File this under "It's a small world, after all:" When the Boston Newspaper Guild takes out an ad in the Herald protesting Globe plans to outsource some jobs to Bangalore, one of the first responses is from Indian blogger Manish Vij:
At least, according to the Globe's paean to the new UMass-Lowell chancellor. Adam Reilly compares the Globe's soft touch with the Herald's slightly more critical take, which at least acknowledges that the other two candidates had slightly better academic credentials (in the sense that they actually have them).
Spatch can barely contain his nausea at seeing not just "would of" on the front page of a major daily newspaper in the Athens of America but on seeing a story in it about products you can use to track your kids, including one called, without irony, Big Brother Teen Tracker. He whips out his "Please Kill Me If I Ever ..." list and adds:
"...if I ever decide I can't trust my own offspring and thus decide to tag 'em with an Orwellian GPS tracker"
Only it seemed to feature at most three actual bloggers. In any case, Mike Mennonno went to BostonNOW's event the other day and files a pretty comprehensive report and analysis - in which he questions whether the whole blogger/media thing will work as print editors want it to work, in part because the paper won't use any content from sites that are "biased," which might seem to rule out pretty much every blog.
Ryan Adams has had an interesting e-mail exchange with the Globe's Joan Vennochi about the intersection of columnists and bloggers (although I question his assertion that columnists are supposed to be unbiased, and I wonder if Vennochi assented to have her e-mail made public).
OK, so I blew it when I predicted the Herald's Laurel Sweet would write another story about the Finneran/Carr "feud" yesterday. She didn't.
Thank goodness for Brian McGrory. Just as I predicted, his column today is all about his grave, grave disappointment in Deval Patrick. Our Boy Bri is angry with the governor over the New Bedford case.
The Globe reports today that dissent erupted in the blogosphere over Deval Patrick's call on behalf of that mortgage company he used to work for, in an article about allegedly shellshocked Patrick supporters.
The Herald's Laurel Sweet will get Tom Finneran to insult today's insult-o-matic column by Howie Carr, thus letting her extend the Herald's Finneran/Carr streak to four days with a story that consists of one paragraph of new material and twelve paragraphs of background (or maybe two paragraphs of new material if she gets Carr to make a crack about Ron Borges over this boston.com poll).
Eeka writes NPR to complain about a piece on "All Things Considered" about bass fishing and gets back a form letter apologizing that her bass-fishing expectations were not met:
Funny, I didn't know I had expectations about bass fishing.
Ever wonder what poet of the airwaves Carl Stevens looks like? The 'BZ reporter files a video report on lottery fever in Brighton today:
Chronology of how Ron Borges went from Globe football beat writer to suspended Globe football beat writer in just 24 hours, starting with a post in an ESPN forum.
Want to discuss the Borges case? Maybe don't bother with boston.com's message boards.
Globe sportswriter Ron Borges was suspended for two months for cribbing a Tacoma News-Tribune story in a column yesterday:
"The Globe does not tolerate plagiarism," (Globe Editor Martin) Baron said in a statement. "Extensive passages written by the Tacoma reporter were used verbatim in the column by Borges, and that is prohibited." ...
Cold Hard Football Facts claims that this Borges column on a Seattle Seahawks player came from this Tacoma News-Tribune article a week earlier.
John Daley takes note of today's most important, 72-point front-page story in the Herald, that Tom Finneran has upset Howie Carr with a cheap joke:
... Howie Carr is such a nice guy. He always takes the high road in his columns, never resorting to tough guy, cheap shot, desperate attempt at humor, attacks on his subjects. Now radio competitor Tom Finneran is making derisive jokes about poor Howard. I'm sure this is very upsetting to the man. ...
Perhaps Borges thought his readers have the attention span of gnats and wouldn't remember that his column today on how the signing of Adalius Thomas was possibly a big mistake completely contradicts what he wrote just yesterday on MSNBC. Bruce Allen and his readers are all over Borges - and remind him that they can, too, retain information for longer than 24 hours.
Well, this was a week I'll long remember. I was in a crappy mood Monday night. I had a ton of work due on Tuesday. I had to give mid-term progress reports on all my students. I was behind on grading tests, which needed to be done if I was to give an honest assessment on the reports. But I also needed to get an expense check and a month worth of pay into the bank before the mortgage came due.
Scott Allen Miller writes it's kind of amazing that the Globe, which still includes "Boston" in its full name, can't figure out that J.J. Foleys is in Downtown Crossing or the Financial District, but definitely not the Leather District. He adds:
... Although he says he doesn't remember the incident in question, Foley made it clear that he would expel gay people from his bar for kissing. What a moron. JJ Foley will have to get along without my future business. ...
Only in Boston, Kids discusses various faults of the Metro, but raises a scary possibility: Imagine if Spare Change Guy ever started hawking it:
Want a Free-e-e-e-e-e-e Metro-o-o-o-o?"
Seth Gitell is offering a pizza from John's Bakery in Roslindale (you don't want to miss that) to whoever guesses the name of the anonymous State House source of a particularly vacuous quote in today's Adrian Walker column.
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