vote:
... [I]n response to the Boston Herald's editorial "Next up for Brookline: Iran", in which they criticize Town Meeting for passing the resolution and ask, "Don't these people have a town budget to balance?" I say to them: We did. On the first night of Town Meeting.
Earlier:
Brookline to Bush: Pack your bags.
David Scott rips apart this past Sunday's Globe sports section - and ponders why some reporters played up David Wells's "scab" comment without once pondering our very own homegrown scab:
... The city (and the Herald, notably) just spent a week celebrating the Biggest Little Scab of 'Em All, Disney's newest Mighty Mite, Doug Flutie. ...
Bonus disclosure fact: I covered both Doug Flutie's wedding and the opening of Flutie Pass.
Dan Primack at Private Equity Week has nothing but scorn for the Herald/CNC deal, calling the Herald un-sellable and Herald Publisher Pat Purcell "disingenous" and saying:
... [I]ts best asset (i.e., its Chinatown-adjacent HQ) could be contaminated with decades of printing press toxins. ...
Via Lisa Williams, who rounds up other comments on the deal.
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