It seems like whenever I blog about, speak about or read a Kevin Cullen column, I write, say or think to myself, “man, this is his best one yet.”
It will be hard to top this.
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It seems like whenever I blog about, speak about or read a Kevin Cullen column, I write, say or think to myself, “man, this is his best one yet.”
It will be hard to top this.
Whoever came up with the tongue-in-cheek talking fish advertisements on MBTA trains for Legal Sea Foods should be given a nice fat raise, maybe an award and certainly a promotion after the Boston Globe put them on page one and Fox 25 ran a two-minute video package focusing on the ads.
You can’t buy ad space on page one of the Globe. But Legal found out a way to get it there.
The news stories focused on minor controversy that arose when a T conductor complained about an ad that said “This conductor has a face like a halibut.”
Now Legal Sea Foods and its family ownership can smile because this is the best ad campaign they’ve ever run and everyone in the region knows about it.
If you read one thing today, make it Kevin Cullen’s column in The Boston Globe.
Matt Peckham wrote an excellent post Friday which touches on the status of this country, our stance on violence, video games and sexuality, citing Tom Brokaw’s remarks that video games and blogs were “cancerous.”
Talking to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Brokaw reacted to the shooting at the Nebraska mall in a way that I simply consider dangerous, especailly for someone who calls himself a journalist and a free-speech advocate.
HH: Do you not think it’s going to incite other people to try to do the same thing?
TB: No, I don’t. I think…to get back to something we were talking about earlier in general thematic terms, I don’t think we’re doing a very good job about talking about violence in this country, either. You know, Virginia Tech went away. We didn’t have any ongoing dialogue in our communities or on the air about the corrosive effect of violence. It was not what he, what people saw of him on the air that will drive them, it’s what they read in blog sites, and what they see in video games. It’s that kind of stuff that I think is cancerous. And I’m a free speech absolutist, but I think that at the same time, we have to have free speech in some kind of a context. And part of that context is a discussion of the possible effects of it.
For SHAME Tom…
This is why blogs exist — to further free speech and give all people a voice that anyone is free to analyze for themselves.
And great job Matt for bringing this to the spotlight.