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Monday, October 06, 2003
It's not what's in his heart,
it's what comes tumbling out of his mouth. The Globe's
Adrian
Walker has a smart column
this morning on suspended WEEI Radio (AM 850) host John
Dennis.
Dennis wants us to know that he's
not a racist. Well, I've never met the guy, and have no idea whether
he's a racist. But what he said was racist, and that's the
issue.
Cohost Gerry Callahan is on the air
today, despite the revelation on WGBH-TV's Greater Boston on
Friday that Callahan was in on the so-called joke.
Meanwhile, 'EEI hasn't changed the
Dennis
& Callahan website
since this all began. The motto: "Home of Repeat Offenders."
Nice.
Many zeroes. I've always
enjoyed Michael
Wolff's media column in
New York magazine.
But I doubt I'll ever be able to
read it again without remembering that Wolff is making
$450,000
a year.
Call and response.
Globe ombudsman Christine
Chinlund has a meaty
analysis of whether the paper gave former State Senate president Tom
Birmingham a fair chance of responding to charges that he'd
blown
his budget -- thus putting
his successor, Bob Travaglini, in an awkward position.
Chinlund rarely lets her colleagues
have it, but in this case her conclusion is clear: what Birmingham
had to say would have cast the story in a different light; and though
he had been difficult about making himself available, in the end,
reporter Raphael Lewis didn't try hard enough.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
