The ghost of Ted Kennedy haunts the Herald

adamg — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:01:27 +0000

Kennedy famously made sure Rupert Murdoch had to choose between keeping Channel 25 and the Herald (a couple decades after the feds stripped the Herald-Traveler of its TV license) and now the Federal Highway Administration thinks the state should make Herald owner Pat Purcell take down the billboard atop the (eventually to be former) Herald plant next to the Expressway.

The FHA also expresses ire over the giant banner on the Fenway Community Health Center building on Boylston Street in the Fenway, which is right next to, um, er, hey, what highway is it next to again?

Pat Purcell, Globe publisher?

adamg — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:43:19 +0000

Mwa-ha-ha!

According to the Times, Jack Welch has talked to Herald Publisher Pat Purcell about joining in on that Globe bid, the one it turns out that, despite what the Globe reported yesterday, the Times didn't actually say definitively no to. The Times story also says Welch's wife Suzy is "enamored" of the idea of owning a newspaper (aw, wouldn't that be cute: A copy of the Globe wrapped in a red ribbon under the Christmas tree!) and further identified her as a "former editor of the Harvard Business Review" without explaining exactly how she became a former editor (Jack, you explain it).

Dan Kennedy considers just what sort of media boss Welch would be (again) - he's not liking what he sees in his record as chief potentate of NBC.