Morning Updates: Driving selfies, an oral history of Kevin Garnett
Good morning, Boston. Here’s what you need to know for the day ahead.
Who’s trying to convince whom here? “Olympic organizing committee Boston 2024 was invited to tell city councilors Monday about how it’s well-suited to win the right to host the 2024 Summer Games. But some councilors were more interested in whether the city should even want to host.’’ (Boston.com) With Boston’s hesitating support, the USOC is leaving open the possibility of a changeup. “Right now the USOC is going through a similar vetting process to make sure Boston is the right city,’’ said Angela Ruggiero, a US women’s hockey team gold medalist and a member of the USOC and the IOC. “So there’s no guarantee Boston will be the city in September.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Critiquing the governor’s MBTA review: “The study’s declarations of eye-popping worker absenteeism — far worse than in other cities — appear overstated, a Globe analysis found. … ‘I categorically reject the charges that the panel’s numbers were not true,’ said Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack. ‘You want to fight about whether 9 percent of the workforce is out on any given day, 10 percent of the workforce is out on any given day, or 11 percent of the workforce is out on any given day?’’’ (The Boston Globe)
The Internet is not forever: The alt-weekly Boston Phoenix closed shop in 2013. Now, some online archives aren’t loading and articles are disappearing or difficult to find. “There’s this fiction that because everything is online now, that it’s going to be online forever and that it leads to a democratization of history,’’ [ex-editor-in-chief Carly] Carioli said. “But in practice, so much of the Web is even more ephemeral than legacy media, because the only places that can really afford to digitize and maintain their archives are big legacy media companies.’’ (Columbia Journalism Review)
Don’t selfie-and-drive, duh: “A survey released this morning shows that many motorists have expanded their behind-the-wheel activities beyond texting to include using Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter, taking selfies and even shooting videos. … ‘One in 10 say they do video chat while driving. I don’t even have words for that,’ said Lori Lee, AT&T’s senior executive vice president for global marketing.’’ (The New York Times)
The oral history of Kevin Garnett: Here’s what Celtics great Paul Pierce has to say about his fellow NBA star: “He’s gonna eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Every game. We didn’t even have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches until he got to Boston. So then he made our ballboys make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for everybody. When KG was eating them, everybody started eating them.’’ (Bleacher Report)
The Goodbye:
The USS Constitution is guided into a dry dock in Boston for a three-year major restoration project.
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