Kevin Cullen on being a foreign correspondent

By adamg - 6/26/08 - 9:54 am

Cullen sure makes it sound like fun. A pity the Globe doesn't have any foreign bureaus anymore, since it seems like he'd enjoy that more than writing about boring local stuff.

Comments

Cullen has lost his mind

By adamg - 6/26/08 - 11:33 am

Over at Boston magazine, Joe Keohane posits that Cullen snapped after another Boston Maggie writer criticized him and now he's either writing as bad and irrelevantly as possible or he's just waiting for that next Patented Cullen Column to fall in his lap:

Perhaps a one-armed Irish immigrant whose church was closed down right before his beloved dog, named after both Bertie Ahern and the Boston Red Sox, got inoperable cancer and made him think of his wife, a lowly washerwoman, but proud, God bless 'er.

Kevin Cullen

By Buhdayduh - 6/26/08 - 12:21 pm

I'm sure a police-radio blogger and a Boston Magazine watch salesman have the journalism experience to replace him.

Certainly

By adamg - 6/26/08 - 12:24 pm

Never underestimate the value of a good police radio - or a good watch.

There is a great deal of

By anon (not verified) - 6/27/08 - 12:14 pm

There is a great deal of anti-Irish sentiment in the various attacks on Cullen. I wonder if that type of commentary would fly against other ethnic or racial groups.

Anti-Irish?

By adamg - 6/27/08 - 12:20 pm

No, more like anti columnist who makes a point of constantly bringing up Ireland and its hatred of the Germans and its wonderful prime minister who would've drunk Reagan under a table and its silly highway engineers who build stupid tunnels but at least the tunnels don't kill anybody, oh yeah, and its snot-green sea, when none of that really has anything to do with Boston.

It'd be like, oh, Yvonne Abraham giving us column after column about all the fascinating people and things in Australia.

Anti-laziness, not anti-Irish

By Ron Newman - 6/27/08 - 12:23 pm

I'd just like him to do his job as a metro columnist.

Dear Boston Globe

By Gareth - 6/26/08 - 12:41 pm

Dear Boston Globe Readers:
The newspapers over here are so, so much better than they are in Boston.
-Kevin Cullen

Dear Boston Globe Colleagues:
The writers are better too, wittier, braver, more literate, and more professional.
-Kevin Cullen

Dear Boston Globe Editors:
The British tabloids break news better, and are more restrained at the same time.
-Kevin Cullen

...

Dear Momo:
Here's 10,000 deutsche marks to make sure Kevin Cullen doesn't get on that plane.
-Anonymous