Media

Enough to call off the Patriots fans with pitchforks?

adamg — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:47:58 -0400

You certainly can't accuse the Herald of hiding Tomase's Tapegate mea culpa. In case you're busy, the basic idea is:

Nobody lied to me, I just jumped to conclusions, I feel terrible, will carry this with me for the rest of my life, but I'm a better person for it and, yes, I'm still covering the Patriots and no, I'm not telling you my sources.

Bruce Allen: Um….so that's it?

Dan Kennedy deconstructs Tomase's deconstruction and wonders: Where were the editors?

David Scott conducts what is probably the first liveblogging of a newspaper column.

Glass houses and Herald sports columnists

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:54:12 -0400

On Day 2 of Herald Held Hostage, Bruce Allen begins to feel alienated by the Herald, especially Tony Massarotti:

... My instinct tells me it's the Herald capitalizing on the publicity that this whole incident has generated. Tony writes angry column. Fans can't help but read it. They respond by commenting and talking about it with others. More papers are purchased. More ads are shown online as more pageviews are generated. The comments fly in on the page. People return again and again to read them, creating even more page views and thus ad views. The column gets analyzed on blogs and on sports radio. ...

Dan Shaughnessy Watch is amazed by Massarotti's column today:

His column today was the nastiest, most ignorant piece I have ever read. It tops even Shank's 38pitches parody. ...

A Northeastern journalism professor wants answers.

The anti-violence march and the pirate radio station

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:04:12 -0400

This Sunday, there's going to be a "Man Up for Liquarry Jefferson Accountability March" from Grove Hall to City Hall, to try to get black men to take more responsibility for stopping violence in inner-city Boston (starts at 11 a.m.; it's named for the little boy shot by a cousin with an illegal gun a family member left lying around).

I didn't read about it in the Globe or the Herald, of course. Instead, I heard about it this morning on Touch FM, the pirate radio station a toothless FCC can't seem to shut down.

But maybe it's not such a bad thing the FCC can't figure out how to dismantle an antenna. For the 20 minutes or so I listened to the station in the car (came in very well in Roslindale, slowly faded out as I got toward Rte. 9 in Newton), I listened to callers discussing what "brothas can do" to change the 'hood - and which song they'd pick as a theme for the march or which best reminds them of somebody they'd lost to violence. The DJ recited names of young victims of violence and reminded listeners that the mainstream media only seem to care about the inner city when somebody gets gunned down - where are the stories about good things in the non-white areas of Boston?

The answer to that one is easy, of course: If you look at today's Globe, you'll notice the paper assigned two metro reporters to the Patriots/Herald story (and another to cover a mock hurricane evacuation on the Cape).

Grammar 911 to the Metro, stat

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:59:11 -0400

Deb Geisler provides the latest proof that the Metro is not on speaking terms with English grammar.

Herald to Patriots: Our bad

adamg — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:27:38 -0400

Oops.

John Tomase and Tapegate

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:28:27 -0400

Bruce Allen tries to sort out the whole issue involving the Herald Patriots reporter and what did or didn't happen in New Orleans in 2002.

Funding local investigative journalism

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:02:57 -0400

Combine a non-profit news organization with a locally-oriented ad network, Rick Burnes suggests (follow up).

Boston has a lot of car break-ins

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:09:08 -0400

Really. Only problem with the Herald's zeal to scare us all: Car crimes are actually way down in recent years.

There's a lot the CHB doesn't know about Cleveland

adamg — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:49:29 -0400

The Outraged Liberal, a Cleveland native, couldn't get past the fifth paragraph in Shaughnessy's column today because it's so riddled with factual errors about his birthplace.

News you can use in these troubled financial times

adamg — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:46:04 -0400

The Globe convinces some guy to give up his secrets for getting $10,000 tables for only $5,000 and reveals the surprising news that Filene's Basement and Marshall's often sell things for less than regular department stores.

Via AR, who tries to provide actual tips for people who don't have $5,000 to spend on tables and who have lived in the Boston area for more than a week.