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Two Funerals and Awaiting
Today’s local dailies have – wait for it – very different takes on the disposition of suspected Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body. Start – where else? – with the Boston Herald’s front page:...
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Baby I Won’t Drive Your Carr (Peter Gelzinis Edition)
All the while self-styled vigilante John Martorano has occupied center stage in the James “Whitey” Bulger trial this week, he’s been joined at the hit – sorry, hip – with Boston Herald scribbler Howie...
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Globe: No Problem with Walsh’s Koh Dependency
According to today’s Boston Globe, Mayor-elect Marty Walsh has named a “relative political outsider” who is “relatively young” as his City Hall wingman – and that’s all good. Walsh announces his chief...
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Walsh Inaug: Herald Trumps Globe in Local Crookerati
Both local dailies did a good job covering Marty Walsh’s inauguration as Boston’s 48th (or 54th or 58th) mayor. The Boston Globe gave it it nearly four full pages in the A section, along with the...
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One Town, Two Different Worlds (Jeremiah Oliver Edition)
Page One Pop Quiz: Which of the local dailies has already made up its mind about this story? Boston Globe: Boston Herald: Answer: That’s right. The Herald.
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Boston Dailies Are Papal Tigers
From our Santo Subito! desk The local dailies both play the home-away game in their coverage of this weekend’s Saintorama in the Eternal City. Start, naturally enough, with Page One of the Boston...
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Herald Front Page Hits the Trifecta
The Boston Herald is at its most Heraldish today, with a trio of Page One stories that feature drugs, crime, greed, and, well, TV. For our money, the best of the bunch is this one: No love lost...
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Hark! The Herald! (Whole in Their Head Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk The selfie local tabloid seems determined to run a Whole Foods/Herald story as often as possible. It started with this piece last Wednesday. Whole Foods design honors Herald...
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Boston Herald’s Gelzinis Nails Lyin’ Brian Williams
At this point, it’s really Cryin’ Brian Williams, as the NBC anchor gets pummeled from all sides for fabricating a harrowing tale of danger during hisIraq war coverage in 2003. Typical of today’s...
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The Essential Difference Between the Boston Dailies
From our One Towne, Two Different Worlds desk As the hardreading staff has (we trust) dutifully noted, the local dailies rarely see eye-to-eye on any particular story. Yesterday was no exception. But...
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