Touchy tabloid tries to wreck Globe story
By adamg on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 8:30am
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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I'd lose the question mark on sour grapes
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.
So...
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.
Ha
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?
More importantly, do they
More importantly, do they unteach you how to avoid crashes in reporter school?
Yeah, definitely some
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.
The Herald article is
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.
translation
"We had a unspoken rule we both wouldn't spend money on real reporting anymore"
the Herald is a troll
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.
Which car ran the red light, again?
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.
This kind of deceitfulness is only ok
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.
"If he was a reporter on
"If he was a reporter on deadline..."
Dictionaries - try one.
Good point
If you stopped beating your wife tomorrow, you'd still be a wife beater.
*If* he was a serial killer,
*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?
Does he not understand how "undercover reporting" works?
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!"
The Globe editor stated
The Globe editor stated during a WGBH radio interview today that the reporter was up front with everyone involved that he was a reporter.
Except that ...
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.
Touchy, but has a point
While I agree there is some sour grapes here, the fact that Hohler gave conflicting accounts of the story seems relevant.
I'm sure there are often "two versions of what happened"
in a car crash. The question is, were there other witnesses? Who was determined to be at fault by the insurance companies or whatever?
The problem isn't that both
The problem isn't that both drivers had different versions. It's that Hohler himself gave two different versions.
Oh, I see what you're saying
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?