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.
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Too much
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:
Chappaquiddick.
Chappaquiddick.
Hmmm ...
Can we come up with a form of Godwin's Law for Chappy references?
I think
Maybe it's a social disease. We should encourage anon to see a urologist.