Saturday, April 16, 2005

THE HIGH ROAD. Mike Barnicle makes a classy exit as a regular columnist for the financially strapped Herald, telling the Globe's Mark Jurkowitz: "I didn't want to be sitting around collecting a check from the Herald while someone who has been over there for 25 years or 25 minutes was getting laid off. I like the paper. I like the people. I wish them well."

Howie Carr, take note!

MORE ON THE SEAL HUNT THAT WASN'T. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz today weighs in on the matter of the Globe and freelancer Barbara Stewart, who was dropped after it was revealed that she'd fabricated a story on the Canadian seal hunt. So do the Herald's Brett Arends and Jay Fitzgerald. (Disclosure: Kurtz and Arends, in a sidebar, quote me.)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Re Barnicle:
If jumping before you are pushed makes one a hero, Boston these days is a veritable Iwo Jima.

Anonymous said...

BU J School against El Globo, NU J School as apologist, ooh, this is going to be good!

Steve said...

Shame on you, Dan.

The words "classy" and "Howie Carr" do not belong in the same post.

:-)

Steve said...

And another (off-topic) thing - Alterman reports that Charlie Pierce can't post on Alterman's blog anymore "as he works for a journalistic institution in Boston that has blog issues".

What's up with that?

Dan Kennedy said...

"Apologist"? Please. The seal-hunt story was one of those things that was embarrassing but not particularly serious. Frankly, I thought the Big Dig snafu was almost as embarrassing and quite a bit more serious, but Kurtz didn't ask me about that.

Anonymous said...

"...isn't there something wrong when Barnicle can come back from the dead numerous times after his downfall (his New York Daily News column, his Boston-area talk-radio show, his appearances on MSNBC, etc.), yet Patricia Smith, who was deposed by the Globe for similar transgressions, is still in the journalistic equivalent of the witness protection program?"

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Anonymous said...

Barnicle has been regurgitating the same LAME sob story/slice of America drivel for decades. His celebrity is a sad indictment of how mediocrity passes quality in this city.