Take this headline on Channel 4's Web site (please):
Ed. blecch note: If you actually click on that link, one guess what'll be the first thing you see.
Take this headline on Channel 4's Web site (please):
Ed. blecch note: If you actually click on that link, one guess what'll be the first thing you see.
Michael Page details how WBZ and WFXT will start sharing resources - like a helicopter and, eventually, videotaping of press conferences and the like. Page adds Channel 4 is hopeful other Boston stations will join the arrangement, which one supposes could eventually mean six reporters providing different narration for the same exact footage, at least until the news directors realize that's pretty wasteful and decide to fire everybody on staff except for one camera person and an intern. Or something.
Thanks to JohnWBZ's Twitter feed, you don't really have to watch Channel 4's report on the Tobin Bridge:
Ron Sanders is answering the question: When will all that construction be done on the Tobin Bridge? Short answer: never.
Because, really, what more do you need to know?
Globe unions rally at Faneuil Hall today at noon, with support from a whole lot of local politicians.
Paula Ebben at Channel 4 wonders if it's seemly for a newspaper to seek help from the people it normally covers or whether it makes sense for politicians to show support "for a huge local business and employer under siege by an out-of-state owner?"
Channel 4 is streaming its race coverage - but only for us New Englanders (the rest of the world, and New Englanders with non-New England IP addresses, have to follow along on Twitter).
Steve Garfield's BU journalism students are streaming, Twittering, photographing live.
And, of course, the Globe's there.
The Globe reports.
Glick talks to Sal from Peabody:
Dave Maynard drops in on Glick:
Three more samples of Glick's work from Northeast Air Checks (requires RealPlayer):
Like, oh my God, Massport is paying for dry cleaning for employees! Channel 4 breathlessly reports the story and Jim Aloisi pretends to be absolutely shocked at the outrage.
Unfortunately, it only works for weather forecasters on TV. Oh, and traffic reporters:
Does anybody in Boston TV actually take the T?
In a story about the alleged grampa groper, Channel 4 said he was caught on the MBTA commuter train. In its story, Channel 5 said he was caught on an Orange Line trolley.
Surprisingly, the Pervo Post, um, the Herald, has yet to report on the arrest.
Bruce Wall is now all but promising some excitement on Friday, Feb. 27, when Lovell Dyett supporters show up on Soldiers Field Road to demand Dyett be moved to a time slot where most people are awake enough to hear him. He's claiming WBZ has told him he and his followers are not welcome on its property and that:
Pastor Wall is concerned that his planned peaceful rally could turn ugly and this is not what he wants his people to encounter. He does not want people to be hurt if the WBZ security and Boston Police start to haul people away.
Because, you know, there's absolutely no nearby public space, like, oh, a public park and parking lot where protesters could show WBZ their feelings.
This morning, the Mouth that Roared declared that nobody cares what he's doing every minute of the day. And I couldn't help but agree: I don't care what he's doing every minute of the day.
Of course, Keller said that in the context of being roughly the 74,000th media pundit to sneeringly declare his disdain for people who use Twitter, because if he doesn't get it, there's obviously something wrong with it.
Twitter this, Mr. Keller.
Lovell Dyett supporters don't think much of the way WBZ brought him back - via a taped 30-minute show airing at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The Rev. Bruce Wall reports the Friends of Lovell Dyett are planning a protest march on Friday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. around the 'BZ studios at 1170 Soldiers Field Rd.
[WBZ Program Director] Peter Casey is saying, by his actions, that he does not care what we have to say and that he will do what he wants to do. It is time that we take a stand and fight for a man who has fought for us.
And he kept shuffling papers and he was unable to finish his anecdotes, he'd sound like Bob Lobel did doing the sports this morning on WBZ.
Bob Lobel will be doing the morning drive-time sports reports on WBZ next week, we hear. It's not a permanent thing (at least, not yet).
A little bird chirps in our ear that management just let staff know that LeVeille is returning. The station had dropped the overnight host earlier this month to save money, but apparently decided it couldn't argue with the hundreds of people who barraged station management with letters and e-mail.
The Salem News interviews Generosa Aiello on her sadness at the loss of Steve Leveille:
... Aiello, a chatty 96-year-old, phoned the station every Friday morning between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. for the past 30 years. Her weekly discussions earned the great-grandmother a following of her own. ...