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Herald columnist Joe Fitzgerald dies, 79

By adamg on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 11:52am

Fitzgerald wrote for the Herald for 40 years, starting in sports and later shifting to opinion.

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By Kaz on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 12:15pm.

Joe Fitzgerald was an asshole.

Now he's dead.

The End

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By JohnAKeith on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 2:15pm.

You're comment doesn't change how I feel about him but it sure changes how I feel about you.

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By Kaz on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 5:26pm.

Be sure to write a short story about how you feel after I'm dead.

Here, feel free to revisit one of Joe's chestnuts:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2013/06/27/fitzgerald-immoral-decision-stif...

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By emac on Sun, 03/10/2024 - 12:47pm.

Katz’s response is pretty good.

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By JohnAKeith on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 12:30pm.

I must have been using voice to text.

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By deselby on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 12:16pm.

At one point he was a cheery counterpoint to Howie, with various local hero and good news columns, but he got crabby in later years. Maybe, like with so many others, it was after 9/11.

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By anon_wd on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 12:31pm.

I mostly recall the Saturday sports column he had with the "Cakes are cookin'" line for birthdays

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By Mark- on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 12:49pm.

I used to like Joe’s columns on the sports pages. He told warm human interest stories that made you like the athletes he was writing about, and the person who was writing the stories as well. When he switched to politics, he was just another hack writing biased and moralizing opinions, with little reasoning more than “as everybody knows, my beliefs are just common sense.” RIP Joe, I’ll miss the writer you used to be.

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By Paul Buresh on Sat, 03/09/2024 - 2:17pm.

Silence may be a more compassionate response in death than swords.

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By Don't Panic on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 2:26am.

I haven't read the Boston Herald since the 1990's when Howie Carr did a complete turnaround from being a populist muckraking columnist to a conservative Drive-Time Shock Jock on WRKO which reflected in his work at the Herald.

I always thought Joe Fitzgerald was the "Editor in Chief" of The Herald. I'm sure I read and enjoyed his stuff pre-Howie conversion.

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By Hardy Har Har on Mon, 03/11/2024 - 6:45pm.

Along with a lack of columns supporting Cardinal Law.

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