Watching the frenzied coverage of Hurricane Isabel by TV reporters during the past week as the storm plodded its path up the South Atlantic Ocean to the Carolina coast, most viewers must have wondered whether the television legmen had ever been in a big storm before. While Isabel didn’t live up to television’s hopes and… Continue reading

amNew York, the new, free commuter tabloid that is slated to begin publishing in NYC in January, is certain to cut substantially into the circulations of the New York Daily News and the New York Post—Gotham’s reigning tabloids. According to Boston Globe media watchguard Mark Jurkowitz, the Empire State venture is being launched by Russel… Continue reading

Today’s big Boston Globe feature in its on-going promotion of the zealots who supposedly have been living in a tree on Wachusett Mountain to prevent development of a 1,500 foot ski trail there, prompts one to wonder why the Globe doesn’t take and publish photos of them during the night while they are asleep in… Continue reading

Those photos of Jennifer Lopez, Venus Williams and an assortment of other scantily-clad women who feature the double-truck page running in today’s Boston Herald “Edge” section indicate Publisher Pat Purcell plans to transform his daily tabloid into a “girlie” publication of sorts. The competing Boston Globe won’t join the Herald’s sex ploy!

How about today’s full-page feature leading the Globe’s Living Arts Section which focuses on a self-styled Somerville “artist” who is waging a PR campaign against the SUV motor vehicle? Two things struck me about the story: 1. The artist has a lot of time and money as well as little to do these days. 2.… Continue reading