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When Bostonist read last week that Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca and Boston business guy Jack Connors were leading a group to purchase the Boston Globe and involve a "nonprofit foundation" to run the paper, we asked the following question: "So, the Globe gets sold and still doesn't make money?" In the Herald today, Mike Barnicle Jayson Blair Howie Carr began his column with the following statement: "Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought The Boston Globe already was a nonprofit newspaper."
We realize Howie is getting paid by doing whatever he calls what he does. Bostonist is cool with putting the spotlight on the rampant waste in government by exposing "hacks". It is suprising that he penned an entire column without once using the h-word. The toll this took on his product today is obvious. We have examples, too.
- He indicts some of the Globe staffers as "blow-in drifters from New York" who don't know their way around the city. Naturally, Howie followed that up by attacking potential local owners Globe suitors Pagliuca and Connors, who certainly know their way around Boston.
- Local businessman Joe O'Donnell gets thrown into the messed-up mix en route to Howie being upset that people have to prove they are old enough to buy alcohol at sportng events. Does he know that society usually tries to deter minors from drinking beer. Laws are such a drag.
Bostonist is thrilled that Howie Carr apparently reads us. A little love when borrowing wouldn't hurt, would it?
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I think you're giving yourself a little bit too much credit. Howie, despite being pretty much a 1-trick pony (anti-mass-gov) is a pretty excellent wordsmith.
Also, his Whitey book, The Brothers Bulger, is an excellent read. Should be on the Boston required reading list with All Souls.
I know :)
Number 1... Your entire industry is a copycat industry. My RSS feeder is filled with rehashed, reworded blogs, columns and rants. Bostonist included. I prune on a regular basis because of this very issue.
Number 2... it cracks me up to hear the clear and excruciating pain in your voice when you begrudgingly give.... credit?... to Howie for pointing out what EVERYONE ELSE IN MASS. is afraid to... Corruption. It's so.... so hard to say he is right about something isn't it.