Beating a dead Jack Ass
I’m getting peppered with email requests to post the full text of the Rosalie Tirella/InCity Times collum discussed here earlier this week. While the column is no longer available via the In City Times website and I will not be providing the column on this site, I will give you this link.
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Beating a dead Jack Ass - Updated
I’m getting peppered with email requests to post the full text of the Rosalie Tirella/InCity Times collum discussed here earlier this week. While the column is no longer available via the In City Times website and while I will not be providing the column on this site, I will give you this link.
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***UPDATE***
I’ve just been told that Indy Media Worcester has determined this column to be in violation of their editorial policy and will be taken down. This is unfortunate for those readers who have yet to see this amazing, vile and mostly disturbing text in full but can only be viewed a huge win for Indy Media Worcester, who may now freely claim they have higher editorial standards than In City Times. That should probably be in their masthead.
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In City Times online
In the wake of Dianne Williamsons superb slaying of local muckraker and queen of provincial douche baggery, Rosalie Tirella, it appears Rosalie is binging her In City Times online.
incitytimes.org
Interesting choice of domains, typically the .org top level domain is used by not for profits.
Well, welcome to the internet Rosalie. May you find your new online home full of goatse, lemon party and 419 scams.
While we’re on the subject of the internets, I will buy a beer for the first person who can provide me with a Rosalie Tirella themed example of ‘Rule 34′?
Daily Worcesterias take can be found here.
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How many nails does it take to shut the T&G coffin?
Amazing numbers coming from the NYT today with advertising revenue slipping another 16.2 percent. But as seems to be the case with every financial release from the Times, it’s the New England media group, which includes the Telegram, that’s sucking hardest.
The company’s flagship The New York Times paper had 15.3 percent lower ad revenue. At its New England media group, which includes The Boston Globe, July ad revenue dropped 24.5 percent.
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Worcester Magazine Sold
The Holden Landmark Corp., publisher of the Landmark, the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle, the Leominster Champion and four other publications has bought alternative weekly Worcester Magazine from Worcester Publishing Ltd.
According to Gareth Charter, Holden Landmark Corp. publisher, Landmark initiated acquisition talks. Charter and Worcester Publishing, which is owned and published by Allen W. Fletcher, “have been actively working on this for much of this year,” Charter said. “We initiated this, and we pushed it in the final stages,” he said.
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William Breault: Stupidest man in Worcester, Part 4
Worcesters favorite mustachioed super hero has taken his side show on the road. First stop The Berkshires! Ellen G. Lahr, reporter for the Berkshire Eagle, was kind enough to sit in as Breaults away team straight man for this interview and did she shine. But, as we must do in a day and age when newspapers lack funding for fact checkers, let’s pull out the red pen together and clean up Bills mistakes for the Eagle staff.
He said the decriminalization effort is at sharp odds with evidence that marijuana use, particularly among teens, carries more health risks than it did years ago, when the drug had less concentrations of THC, the main psychoactive component of pot.
What Billy means to say is, according to US Government research THC toxicity in humans would require consumption of 1500 pounds in under 15 minutes. In other words, the artificial sweetener you [...]
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A stupid week of stupid
Wow. This was a hell of a week for those of us who enjoy a good laugh at the expense of local elected officials and other public figures. At last count Worcester took exactly 32 baby steps backward this week, leaving us approximately in 1957. Good work Worcester!
Here’s the highlight reel:
Billy and Babs Up in Smoke
The Wheeler & Woolsey of the Worcester Temperance Movement, Billy Breault and Barbara Haller saw by far the most action this week. Not ones to settle with forcing a private business to pay police to patrol public ways the pair found the time to draft a letter to a whole bunch of local officials regarding the use of Narcan to keep people alive. The letter is ultimately an exercise in patience. If you could imagine an early alchemist attempting to debate a modern day theoretical physicist in the basic [...]
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The Telegrams midlife career change
It’s kind of depressing when the newspaper business has come to the point where self-deprecation is perfectly acceptable, it’s no joke. Yesterdays Dianne Williamson column in the T&G tried to make light of the troubles the newspaper business is seeing.
Since the analysts predict that newspapers may soon be obsolete, it’s time to consider a new career. The only problem is, I have no skills that would qualify me for a real job.
It always strikes me sad when I try to imagine what it must feel like to be stuck on a sinking ship. But the reality in this case is the ship didn’t get torpedoed the way many like to spin things, its sinking because the captain is asleep at the wheel.
What may be my biggest frustration where local business is concerned, is watching good business go bad and suffer simply because the owners didn’t want to [...]
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