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Killer crosswalk controls

By adamg - 7/19/06 - 1:49 pm

This is what Channel 5's investigative team has been reduced to: Janet Wu wandering around Boston like some crazed pediatrician with a throat-culture Q-tip, rubbing random objects in random public places (such as a single crossing button at a single, unidentified crosswalk) and having a lab determine whether they have bacteria on them.

Guess what? They do! Alas, Janet can't tell us if these are KILLER GERMS because she apparently spent so much on the swab sticks that Channel 5 refused to pay for real testing. But you never know:

WRKO blabmeister suspended over Big Dig comments

By adamg - 7/19/06 - 10:09 am

John DePetro has 72 hours to sit in a corner for calling Matt Amorello a fag and a sissy boy.

David on Blue Mass Group: Hey, guess what John? You're an asshole. And no one can suspend me for saying so.

Aaron Margolis begs to differ:

... Shame on WRKO for caving in, and having such a spineless policy. Go screw, you bunch of sissies. ...

Thanks for clearing that up, Bob

By adamg - 7/19/06 - 10:03 am

This morning on WBUR, Bob Oakes read a brief item about some alligator found in Townsend that will eventually be shipped to Florida. He then added:

That's Florida Florida, not Florida, Massachusetts.

Hazel Mae? She sure will!

By adamg - 7/17/06 - 1:22 pm

Be sticking around Boston, that is. David Scott has the scoop on Mae's contract extension with NESN, which he credits in part to her "evocative wardrobe," if you know what he means.

Is it sweeps week already?

By adamg - 7/16/06 - 11:24 pm

On Tuesday, Channel 5's Investigators will reveal the shocking news that doorknobs, pedestrian-crossing buttons and other things you touch in public COULD HAVE BACTERIA ON THEM!

Globe editorialists can't find local political blogs?

By adamg - 7/16/06 - 5:25 pm

John Daley notes the oddness of a Globe editorial on political blogs that only refers to a single political blog in Florida:

No more arts criticism on WBUR

By adamg - 7/14/06 - 1:15 pm

WBUR is firing long-time arts critic Bill Marx and shutting down its arts site, which Marx oversees and which features (featured) reviews, a blog, podcasts and an arts calendar.

No word on what will fill Marx's time. More time for headlines taken from the Globe and Herald?

Via the Bank of America Celebrity Series blog.

Bob Ryan is no Dan Shaughnessy

By adamg - 7/13/06 - 3:13 pm

That compliment having been made, however, it was odd to read him today complaining about the amount of wasted newsprint and verbiage on Manny's All-Star No-Show, because his entire column was about, well, Manny's All-Star No-Show.

Yeah, like God forbid we be nice to each other in public

By adamg - 7/12/06 - 10:12 pm

Deborah Elizabeth Finn glumly notes that Conspicuous Consumption Monthly Boston Magazine has deemed her smile-at-a-stranger plan a "Bad Idea." Although Lord knows why, since it would probably mean even more advertising from orthodontists for them.

Big Dig: Questions, anger, amazement continue

By adamg - 7/12/06 - 10:17 am

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. ...

Oh, and let's not forget the weather

By adamg - 7/11/06 - 1:48 pm

CO is watching the Channel 7 tornado warning for the New Hampshire coast:

He is so excited about seeing the images on the Doppler, and can hardly maintain a suitable somber expression. Keeps trying not to smile, even when reporting the golf-ball-sized hail or advising people without basements to get into the bathtub and cover themselves with pillows.

2 p.m.: Hail and gusty winds here in Southborough, but two minutes later, it's down to a light rain.

Planting good news

By adamg - 7/11/06 - 8:33 am

John Daley marvels:

... On a day when the Big Dig tunnel collapse is the big news everywhere else, the Globe dedicates most of its (one star) front page real estate to a story about a cactus. ...

Tai, meanwhile, wonders about the lack of news on all those automated music stations:

Pundit smackdown

By adamg - 7/10/06 - 10:24 pm

Blue Mass. Group is hosting a teleconference battle of the pundits tomorrow (Tuesday) between Jon Keller and Adam Reilly of the Phoenix. Starts at 8 p.m. Click on the link for the phone number or to submit questions (the teleconference itself will be listen-only for everyone who isn't named Keller or Reilly).

That takes moth balls

By adamg - 7/8/06 - 10:12 am

Jennifer Forman Orth, an invasive plant ecologist with the UMass-Boston biology department, has a leaf to pick with Mitt Romney and Howie Carr over their snickering about proposed funding for a program to do something about winter moths:

Brian McGrory, professional parent

By adamg - 7/7/06 - 9:54 am

Mind your manners when company's around! Coming up on Tuesday: Eat your vegetables or you won't get any dessert!

Jenn Martinelli, however, says Mr. Nag has a point, at least when it comes to people who work in industries catering to visitors:

The disconnect between the Globe and the city it's based in

By adamg - 7/6/06 - 9:34 am

At the recent Media Giraffe conference at UMass-Amherst, longtime reporter/editor Tom Stites discussed the ultimate yuppification of American newspapers and what that means for democracy.

He pretends he's a single mother of three living in East Boston who rides the Blue Line to her low-pay, no-health-insurance job near Downtown Crossing.

The media are different from you and me

By adamg - 7/1/06 - 9:48 am

Alison is grateful nobody was hurt when some kid in her neighborhood blew up a pipebomb large enough to attract media attention. But she wonders why the police gave the media free rein while restricting the movement of residents:

Don't you just love the way the Times travel section writes about Boston?

By adamg - 6/30/06 - 9:13 am

The Gray Lady finds us just so cute:

Ever wonder how many alliterations Channel 7 can cram into a half-hour newscast?

By adamg - 6/30/06 - 9:05 am

Lance watches an entire 11-o'clock newscast so you don't have to:

11:00 -- Relentless Rain, Fleeing the Floods, Record Rain, Rivers Rise, Fierce Flooding. Wow, we're not even a minute into the news cast and we have five alliterations. To Dan Housle for more. ...

Letters to the editor the editor won't print

By adamg - 6/30/06 - 8:04 am

Finally, a place to send those letters even the Metro won't print: Jon Garfunkel has set up a site called Incivilities:

Attention editors, publishers, bloggers and anyone else who gets email from a public unhinged on a semi-regular basis.

The next time you get a letter from a reader on the far side of coherence and civility, avoid the temptation that Keith Olbermann succumbed to (e.g., responding in kind). Instead, send 'em here: [email protected]. ...

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