The Chief reports that of late, whenever Dan Shaughnessy predicts or asserts something, the opposite happens:
... He clearly has mystical powers. Like George Costanza, he must be realizing that whatever his gut says will happen is 180 degrees from what is destined to occur.
Sean McCarthy looks at the schizo performances of our two dailies when it comes to bad words in recent days. "Shit" is OK in the Globe but not the Herald, while the Globe won't print "fag" but the Herald will.
... So are both papers showing inconsistencies? Or do these decisions make perfect sense? What do you think? What would you do? ...
My favorite expletive is, of course, frickin', but you don't see that much in the papers, either.
John Daley notes the oddness of a Globe editorial on political blogs that only refers to a single political blog in Florida:
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.
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:
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:
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.
At Squaring the Boston Globe, Harry reports on a tour of the Globe newsroom he had with then ombudsman Richard Chacon.
Quick! What's wrong with this sentence from the Globe's guide to a better day today?
The Thrift Shop of Boston, which is technically in Roslindale, turns 80 today.
Too hot to work! Fortunately, Brian McGrory was able to get out of the newsroom early by calling up an emergency Hingham column.
But it was fun to see McGrory obsess about how much some Hingham columnnist is obsessing about him.
Soxaholix takes note of Boston Sports Media Watch's Dan Shaughnessy write-alike contest by trying to figure out an entry:
...And his thesis will be along the lines of "Oh, you poor unwashed, unsophisticated, Boston fan fools. You drove Pedro away with your mean Puritanical spirits and the terrible things you said about him. I tried to warn you."
The Globe reports on some woman living in a tree to keep it from getting cut down. Well, OK, technically, she's not really living in it, since she comes down at 6:30 each night, but, still, the delicate Globe never tells us what she does if she needs to use the bathroom while sitting up in the tree for hours on end, eating pine needles.
Now that a marginal player from back in the day has admitted to shooting up (to a non-local media outlet), David Scott wonders if the local papers will do some investigative work:
... The Steroids Scandal has been barely played out in Boston and that needs to change.
No, not better than Shaughnessy. Exactly like Shaughnessy. At Boston Sports Media Watch, Bruce Allen is running a Shaughnessy write-alike contest:
... Next week, the New York Mets come into town, and of course with them will be Pedro Martinez. We know Shaughnessy will write a column about the return of Pedro. You probably have a good idea what it is going to read like.
So write it.
John Daley: Two headlines, two cities. He notes that while today's Herald front page looks at continuing violent crime in a Boston neighborhood, the Globe's front page examines the finances of the MSPCA.
Bruce Allen interviews Globe Sox reporter Chris Snow, leaving to become the Theo Epstein of the Minnesota Wild.
Mats Tolander explains why:
I dislike her coulmns because they rarely make much sense, and her work today is a good example.
On Squaring the Boston Globe, Harry notes that a Globe article headlined Hospital crisis has some doubting O'Malley's leadership actually only quotes one person doubting O'Malley's leadership.
David Scott rips apart this past Sunday's Globe sports section - and ponders why some reporters played up David Wells's "scab" comment without once pondering our very own homegrown scab:
... The city (and the Herald, notably) just spent a week celebrating the Biggest Little Scab of 'Em All, Disney's newest Mighty Mite, Doug Flutie. ...
Bonus disclosure fact: I covered both Doug Flutie's wedding and the opening of Flutie Pass.
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