Bite Size News, February 5: Fired! Edition

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  • Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis fired Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer who referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey." [Boston Globe]
  • The White House says President Obama plans to meet with the Dalai Lama later this month. No date was announced, however the Dalai Lama is expected to be in Washington, D.C. on February 17-18. China is displeased. [CBS News]
  • Jeff Vinik, a Red Sox minority owner and former manager of the Magellan fund, is about to buy the Tampa Bay Lightning. [WBZ]
  • An emergency room nurse from Foxboro shares her stories from her 11-day tip to Haiti to treat earthquake victims. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]
  • Jillian Fennimore of the Cambridge Chronicle has been named “Journalist of the Year” by Suburban Newspapers of America. [Cambridge Chronicle]
  • Is the threat from H1N1 over? [WBZ]
  • Consider this a PSA: Nude Internet pics probably have nothing to do with your job. Hence, NSFW. [StyleList.com]

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  • Christopher

    Justin Barrett's termination was a Good Move but the fish rots at the head:



    http://touchfmboston.blogspot.com/2010/02/kingcast-and-touch-fm-blog-applaud.html



    http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2010/02/kingcast-boston-phoenix-touch-1061-fm.html



    In February, 2009 Dan Conley refused to speak to a former State AAG and newspaper editor who blogged 35 videos of a contentious murder trial in the death of Revere Officer Daniel Talbot. In this YouTube video he put his finger in this black man's face and asked him for "credentials" even though he was aware that Judge Patrick Brady had given the man such credentials to roll video, take audio and still pictures and to provide commentary.



    Mr. Bernstein shed some light on why DA Conley gets so pissy when you challenge him, particularly when he knows you've been a successful trial lawyer. Here's a 2005 Story by Bernstein "The Worst Homicide Squad in the Country."



    (more, much more at links)

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