You can't keep a good lobbyist down

Dan Kennedy: Finneran embraces the dark side - again, notes his first client is a group that insures bars against lawsuits from drunken patrons who get into car accidents and the like - because they can't get insurance anywhere else:

... So, let's see. A man staggers out of a bar, wraps his car around a telephone pole and is seriously injured. His family sues the bar, claiming the bartender should have known he was drunk and refused to serve him. Finneran the talk-show host rails against the suit, claiming that the driver should take responsibility for his actions and that tort reform is needed to prevent such frivolous lawsuits. And Finneran the lobbyist pockets another check from the organization that stands to benefit from such "reform." Got it. ...

Richard Howe wonders What is WRKO going to do about morning talk show host Tom Finneran?

... Monitor the situation? Wow, I'll bet that really scared the man who pleaded guilty to federal obstruction of justice. ...

Brian: Especially bold is Finneran's assertion he will attempt to bore Boston for years to come with his awful attempt at talk radio.

The Outraged Liberal is just as concerned about a quote from the director of Northeastern's journalism school about the conflict, because it seems to equate what Finneran does on air with actual journalism:

... To even put "serious news organization" and "talk radio host" in the same sentence suggests a problem with concepts that I would not expect of someone who runs a pretty good journalism school.