Let's not lose sight of the fact that the tunnels still suck

Real or faked? John Daley ponders the possibly alleged ceiling memo, including Howie Carr's Globe bashing, says it's all great fun but adds:

... But there's also the public interest, apparently lost in all the posturing and foaming at the mouth. Maybe the memo is real. Maybe not. It's an important question for how blame and liability will be assigned. Nothing happening in either newspaper now is contributing to getting the answer. ...

Dan Kennedy asks questions and takes names, saying the Globe should have, at the least, given Modern Continental some more time to respond to the initial story:

... Yet there are times when a reporter is absolutely convinced that he's right, and that giving a source too much time to respond will risk diminishing the impact of the story. Sometimes, for tactical reasons, a news organization will give a source almost no time to respond so that he can't spin it ahead of time. I've been in that situation myself, and it's something that has to be thought through with the top editors. Always, the overriding concern is: Is there any way we could be proven wrong on this? Obviously Murphy, Baron and company didn't think there was. And they got burned. ...

My standard newspaper disclosure.