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Globe a little slow on the local uptake?
By adamg on Tue, 10/11/2005 - 10:31am
Yesterday's Globe had a wild-west story out of Mattapan in which patrons at the BPL branch there had to duck when a bullet came flying through a window. As the story notes:
The shooting was first reported in the Dorchester Reporter.
Yes, it was - last week (read the Reporter account).
Today, the Globe does it again, this time with a report on drunken, rowdy partiers in the North End that I first read about last week on David's Weblog.
Just a couple of aberrations, or is the Globe losing its local edge? I'd ask ace metro columnist Brian McGrory, but he seems awfully busy today sucking his thumb (or doing something even more useless).
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The Globe NE story was
The Globe NE story was written by Cristina Silva, who today also has a story from NH. Maybe she had the NE story ready for Friday, or at least Saturday publishing, but for whatever reason it was held up? Fact checking, perhaps? There is a pretty big number of quotes, good ones, too, in the article and presumably the Globe doesn't want another fiction writer on its news pages, if you get my ever-so-subtle drift.
Yes, but ...
If you have 160 (or 300 or whatever) screaming North End residents in a room complaining about drunken Suffolk students, that sounds like a story that's been, um, brewing, for quite awhile. Where was the Globe coverage last week or the week before?
for that matter...
... where was the Herald's coverage? Or even the Regional Review's? That's the local neighborhood newspaper for the North End, and it hasn't printed a word about this subject so far.