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Dirty Laundry: Covering Ted Kennedy's brain tumor

Former Herald reporter Ed Cafasso dissects the Kennedy media frenzy of the past few days, and predicts that once every last Hyannisport resident is interviewed about their neighbor that we'll see three more types of stories: the Teddy-as-sinner story, the "What did Kennedy insiders know and when did they know it?" story and the media teeth-gnashing story:

... Reporters interview other reporters and journalism professors to figure out if they went overboard in their coverage. Here's a tip: If you feel compelled to do a story examining whether you should have done all the stories you did, then it's safe to say you should have chosen not to do some of them in the first place. ...

Via Don Martelli.

Too much

By adamg | Wed, 05/21/2008 - 8:34pm

Ari Herzog notes the Globe dedicated five reporters and two stringers to its 1,600-word story on Kennedy today and requests the paper stop burying the still very much alive senator:

... The man is far from dying or he wouldn't have been discharged.

Let's honor him, not write a mammoth story as if he was dead or removed from office.

Chappaquiddick.

By anon (not verified) | Thu, 05/22/2008 - 3:13pm

Chappaquiddick.

Hmmm ...

By SwirlyGrrl | Thu, 05/22/2008 - 3:15pm

Can we come up with a form of Godwin's Law for Chappy references?

I think

By Gareth | Thu, 05/22/2008 - 3:18pm

Maybe it's a social disease. We should encourage anon to see a urologist.

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