New York Times

A New York paper is miffed that our governor hasn't been brought down by a sex scandal

adamg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:51:27 -0400

So instead it devotes front-page space to detail how Deval Patrick isn't a Third-World tyrant bending the state legislature to his will, while failing, as the Outraged Liberal notes, to pick up on the possible ethical questions being raised about Sal DiMasi.

Still, as Dan Kennedy writes:

If you're the governor of Massachusetts, this is not how you want to be featured on the front page of the New York Times. ...

Charley on the MTA notes the Gray Story didn't tell us anything new and got some stuff wrong, but wonders why Patrick is so completely invisible away from the State House (and no, Mr. Governor, DevalPatrick.com doesn't count):

... He doesn't get out to town hall meetings; he doesn't hold events with the general public to take the temperature of the body politic; in other words, he has indeed lost his political touch. ...

Jay Fitzgerald continues to make the case that DiMasi's casino victory was of the Pyrrhic variety.

Meanwhile, over at the local broadsheet, Joan Vennochi proves her mastery of Lexis/Nexis: She devotes an entire column to pasting in examples of politicians caught in lies over the past decade, then concludes with two sentences that set a new bar for stating the obvious - that presidential candidates get in trouble when they get caught lying. O RLY?

Harry at Squaring the Boston Globe also wonders whether Clinton was caught in another lie - by a college student.

Attention New York Times

adamg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:17:51 -0500

Michael at the AIDS Action Committee writes:

Hello, New York Times ... HIV isn't making an alarming comeback; it has never gone away. It never stopped infecting and affecting our communities. It never stopped taking our friends and loved ones. What happened is that HIV has moved from the front pages of our newspapers, from the screens of our televisions, and from the forefront of many minds, and ultimately from the pens of funders. ...

New York Times blows it when it comes to the 1978 Red Sox

adamg — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:38:23 -0400

The Gray Lady interviews Mike Torrez (about how the Yankees could still stage a comeback this year). Redsock notes Torrez got some things wrong and the Times failed to correct him - specifically, about Bill Lee and Bobby Sprowl.

Peace in our time: New York Times declares South Boston 'tamed'

adamg — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:55:19 -0400

Every June, the New York Times travel section writes about some marvelously chic little Boston neighborhood it's discovered. Last year, it declared the South End almost hip. This June, it pronounces Southie tamed, i.e., the streets are no longer lined with beefy hooligans waiting to shiv anxious-looking New Yorkers (obviously, the story was written before recent events). It's even illustrated with an ICA photo (surprise!) that's captioned:

The Institute of Contemporary Art sits on the HarborWalk, designed to reconnect the South Boston waterfront to the rest of the city.

Because, you know how difficult it was to get to Southie before the HarborWalk was completed, which, well, er, um, it hasn't been, but no matter, because until the ICA opened, a trip to Southie meant rushing in in a convoy of armored Escalades with plenty of bodyguards:

... While a few factories were converted into artists' lofts over the last two decades, it remained a seedy place. ...

Via MetaBoston

What we didn't learn from the New York Times today

adamg — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:41:35 -0500

John Daley finds it interesting that a story that ran in the Times about cities gaining populations of young people didn't have a paragraph about loser cities - which include Boston - but that the paragraph did run in other papers that carried the story.

The New York Times' weird fixation on the Red Sox

adamg — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:32:28 -0400

Mark Jurkowitz wonders if that 17% ownership of the Olde Towne Team is affecting the Times' editorial judgment, what with giving the Sox more ink over the offseason than either the Yankees or Mets and now with giving the Sox opener at Fenway better play than the Yankees opener at Yankee Stadium.

Note to Mark: It is possible to grow up in New York, indeed, to have achieved the highest goal a New York Mets fan could ever hope to accomplish (i.e., go to a game in the 1969 World Series) and still become a Red Sox fan after moving to Boston. Just open your mind and let the loooove flow into you.

Bonus disclosure fact: The checks for my Globe column actually come from the Times.