Today’s Globe features a boilerplate trend-tastic bit about Bostonians who live on boats. The piece speaks to Bostonians who live on boats, who complain about bills and sometimes tell funny stories, and cites some statistics which illustrate the trend as a growing one.
The author also has the good sense to know what to do with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Hello There Old Trend'
Globe Gets Nautical
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
A New Leader in the Stippled Portrait Clubhouse?
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Back in February, this blog noted the appearance of a kids-smoking-pipes trend story in the Wall Street Journal.
It was accompanied by one of those old-tymey stippled illustrations of a pipe – one that was captioned, simply, “PIPE.”
Today marks the appearance of a different trend, and a different inanimate object is now on the receiving end [...]
Illustration Proves Useful
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Today’s Journal features a trend-tastic piece on the hottest new hot new trend to sweep the nation’s college campuses: Smoking tobacco. From a pipe!
The article has all the hallmarks of a great trend story – a shocking lede (“Dan Nemets, a sophomore at Central Michigan University, likes the TV show Family Guy, heavy-metal musician Ozzy [...]
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