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Guess boston.com visitors will have to wait until tomorrow to find out about the Forest Hills shooting
By adamg on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 8:44pm
The online staff seems to have left for the day (save for the Extra Bases guy). As I type, it's 8:35 p.m. and there's nothing on boston.com about a 3 p.m. shooting across from the Forest Hills T stop that lots of people saw, heard or watched the aftermath of (many because Washington Street/Hyde Park Avenue traffic was all messed up).
Channel 4 had something up pretty quickly after the shooting (Channel 4 is generally excellent at such stuff); Channel 5 wasn't all that far behind and a Herald editor was blogging about it not far after them. I had something up in an hour or so, but only because I happened to be getting out of Forest Hills station (returning from a meeting) just as the ambulance was driving away with the victim.
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I was wondering about the
I was wondering about the absence on boston.com too.. especially since I checked their website at 8pm
A day later and in the New England News Briefs section
the Jamaica plain shooting shows up.
boston.com/news/...shooting_in_jamaica_plain/
Note to Boston Globe: Yup, JP is in NE. But, more importantly, JP IS IN BOSTON - you know - the city whose name appears on your masthead.
Compare to the Herald's coverage
Cops nab suspected gang chief
A suspect police say is a major player in one of the Hub’s most notorious gangs has been collared after a man was blasted in a daylight drive-by shooting in Forest Hills yesterday.
Only quibble: It's LUcerne, not LAcerne.
two random attacks on people in pick-up trucks
two attacks in as many days on men in pick-up trucks in JP. no news from any sources about the identity of the victims, relationship to alleged attackers. in fact, no news at all.
News about the Forest Hills shooting
See the link above for the Herald story (no identity of the guy who got shot, but at least they get the rest of the story). And that really is why it's good this is a two-newspaper town.