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I don't normally advocate violence
By adamg on Wed, 11/02/2005 - 10:48am
But could somebody get Eileen McNamara to pile up about 500 copies of her column today and use them to slap Brian McGrory about the head to show him what a metro columnist at New England's largest newspaper should be writing about instead of sucking his thumb over Theo Epstein?
Johnny agrees and says firing would be too good for McGrory.
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File under "Snap, Oh"
File under "Snap, Oh"
For years in Massachusetts,
For years in Massachusetts, state employees have earned between 20 percent and 50 percent more than their counterparts in the private sector who perform the same human services jobs.
The reason is simple: State workers are unionized, and more than 90 percent of private agencies are not.
The reason is simple, but that's not it. The reason is simply that the state workers are overpaid.
I have to admit I don't get it.
Bloggers lamenting the departure of Theo warrants not one but two roundup posts on this site...whereas McGrory talking about a subject that is affecting Bostonians is "sucking his thumb"? I mean...what's the real difference?
Here's the difference
Nothing wrong with tapping into the local zeitgeist. But McGrory's not really doing that. He's just being lazy. Did he say anything new about Epstein? No. He mouthed platitudes about what a shame it all is - in a column that I would be amazed if it took him more than 40 minutes to write. Yeah, yeah, lots of bloggers wrote about Epstein, too. But they don't get paid a very good salary to fill one of the most coveted spaces in any newspaper - the left column in the metro section.
That's what bugs me about McGrory. He's been pulling this sort of thing for years, whether it's writing about his old family cottage or about covering the governor of Connecticut or devoting an entire column to saying "Gene O'Flaherty sure is skinny" or, yes, filling an entire column with a love note to Terry Francona. As a journalist myself, I'm amazed he can get away with it. As a Globe reader, I'm disgusted that they waste the space, rather than telling me something I don't already know.