Herald Doubles Down on Boston Casino Coverage

This is what the Boston Herald lives for.

 

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Our feisty local tabloid devotes nearly four full pages to the casino-industrial complex today.

 

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Corruption! Rampant patronage! Zero accountability!

For the Herald, this deal is the grift that keeps on giving.

Crosstown, by contrast, the Boston Globe has this nothingburger of a story in today’s Metro section:

 

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Aside from some mild finger-wagging by columnist Adrian Walker over Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s ram-rodding this deal through, our stately local broadsheet has had nary a discouraging word about the proposed billion-dollar gambling hell – sorry, hall.

C’mon, Globeniks – get on this stick. Where’s that righteous indignation about gambling? Or even some of your trademark tsk-tsking?

You gonna let the Herald have all the fun?

 

4 Responses to Herald Doubles Down on Boston Casino Coverage

    • Campaign Outsider says:

      That didn’t seem to make the print edition, Mike – at least not according to the e-papers. I’m still operating on the principle that it’s only the print edition that counts. I know – very 19th century.

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  2. They don’t call it the “Boring Broadsheet” for nothing.

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