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Ted Kennedy lets the Globe know he's still alive - via the pages of the New York Times
By adamg on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 3:52pm
He won't talk to the Globe for its weeklong eulogy, but he will talk to the New York Times:
... He considers unnecessary what his son Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island calls "the premature eulogizing," or what Mr. Biden terms "a bordering on an obituary," that has accompanied his life in recent months.
"Obviously I've been touched and grateful," Mr. Kennedy said in a phone interview Friday from the rented home in Miami where he has spent most of the winter. "Beyond that, I don't really plan to go away soon." ...
Via the Outraged Liberal, who wonders what sort of discussions went on among Globe editors today as they picked up their copies of the Times.
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Three things worth
Three things worth noting:
1) The NYT story doesn't mention the Globe or the Globe's series.
2) Kennedy is writing his own book. and contractually barred from helping the Globe with its competing bio.
3) On Beat the Press Friday, the Globe writers said that Kennedy encouraged his friends/family to talk to the paper, even though he himself couldn't talk to the paper because of his own book deal.
An Idle rant
The Globe is a Trotsyite rag.
Kennedy's premature eulogy
The Kennedy series in the Globe strikes me as exceedingly crass in its timing. He hasn't died nor resigned, so he hasn't left a legacy -- yet! Why devote hundreds of column inches to the topic right now? More justifiable would be a shorter, more focused piece on how Kennedy may be using the sympathy factor to support his healthcare crusade. The Times story doesn't add much light, either, but at least it's shorter.