Not that you're actually going to search a newsstand for a Boston Herald, but today's front page might actually be of interest — because it's a forced apology to the New England Patriots. [E&P] The entire front page, plus part of the back sports page, is being used to say sorry for the paper's February story, which accused the NFL team of breaking league rules by videotaping the St. Louis Rams' team practices the day before the two faced off in Super Bowl XXXVI.
"While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, 2008, report on sources that it believed to be credible, we now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed," reads part of the apology. [BH]
Naturally, the paper's commenters are having a field day. CONTINUED »
Lloyd Grove wasn't the only gossip causing stares at Fox News' White House Correspondents Dinner. That honor goes to the Boston Globe Mark Shanahan, who, the Boston Herald gleefully points out, was 800 thread count sheets to the wind. CONTINUED »
BLOGGER BURNOUT Is writing words everyday becoming too much for you? The Boston Herald, the rag that's "indispensable" but "isn't a great paper," surveys a few bloggers who could be the next always-on scribes to throw in the towel. [Boston Herald]
The Boston Herald's mostly lauding editorial of Rupert Murdoch – their former owner and, supposedly, the "Robin Hood of the newspaper world" – yesterday also took the time to slam the cross-town competition: the Boston Globe's owner, the New York Times. CONTINUED »
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