Dear Easter Bunny,

I realize you might be hard at work right now. God knows, you work harder than just about anyone I know, except maybe John Silber's charm school coach.

Globe ombudsman Richard Chacon writes that pop-up ads will no longer appear over obituaries, "as of this month."

List of the dead.

... she walked by, completely oblivious on her iPod until she saw one of the construction workers who had been hurt having a beam lifted off of him ...

... There were white sheets covered in blood everywhere and pools of it pouring down the street. ...

... So, I was walking to my dorm from class, and I heard this HUGE crash. ...

... I can still picture the man. He wasn't cut up. Nothing was dismembered from what I can tell. He was laying across the seat, but half of his body was flat. ...

Boston LiveJournal discussion of the collapse.

... This instance of near-me-but-not-me fatality makes me thankful to be alive. ...

Photos from the scene. Even more photos.
Photos of the scene several hours later.

... I got as close as I could and it was mayhem down there ...

There but for the grace of God ...

The Globe (eyewitness accounts; MP3 audio from the scene) and the Herald (coverage; blog with eyewitness accounts) showed they can cover breaking news as it happens. At least on a weekday downtown (as opposed to a Sunday evening in Roxbury). But you'd think somebody in the boston.com newsroom might have been able to convince somebody in the ad department to turn off the "breaking glass" floating ad for a bit:

John Keith notes that even though Boston Police were fairly quick to release news of those five shootings in an hour on BPDNews, neither the Globe's nor the Herald's Web sites had anything until at least midnight, when the early Herald press run started and they posted a print story. Channel 4 did have something up by 11 p.m., along with a brief mention of a fatal stabbing on Hyde Park Avenue that BPDNews has yet to acknowledge.

Kevin McCrea, one of the plaintiffs in the open-meeting suit, posts a copy of the ruling.

He also finds it interesting that Globe reporter Andrea Estes got a copy of the ruling before any of the plaintiffs:

... Nice to know there are plenty of leaks and backroom goings on at the Superior Court Level as well.

You can almost hear the rumbling at both papers.

New York Times Co. quarterly results, which basically say: Boy, New England's sucky.

My standard newspaper disclosure.

Mark Jurkowitz writes that more cost-cutting could be looming at the Globe.

Dan Kennedy says the Globe isn't really losing readers, if you include boston.com visitors, but he cautions:

But can papers keep those readers when they continue to hack away at the journalism? Not forever. That's the dilemma.

My standard newspaper disclosure.

At mAss Backwards, Bruce is tracking how many Mucko McDermott references will appear in news accounts of that double homicide today:

... Stay tuned for the first of many Mucko McDermott references by the local news media, coming up in 10...9...8...

UPDATE: The Boston Globe strikes first. ...

Kristie Helms may have thrown the Globe across the room today - she's so upset, she's not sure.

First, she read Some women still party as if invulnerable and wonders where all the stories are about bars who hire bouncers with records.

Then she read an article about an obscure data network technology called the Usenet: