Is it just me, or was the Boston Globe’s Wednesday op-ed page a bit of a train wreck?
At the top of the page was this:
WHY I SHOULD BE YOUR NEXT SENATOR
Below that appeared short pieces from the three candidates in next Tuesday’s US Senate special election – Massachusetts senator Scott Brown (R-Talk Show), Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley (D-No Talk, No Show), and (Not That) Joe Kennedy (I-Didn’t Get Enough Debate Time).
And below that appeared Joan Vennochi’s column headlined, “Brown’s glossy veneer conceals misleading campaign.”
Representative text:
Strip away Brown’s pretty packaging – his Massachusetts National Guard combat fatigues, his “American Idol’’- contending daughter, his warm and fuzzy ads – and this is what you get.
He is allegedly for health care reform, except he doesn’t support the historic health care reform legislation that is on the brink of passage in Washington and was Kennedy’s life quest.
He supports Roe v. Wade, except that a prominent anti-abortion advocacy group backs him as a “pro-life vote in the Senate.’’
I know it was Vennochi’s turn on the wheel Wednesday, and I’m not suggesting she shouldn’t write what she wants.
But really – is it right to run a hit piece on one particular candidate in those circumstances? Not to mention the Globe’s endorsement of Coakley on the facing page.
You don’t have to be a fan of Scott Brown’s to find this whole thing, well, odd.
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Yeah, it’s the same old “piling on”, but so what? The reality is that the Globe is irrelevant and doesn’t realize it; the editors are still living in their dream world and are legends in their own minds, but nowhere else. Ditto for publications such as Newsweek–does anyone care what they have to say, any more? The only place where word of this new reality hasn’t penetrated is their own offices, and their mindsets.
The Globe, its Editorial Board, and the Op-Ed Editors decry thumbs on the scales, except when they are their thumbs.
The Op-Ed page is where the chin-strokerati get to tell the Globe Editors how much they love the paper’s positions.
If it weren’t so, it would not be The Globe.