Mike Mennonno educates the local media on how to pronounce the first name of the Man Who Would Save Fenway:

... It's as if no one at the news station knows any Japanese or Japanese-American people--in a supposedly world-class city like Boston--that they could call up and ask, "am I getting this right?" World class, guys! ...

Anybody who's followed my writing (yeah, both of you) knows I don't much care for Jon Keller. But give the man his due: He has Boston roots. On his daily gaseous exhalation on WBZ radio this morning, he twice referred to a certain murder trial as being "down the Cape." Something to talk about around the bubbla.

No, me neither. But apparently, Channel 38 thinks somebody has, because Lobel and weatherdude Ken Barlow are swapping jobs for the next couple of nights on the 9:30 p.m. news, Jesse Noyes reports.

Will sue WRKO if he doesn't get his job back, but in exchange for his job, willing to undergo sensitivity training and give Grace Ross an hour a week on the air.

Seems the woman who fired DePetro for calling Ross a "fat lesbian" had argued a couple years ago that it was perfectly acceptable to call Hillary Clinton a "fat bitch".

The Herald's Greg Gatlin reports the radio station says nuh-uh:

Carpundit has had enough of the Herald's endless series on the guy with the stapled stomach:

Enough with the stupid fat guy ... Shut up and go away already.

If nothing else, Michael Gee has a way with the insults:

Brian McGrory remains an arrogant, patronizing jackass whose political knowledge could fit in a thimble with room left over for a double Scotch. ...

He bases this renewed opinion on this column in which our boy expresses sadness that Kerry Healey didn't take his advice about chugging down more Coke while mussing her hair.

It's not just that the Globe dedicated FIFTEEN reporters, photographers and editors to its list of the 25 most allegedly stylish people in Boston. Or that it was spread over six pages (with four pages of non-stylish reviews weirdly stuck in the middle). Or that they somehow decided that city Councilor Michael Ross is more dapper than city Councilor John Tobin. No, what really got me about the whole thing was the intro (print only):

Charles Foster Kane would have thought the last people to attack somebody over a botched joke would be Dennis and Callahan:

... You'll recall they are the geniuses behind the racist comments about Metco gorillas waiting for buses, but of course they say they were misintrepreted. So, since they're unwilling to believe Kerry was making a joke I don't buy their excuses either. Both of them are lying, racist, scumbags if one is to apply the same standard to them that they are now applying to John Kerry.

Did Jack Welch and Jack Connors' bid for the Globe just coincidentally coincide with that letter from Ted Kennedy supporting Globe union workers? John Ellis writes in the Wall Street Journal there may be a link - Harry at Squaring the Boston Globe summarizes for those of us who don't have WSJ subscriptions.