Dan Secatore contrasts Globe and MassLive.com coverage of Devers's reaction to Yet Another Loss and finds the Globe published a good in-the-locker-room look at why Devers might have spent 40 minutes staring at his locker while MassLive published a pointless whine about the ballplayer who wouldn't talk to reporters.
Miles Grant notes the odd exclusion in a Globe list of "10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend" - they have "Monsters, Inc.," but not anything like, oh, "Norma Rae" or "On the Waterfront." Fortunately, people of a more labor-ish bent on Labor Day have Deadline's list of "15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes."
A soaked resident filed a 311 complaint about the water feature that GBH is now running nightly along the sidewalk outside its studios at Guest and Market streets in Brighton: Read more.
RadioInsight reports that the Beasley Media Group is for some no doubt very important reasons, swapping its current Bloomberg business talk at 1330 AM with its classic-rock WBOS at 92.9 FM, so you'll get the latest market updates in stereo and Metallica sounding like it's coming to you via a Radio Shack Flavoradio.
Adam 12 has to break it all down for you, so you won't have to miss a moment of Dave and Chuck the Freak come the switchover midday on Sept. 3
GBH announced today it's teaming up with public-radio stations in Springfield and the Cape to report on news from the Berkshires to Provincetown. Read more.
Martin Evans compares Boeing's quality-control issues with GBH's recent and "shameful" layoffs and show terminations, says both have lost sight of their "core competencies:" Read more.
WBZ's morning anchor Kate Merrill hadn't been on the air in a couple weeks and now the station says she's left of her own volition - just three months after she celebrated her 20th year there.
The station has already scrubbed her from its Web site. Her fans are not happy with the station.
GBH has posted details of its cuts today: 31 people were laid off and Greater Boston, Talking Politics and Basic Black shows are being taken off the air. Read more.
Jim Braude opened his Boston Public Radio show this morning with the news.
Bruce Mohl, who goes back to the days when CommonWealth was a quarterly print journal, wrote today he will be stepping down later this year.
I’m not sure what I will do next, but I hope it’s as interesting and fun as what I do now.
Kim Tunnicliffe reports she was laid off from WBZ Newsradio today "due to corporate budget cuts." She'd been there for 26 years.
WBUR self reports the NPR news station says two dozen employees have applied for buyouts and that the station plans to lay off seven and eliminate nine currently vacant positions, all by June, in an effort to cut $4 million from its budget due to a decline in sponsorships. Competing GBH is also looking at possible cuts.
Liam Martin, who had been the morning anchor at WBZ, explains why he quit: The job was keeping him from his family:
It was a spectacular, sunny day on Cape Cod. And yet I was devastatingly sad. While my kids and wife were happily getting ready for the beach, gathering our sandcastle tools and packing up peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and juice boxes, I had quietly stepped outside as I had several times over the past few months - to cry privately. Secretly.
The Globe today has has an editorial about the supposed dangers of a legal cottage industry in suits over what some organizations may or may not be doing with data from Facebook "tracking pixels." As Dan Kennedy notes, the editorial lists some examples, but omits one very close to home: The Globe itself settled just such a suit (and so we got a payment for $158.03 in February).
WBZ reports on the life and death of Sarah-Ann Shaw, a Roxbury native who became the city's first Black woman TV reporter.
Fitzgerald wrote for the Herald for 40 years, starting in sports and later shifting to opinion.
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