Friday’s big Boston Herald page-one photograph of Sen. John Kerry wiping a tear from his eye on the campaign trail yesterday was reminiscent of the act former President Clinton put on several years ago. Clinton was walking along briskly out of a funeral parlor after attending a public official’s wake when he saw a TV… Continue reading

I have written before about the tiresome Jonathan Franzen and his over-written cinder-block of a book, The Corrections. [No link; why should I encourage you?] If you can imagine someone even more self-absorbed and self-important, well, you might not be surprised to find it’s the woman who was living with him while he scrawled his… Continue reading

It was interesting to observe how the first of Sen. John Kerry’s numerous official announcements for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination was played in the local and national media today. The Boston Herald went overboard, making it the lead story and embellishing it with a flattering photograph covering two-thirds of the front page. The Boston… Continue reading

The Boston Globe’s media analyst Mark Jurkowitz coninues to demonstrate why he’s the best in the business. Today’s article was brimming with news about the Cape Cod Times’ coverage of the controversial wind farm project proposed for the Cape’s waters and several other important developments involving local media. I hope he’s appreciated on Morrissey Boulevard.

What, I asked Lorenzi, caught the pope’s interest? “Italian politics,” Lorenzi said. “And Formula One racing.” Read more, on the 25th anniversary of the election of Pope John Paul I, the “forgotten” pope.