BostonNow? More like BostonYesterday. Today's paper has not a word about last night's Dorchester shootout in which both a cop and a suspect got shot. Metro, at least, managed to get three paragraphs and a photo on the front page.

More headline goodness: Spatch analyzes the front pages today of all four of Boston's dailies.

My standard newspaper disclosure.

Hey, gang, they're hiring a copy editor.

Via Sean McCarthy, who, at no charge, copy edits the mistakes in the ad.

I've done enough copy editing to last me a lifetime, thank you very much.

Earlier:
Bosotn Now: The Paper Of Rceord.

Susan Kaup of Exploit Boston is moving to BostonNow to help manage the paper's community efforts.

Lisa Williams, who helped put Watertown on the online map and who has been doing some consulting at boston.com, reports she'll have some big news to report next week at a publisher's confab in Miami:

... It's bigger than HAM! Bigger than CHEESE! Bigger than HAM AND CHEESE COMBINED! AND TOASTED! ...

And don't much truck with newspapers that try to skimp on the copy editing and fact checking, so don't be surprised if they start a discussion with a title like Bosotn Now: The Paper Of Rceord.

It would be a mistake for me to omit my newspaper disclosure.

Not yet a full-fledged cat fight because one of the parties has yet to say anything publicly. Anyway, file this under "how quickly they forget." And file this, by the same reporter, under "Really, he should know better."

And file this under "disclosure."

Mike Mennonno wonders if the paper can overcome the "trifle" factor - the fact that Bostonians are trained to see free papers as something good only for a quick read on the T - and if it can dial down its serialized novelette:

... "One cannot, he thinks, separate ice from the heat that thaws it," eh? That's some heavy shit for a morning commute, dude.

Russel Pergamint and John Wilpers have big plans for their upcoming blog-enriched BostonNOW paper (which launches April 17) - they hope to use it as a template to expand to another eight to ten cities within four years.

Only it seemed to feature at most three actual bloggers. In any case, Mike Mennonno went to BostonNOW's event the other day and files a pretty comprehensive report and analysis - in which he questions whether the whole blogger/media thing will work as print editors want it to work, in part because the paper won't use any content from sites that are "biased," which might seem to rule out pretty much every blog.