Joan Vennochi got a case of the vapors writing today's column, the point of which seems to be that Joe Biden should be ashamed of hi
By adamg - 10/4/09 - 10:44 am
Vennochi goes after "Ernie Boch III," the not-the-car-dealer trying to organize a boycott of Howie Carr's advertisers:
The blogosphere opened up the public conversation to new, thoughtful voices, but it should not provide a shield to hide biases and private agendas.
Oh, excuse me, Miss High and Mighty.
By adamg - 7/24/08 - 8:30 am
So Vennochi writes an entire column on whether the state should throw another one of those no-sales-tax days and then, out of the blue, ends the thing like this:
... What's Patrick really thinking?
Maybe that his friend Barack Obama is going to be president, that he will be going with him to Washington, and that the Massachusetts budget mess will be someone else's problem.
So that's it, then, Joan? Patrick has gotten bored with state government faster than Bill Weld? Or did you just realize on deadline your column on the sales tax was a paragraph short? Or as the Outraged Liberal puts it:
There's a name for stories and columns that praise/criticize an individual for an action that requires group action, then uses the standard political rumor of the day as an explanation for said action.
It's called phoning it in.
By adamg - 3/11/07 - 2:56 pm
Ryan Adams has had an interesting e-mail exchange with the Globe's Joan Vennochi about the intersection of columnists and bloggers (although I question his assertion that colum
By adamg - 8/24/06 - 8:09 am
Joan Vennochi writes that Tom Reilly's rejection of Chris Gabrieli as a running mate because he wouldn't release his tax returns and his selection
By adamg - 8/12/06 - 9:15 am
Because otherwise people might start wondering about a campaign that lies about its involvement in what Blue Mass.
