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Why the Boston Globe doesn't give a damn about Boston elections anymore
By adamg on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 8:42am
Michael Pahre gets to the heart of the matter: City Editor Brian McGrory finds the City Council boring. He makes the case by digging up McGrory's old columns on Boston politics, one of which, in 2003, summed up what we can expect from a McGrory-led city desk:
Exactly one decade ago, after covering Thomas M. Menino's first election as mayor, I set a lofty journalistic goal. My goal was to never spill a drop of ink writing about the Boston City Council, because no reader with even the hint of a normal life could possibly care about the collection of political miscreants and misfits who make up that perennially underachieving group.
Earlier:
boston.com couldn't even be bothered to post results on election night.
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otoh
McGrory and Yoon slobbered all over each other in one of McGrory's last columns before he became editor.
IOW
He's a disingenuous hack of the CHB mode, who says whatever he thinks will create controversy - or won't take more than 15 minutes to write - regardless of what he's written, oh, three weeks earlier.
Newspapers' ingratiation to Council offices' sources.
News coverage of our Boston City Council is too limited by the journalists' ingratiation to their Council offices' sources.
Well isn't that nice ...
...that McGrory finds them boring. I'm so happy he feels that he can tell the rest of us what we're supposed to be interested in.
You can't argue with the
You can't argue with the "miscreants and misfits" line. Still...