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MEDIA FARM: AS THE GLOBE BURNS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 29, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

While McGrory’s staff letter noted that he “was not anticipating the situation,” only a crash test dummy hibernating in a bunker underneath the Globe’s hermetic bubble could have missed the warning shots.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Boston Globe, Boston.com, Brian McGrory, Hilary Sargent, Mass media, media, metoo, sexual harassment

HENRY NAMES WIFE NEW SOX SHORTSTOP

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 14, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

Just kidding. Boston Red Sox owner John Henry didn’t tap his wife, Linda Henry, to play shortstop or any other position at Fenway. That would be preposterous.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Boston Globe, Boston.com, John Henry, Linda Henry, media, Red Sox

DIG EXCLUSIVE: WALL BURGLARY

Written by RYAN H. WALSH Posted June 26, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

How an ‘Entourage’ poster became an obsession of Boston.com and then vanished without anyone noticing that a former ‘Jeopardy’ contestant took it home

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston.com, Entourage, India Castle, Mark Wahlberg, poster, Ryan Walsh

TRUMP TAKES DUMP IN BABY’S MOUTH, FINGERS OWN BUTTHOLE ON DEBATE STAGE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 1, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

Image by Kent Buckley

 

We’ve been trying to do big things with Media Farm. Sure, first and foremost we report from the id and sewer of the media diaspora (sorry if we used that word wrong; like most people, we don’t actually know what it means), but in recent ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: BDC, Boston.com, Donald Trump, New York Times, presidential politics

BOSTON DOT C’MON: SOMEONE HAS TO SAY OUT LOUD THE SHIT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT BOSTON’S MOST PATHETIC NEWS SITE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 22, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

I’ve been known to get inebriated with reporter friends at bars and break into soliloquies about how I would run Boston.com if I took over as its editor. Some versions involve me strolling in behind a cloud of smoke and reinstating typewriters, while other incarnations ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BDC, Boston Globe, Boston Media, Boston.com, clickbait, corporate media, Morrissey Boulevard

RIPS AND PIECES: RANDOM NEWS RANTS AND A BRIEF RETURN TO MEDIA FARM FORM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 18, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

We are no longer traveling to a certain corner of Connecticut where Boston.com Senior Writer Sara Morrison’s grandparents live.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BDC, Boston, Boston Herald, Boston.com, media, Sara Mossison, Tom Brady, Under Armour

MEDIA FARM: HERE’S WHY WE IGNORED THE #TAKEOUTGATE STORY

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 12, 2014 Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image by Scott Murry 

 

The following is a BostInnoterpolation … 

In news, December is known as the “WTF season.” Bill Cosby scares bathers at a local beach? Headlines for days. It’s no surprise Boston media were eager to jump on a story of substance that lots of people ...  read more

Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #takeoutgate, BDC, BostInno, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Boston.com, Brookline, clickbait, Dan Ruan, harvard, Harvard Business School, Hilary Sargent, Market Basket, pseudo events, racism, Sechuan Garden, T-Shirts

CLEANING OUT OUR POST-ELECTION CLOSET

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 11, 2014 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Cute dogs go viral for a change, John Oliver smacks state legislatures, Breitbart is dead but still incredibly dumb, and the Facebook movie is a lie

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mexrich, Bill Cosby, Boston.com, BPD, Breitbart, Eisenberg, Environment, First Look Media, Hannibal Burress, HBO, john oliver, Loretta Lynch, Matt Taibbi, NPR, puppy, Sorkin, The Intercept, Zuckerberg

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