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Michele McPhee couldn't stay away from the written word, it seems. She's signed on with Boston Magazine's Boston Daily and her first post today is a fun one, unless your name is Tom Menino:

Kevin MacCurtain, the department's highest ranking uniformed officer, will boycott the mayor's state-of-the-city address tonight, in solidarity with the firefighters who will be picketing the speech to protest their lack of a contract (no word if they plan to spit at members of Menino's family again). MacCurtain reports (for now, at any rate) to Commissioner Rod Fraser.

The mayor doesn't take kindly to managers who disagree with him; just ask Bernie Margolis.

Joe Keohane has the scoop on Michele McPhee's impending move to WTKK - which recently let her go to make room for tired Don Imus (and pal Barnicle).

Adam Reilly reports on rumors swirling around Michele McPhee.

So Michele McPhee of the Herald aplogized for what she said the other day on WTKK about gay men and little boys. Dan Kennedy considers the odd Herald story about the apology, which never says exactly what it was that got her in trouble, but which has been reported by other media outlets:

If the Boston Herald is going to report on Michele McPhee's on-air apology for seeming to draw a relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia, shouldn't the paper also report what she was apologizing for?

Possible dust-up brewing over what she may have said on WTKK about gays liking little boys. Some think she called gay men pedophiles; she basically says she was talking about the preference of gay fashion designers for stick-figure women with boy-like physiques, although it's hard to say for sure since the reporter of the piece says she said it "off the record" (dude: if somebody tells you something is "off the record," it means they're telling you they don't want it in the story; although you'd think McPhee would know better than to say anything she doesn't want quoted to a reporter).

John Daley, one of Boston's Finest, takes issue with a Herald story in which a New York cop is allowed to wax outraged in anonynimity about some Boston Police event that he has nothing to do with:

... Why the need for anonymity and why did the reporter let them have it? What is it about a comment on an event by a much smaller organization four hundred miles away that requires someone to hide their identity? Is it merely for the chance to slam another police department? ...

My standard newspaper disclosure.