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By adamg - 1/7/07 - 6:42 pm

Margalit wonders why local TV news crews are so enamored of cars careening into buildings - it's not like that's such an exotic thing around here:

... We've had cars crashed into babies cribs, cars crashed into living rooms, cars crashed into Harvard, cars crashed into garages, cars crashed into restaurants, cars crashed into offices, in fact we've had cars crashing into pretty much every type of building you can imagine. It never seems to get boring to the local new media, who cover every story seemingly with glee. ...

By adamg - 1/7/07 - 6:06 pm

Hub Politics marvels that WRKO allegedly canned John DePetro for calling Grace Ross "a fat lesbian," yet thinks its OK to give new felon Tom Finneran a radio show (hmm, anybody of the Rhode Island variety remember which station Buddy Cianci got a show on after his first conviction?).

By adamg - 1/7/07 - 2:09 pm

T officials report no complaints whatsoever about CharlieCards failing after just four days, so therefore, it hasn't happened. Plus, anybody who's had problems with a CharlieCard, well, let's just say your trolley doesn't go to the last stop.

By adamg - 1/5/07 - 12:00 pm

Arizona snowWorried that a bigger Yankee Magazine is losing touch with its roots? The Herald reports that the snowy scene on the cover of the new mutant-sized mag is actually from Flagstaff, Arizona (gives new meaning to the term "western New England"). A Yankee editor acknowledged to the Herald that they knew the photo had no connection whatsoever with any place east of the Taconics:

"There was concern that the image was from Arizona," Allen said. "But we felt the sense of wonder was universal."

So "sense of wonder" is the new New England. I can't wait for the first spread on shopping in Manhattan.

By adamg - 1/5/07 - 11:06 am

Dan Kennedy notices some subtle differences in the way the Globe and Herald cover the question of whether Tom Finneran will get to stay as head of the Mass. Biotechnology Council (one guess which paper led with the word "Disgraced").

Meanwhile, visitors to Channel 5's Web site are left wondering how and when Patrick turned into a bald white guy and how they missed the inaugural celebration on the ice at the Garden:

Huh?
By adamg - 1/5/07 - 11:00 am

Were those tears in Harv's eyes last night as he explained how the jet stream is keeping all the cold air away from us? Looked like the poor boy was just barely holding it together - dammit, if we don't get a good old-fashioned Nor'easter soon, his head will just explode (let's all get together and send him some weather love, shall we?).

By adamg - 1/2/07 - 4:59 pm

Uh uh

The Globe business section has a story today about plans to replace an old motel in Lexington Center with condos. It's accompanied by the above photo of a Minuteman statue with a caption that starts "The Minuteman statue on Lexington's Battle Green draws many visitors." Indeed it does, but the Minuteman in the photo is the one in Concord, not Lexington.

By adamg - 1/2/07 - 8:24 am

Maureen Rogers likes the heft of the new, mutant Yankee magazine (no more confusion with the Old Farmer's Almanac). But she is not too enthused about the content, which seems to be heading toward Boston-Magazine-style conspicuous consumption:

By adamg - 12/31/06 - 3:54 pm

Nothing against Deval Patrick - I voted for the guy, after all - but the Globe's Bostonian of the Year doesn't actually live in Boston. Maybe they should have named him Miltonian of the Year? OK, OK, makes more sense than Time's inane decision to make me person of the year, but still.

By adamg - 12/30/06 - 8:09 pm

And Todd Gross looked like he was 12. DCbatwing posts some snippets from a 1984 newscast on Channel SE7EN:

By adamg - 12/30/06 - 12:47 pm

You know those time tones WBZ-AM has played at the top of the hour every hour for the past 60 years or so - and no matter whether it comes in the middle of a commercial or promo? If you have a Linux computer and know what to do with some C code, you can synchronize your computer to WBZ time.

Via Spatch, who notes the final tone now always comes eight seconds after the hour:

By adamg - 12/30/06 - 12:11 pm

The storm claimed one more victim last night, at least, according to Channel 7 news.

By adamg - 12/28/06 - 9:25 pm

Red readily admits he couldn't tell a right wing from a Buffalo wing, but adds he has a couple of great reasons to never miss The Buzz on NESN.

By adamg - 12/22/06 - 10:31 am

It's the feelbad story of the day: Elderly couple has their handicap ramp stolen. And you know it's going to be all over the airwaves (to be followed up by a heartwarming story involving a local carpenter volunteering to build them a new one for free). But get a jump on tonight's news and read about it now.

Via Dan O'Brien, who broke the story for the Wakefield Item and who wonders why TV stations never give small papers credit for the stories they get from them.

By tatefox - 12/22/06 - 10:09 am

While digging through local newspapers this morning I came across an alarming article in the, "Cambridge Chronicle," that seemed familiar.

townonline.com/...8999339022509670399

It was! It was originally published September 11th 2002!

I guess some people are more concerned with hitting the highway than fact checking.

By adamg - 12/20/06 - 12:25 pm

Dan Kennedy detects a certain fill-in-the-blanks-ness to a number of Herald outrage stories:

Three or four times a year, the Boston Herald comes up with an easy answer to the arduous question of what to put on the front page. The editors follow a formula, reliable, predictable and simple. Just fill in the blanks ...

He points to today's "tourism czarina" front pager:

By adamg - 12/19/06 - 5:14 pm

Well, OK, more of a refinement to my weary eyes. Looks a bit cleaner than the older look, although I think there's way too much stuff splattered around the logo - and way too much stuff on the home page, which just goes on and on forever, but, hey, unlike certain other large organizations we could name, at least boston.com made sure its site would still work when more than 12 people at once tried to call it up.

Jonelle Lonergan, however, basically goes: Blecch:

By adamg - 12/19/06 - 9:56 am

Jessica Haslam watches the last Channel 56 newscast that isn't just a screaming copy of the Channel 7 newscast. Jack Hynes was there:

... "With bitter reflections we sign off for the last time ... we say goodnight and goodbye," Hynes said. ...

Josh Turiel in turn says farewell to Karen Marinella et al.:

... The Channel 56 newscast was our preferred one for many years - a little slower, more sober, and the staff consisted of primarily local people who had worked together for years. That's how I prefer my newscasts - not the usual MTV-paced stuff (Channel 7 was a pioneer in that regard, unfortunately). But my demographic isn't as relevant, and the trend is clear. ...

Hinghamweather videoed the last four minutes:

By adamg - 12/18/06 - 10:36 am

Mike Mennonno urges David Robichaud to get some better advice on waxing/trimming his eyebrows - before it's too late.

By adamg - 12/17/06 - 6:55 pm

So Spatch complains the T's failed new Web site doesn't work in his browser of choice and Mac "Computer Expert" Daniel at the Globe tells him to stop using that browser. Spatch gently replies why that's wrong (well, OK, the word "douchebag" did come up at least once). Now the Linux fanboys at Slashdot are piling on. I'm trying to get through the entire discussion, but it's giving me a headache.

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