Adrian Walker, will you just shut up?

Adrian Walker has the gall today to complain that the city-council election this year is the quietest ever:

While it is tempting to blame the low-key council for at least part of the public's apparent apathy, that wouldn't be entirely fair.

Let me rewrite that sentence for you, Adrian:

While it is tempting to blame the almost non-existent coverage of the council election by the Globe and Herald for at least part of the public's apparent apathy, that wouldn't be entirely fair.

Although it would certainly be deserved. It is great that Michael Pahre at Brighton Centered and Harry Mattison at the Allston Brighton Community Blog did such wonderful jobs covering the election this year (the Tab also did a commendable job). It is just an absolute joke that daily newspapers with "Boston" in their names devoted more ink and electrons to "Britney Spears" between Sept. 1 and today (48 Globe mentions and 22 Herald mentions) than to the "Boston City Council" (9 mentions in the Globe and 9 in the Herald). Christ, the Globe couldn't even be bothered to report the results of a September preliminary election in Roxbury until FOUR days after the fact.

Yes, Adrian, it is, indeed, a shame that the biggest issue of the campaign might prove to be a couple of anonymous mail drops instead of something like crime, or education, or property taxes or even just Tom Menino. Now look in the mirror and explain to yourself how absolutely none of that is your fault.

Ed. obligatory hairshirt: I, too, did a sucky job covering the election; pretty much everything I posted consisted of links to Brighton Centered, the Allston Brighton Community Blog and the Tab, except, of course, for sentence after sentence about the anonymous mailings. My one saving grace: I'm not sitting here going "tut tut."