With all the blogging about articles that I see in the Boston Globe, you’d be excused for thinking that this is one of those blogs focused on a single news organization, but it isn’t. However, there is such a blog: Squaring the Boston Globe. It takes an in-depth look at the Globe and its news coverage, especially the biases found in what they produce.
I recommend it not just because of the nice things he says about my blog, but also because he provides an interesting look at other news items I don’t cover, yet which should be of interest to those who read the Globe or other New York Times products. For example, he provides the interesting and welcome news that anti-Catholic op-ed columnist Tom Oliphant is no longer employed at the newspaper.
Most recently, he blogs Eileen McNamara’s column in which she makes groundless accusations against those protesting Mayor Menino and against the local bishops based on ... nothing but her own conviction that the conspiracy must be true, apparently.
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Nice, but it’s time somebody said this.
Carol McKinley gave the Globe a weapon and they used it.
It sickens me. Sorry, but that’s the truth as I see it.
Nice blog, and it’s about time, but no. You don’t—or shouldn’t—judge people as “evil.” Deeds? Yes. People? No.
Again. Nice blog. Bad example. Sorry.
I’m not sure what you mean Kelly. Where is Carol mentioned in that blog?
In the first paragraph.
But I was referring more to the McNamara story itself.
I’m confused, too by your reference to Thomas Oliphant’s not being a Globe employee anymore. I couldn’t find the reference on the blog, and his op-ed ran in today’s edition.
He links to the blog of the Globe’s ombudsman who reveals that Oliphant is one of the employees taking the buyout option and leaving during the downsizing.
Found it…thanks!
I didn’t even know there was a new ombudsman. One final thing and I’ll leave you alone. Did you know that, for some reason, the link to Harry’s site doesn’t open a new window? That’s unusual in your site.
Thanks again.
That’s the new software. They made it an option rather than default. It’s good manners not to force people to open a new window, I hear, even though I want to do that usually.