Nice Try
by taxi - October 30, 2008 10:50am
An anonymous opinion in today’s T&G certainly leans in the general direction of the kind of outrage I feel towards the Beacon Hill mob. But it fails to convince me that there’s anyone at 20 Franklin Street that really gets it.
They mention Sen (D) Dianne Wilkerson, and make reference to years of “serial legal and ethical entanglements” in this editorial. Yet, I can find only one relevant article before this month that comes up in a search for “Dianne Wilkerson” on the T&G website.
They mention Sen (D) James Marzilli Jr, and a search turns up five articles in July and August. Of course, the big story with Marzilli just evaporates upon the news that he apparently has mental health problems…
They mention Rep (D) John Rogers and Rep (D) Robert Spellane in the same sentence, citing that they are both “under scrutiny for mortgage deals that exude a strong whiff of conflict of interest between their public duties and personal affairs” and yet I find no prior coverage for Rogers, and the only coverage of Spellane just showed up two weeks before the election.
So, after all is said and done, you anonymous pontificators of phony outrage can write all you want about the years and years of corruption and “looking the other way” and “the absence of moral indignation” up on Beacon Hill, but isn’t it time you guys took a look in the mirror? In case you hadn’t noticed, fewer and fewer people are willing to buy this brand of bullshit, month after month, year after year.
And yet I continue to hold out some hope for the future of daily news here in Worcester. I really do. I continue to believe that the fourth estate really can be re-awakened, not only here, but just about anywhere …in the blink of an eye. Those guys just have to figure out who they really are.