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Touchy tabloid tries to wreck Globe story

Sour grapes at the Herald? With bonus gratuitous quote from some lawyer making accusations with no apparent facts behind them:

If he was a reporter on deadline and he's distracted and making phone calls and texting, then that's something that adds to his fault. You're not supposed to be distracted in a cab, you're supposed to focus fully on your job," said Douglas Sheff, a Boston personal injury lawyer and president-elect of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Does the esquire have any proof the reporter was on deadline and making phone calls and texting right before the crash? If so, he and the Herald failed to produce it.

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Let's see....an ambulance chaser and the subject of the Globe's investigation, an owner at Boston Cab (and owner of black car service Boston Car Service)Brett Barenholtz have a problem with the Globe's ethics.

No...no sour grapes here. Howie Carr was going to write a story like the one the Globe did on cabbies, but between the liposuction, hair transplants and designing refrigerator magnets for his new book, he just didn't have the time.

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if Hohler was actually "unqualified" to drive a cab, and the company hired him anyway doesn't that just highlight the shadiness of the company? I mean... bringing up the fact that this guy WHO WAS DRIVING A CAB was unqualified suggests that the hiring practices are ridiculous.

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Wasn't a "professional" cab driver. Pretty sure he said he drove cabs before he became a reporter, and I'm 100% sure he had a valid driver/hackney license. How is actually being a reporter relevant? Do they teach you how to avoid crashes in cabbie school? Was he typing up the first paragraph of the story when he was hit?

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More importantly, do they unteach you how to avoid crashes in reporter school?

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Yeah, definitely some jealousy/inadequacy issues here with the Herald. Kind of like the little brother who feels like he can never live up to his successful big brother's accomplishments.

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The Herald article is ridiculous and they're just attempting to piggyback off of the Globe's excellently revealing story.

The Globe reporter who got into the accident while on assignment was a cabbie during his college days to earn some money on the side. He had experience, and was no more less skilled than any other civilian jackass driving around the city.

To become a cabbie again, he had to pass the same test that any other cabbie in the city is required to take. Obviously there is no proof that the cab driver/reporter was texting, on his phone or recording notes in any way, shape or form.

Bottom line is, the accident occurred when another car ran a red light and struck the cab the reporter was driving. It could've been anyone, but happened to be that cab, which turned out to be a massive coincidence.

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"We had a unspoken rule we both wouldn't spend money on real reporting anymore"

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They are like these trolls that throw out unsubstantiated 'facts' and allegations to drum up page views, and success is measured in how many people screamed in their comments section in reaction to their what ifs posited as facts.

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I mean, I see "qualified" cab drivers do it all the time, but I believe it wasn't the "Globe/NYT" cabbie that did it this particular time.

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if you're trying to expose villains like ACORN, preferably dressed as a pimp. It's shameful to pull this kind of caper on a poor, unsuspecting, apparently corrupt millionaire like Tutunjian and his enablers at the BPD, DA's office, and City Hall.

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"If he was a reporter on deadline..."

Dictionaries - try one.

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If you stopped beating your wife tomorrow, you'd still be a wife beater.

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*If* he was a serial killer, he should be sent to prison for life.

*If* he has bad teeth, he should get to a dentist posthaste.

*If* he was playing Barry Manilow songs on the radio, someone should ask him to change the station.

Isn't it fun to make things up, and put an if in front of them?

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It's where you make sure no one around you knows you're a reporter.

"Hey, I'm totally a legit cabbie, but let me whip out my reporter's notebook in the cab garage and use my Bluetooth headset to call my editors while I'm hanging around. Nope, I'm not a reporter, not at all- just a cabbie!"

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The Globe editor stated during a WGBH radio interview today that the reporter was up front with everyone involved that he was a reporter.

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Hohler says in a Globe video interview that the Boston police knew who he was but the cab company didn't. Guess it depends on your definition of undercover.

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While I agree there is some sour grapes here, the fact that Hohler gave conflicting accounts of the story seems relevant.

But a Boston police report doesn’t paint the crash as so clear-cut. “At the scene there were two versions of what had happened,” according a police report.

Hohler initially told cops that “while he had a red light,” another car “came out of nowhere” and struck the left side of his cab, causing him to slam into a traffic light, according to the report.

But in a handwritten supplemental police report filed six days later, Hohler said he in fact had a green light and the other driver had run a red light, citing “confusion on the scene” to explain the “misinformation.”

The other motorist, driving a gray Nissan Maxima, told police he believed he had the green light all along and instead was struck by the cab, according to the first police report. As of yesterday, no one had been cited in the crash, according to state Registry of Motor Vehicles officials.

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in a car crash. The question is, were there other witnesses? Who was determined to be at fault by the insurance companies or whatever?

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The problem isn't that both drivers had different versions. It's that Hohler himself gave two different versions.

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What threw me off was the "at the scene" part- how does "at the scene" = "handwritten report filed six days later"? So maybe there were three versions of the story, two from Hohler and one from the other driver?

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