Loose ends: winter holiday edition!

Published Dec 26 2007, 05:33 PM by Adam Reilly

--I used to think Mitt Romney was going to get the Republican nomination and win the presidency. Now I think he'll be out of the race come February. Three things changed my mind: this devastating scoop from my colleague David Bernstein; the Romney Camp's embarrasing, halting, postmodern response to said scoop; and this damning editorial from the Concord Monitor. (I knew Romney had a penchant for stupid mistakes, but man oh man....)

--Any journalism students out there? Maybe you should think about sportswriting.

--Lest there be any confusion, today's Joe Fitzgerald column isn't just a string of disjointed old memories. It's a string of disjointed old memories with a closing plug for ex-Celtic coach K.C. Jones's new CD. Here's my favorite part:

[Ted] Williams was talking with Bobby Orr about salmon fishing just before he spotted Sinatra.

"Hey," he hollered, in a voice that dwarfed all others, "there are two people I've always wanted meet: you and Herbert Hoover!

--Finally, fervent thanks to both Michael Paulson and the Globe's editorial higher-ups for Ma Siss's Place, the multipart series on a Dorchester chop shop-turned-evangelical church. There's a lot to like about this series, which concludes today: it's a deep examination of an undercovered Boston neighborhood; an unusual take on evangelicalism; the kind of narrative nonfiction you usually see in magazines, not newspapers; a study in Web-based content complimenting what's in print. And I'm probably missing a few things. Great stuff. More, please.

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Parsimonious said:

Ma Siss - four days of it in the daily Globe ?

I think your point "narrative nonfiction you usually see in magazines, not newspapers" is spot on...doesn't the Globe publish its' own Magazine ? Long-form pieces like this, which are not "news", why not put in the Magazine...better than the advertising collections for overpriced goods we have become used to seeing in Magazine lately. Besides, more people subscribe to Sunday edition than daily.

The Globe should do more of this, but at that length, there is an alternative they could use.

December 27, 2007 3:20 PM

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