The recent spanking of the Herald by a jury for knowingly deceiving reasonable people into believing Gloria Fox was trafficking a woman into a state prison to service the prisoners is sicker than you think.
It seems the woman falsely accused of spreading her legs for the incarcerated was actually from a non-profit investigating charges of prisoner abuse. The guards don’t like those kind of things you know.
The trial exposed the nefarious relationship reporters like Jessica Van Slack have with the bullies of law enforcement and the lengths they will go to hurt their enemies.
“No problem guys, based on these reports you just handed me I can legally fabricate a story make this tree-hugging bitch wish she were Monica Lewinski.”
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Really people, are you that stupid? Of course Larry Lucchino was the force behind the Globe’s deserved beat down of Jerry Remy yesterday, IMHO. I’d bet Larry would have made that story appear regardless of who owned the paper.
NESN, the Sox owned cable station, could pay someone less than half of what it pays The Remdog to do the same job. They probably already have someone lined-up that sounds just like him. Sean McDonough/Don Orsillo redux.
The game is on the field and nobody is bigger than the game. Especially someone not in a uniform. This is the opportunity Larry’s been waiting for.
bob-gardner says
Reporters have editors. Editors have publishers. There’s a reason that the Herald is fighting this in court. I doubt that they are just trying to defend one of their lying reporters.
SomervilleTom says
Wasn’t Larry Lucchino an umpire?
JimC says
This guy.
johnk says
any Leslie Nielsen fans out there?
SomervilleTom says
I was attempting bad humor.
It somehow seems more appropriate on an EB3 thread.
JimC says
That story was incredible! It’s hard to imagine an ordinary person could be that much of a screwup and catch that many breaks.
But to your point, I really don’t think so. If Larry wanted Jerry out, the time for that bombshell was in the immediate aftermath of the incident, not two weeks before Opening Day.
johnk says
I think there were ample opportunities to have Remy not return to the booth while he was on leave if they wanted to.
surfcaster says
No Larry.
The Remy story is all system, laid out in an epic, sprawling pile of steaming records, magnified by ongoing disturbing, and finally fatal abuse, and the indifference of a system — it’s a story of broad scope that cried out to be reported as soon as the arrest and court records are summarized in the early reporting.
Easy call to go after it.
What would the hand of Larry add to it? Certainly not access to the records, which takes patience and time. The interviews with the victims and real people, Larry had no hand there, either. That was all the reporter’s excellent work.
Half the people who saw the world series trophy during its legislative tour after the 2004 championship were in the same room with the Jared Remy — he’s not the Red Sox dirty little secret, he’s the judiciary’s.
So many ppl keep talking about how the story points out connections — but the good ol `continued without a finding’ is handed out all day long in the district court house.
Maybe that needs a closer look?
Nothing to do with Larry.
baublehead says
you said, ‘Easy call to go after it…’
I think that’s baloney.
A story like that doesn’t happen, sorry to disappoint you, from digging through files by an aggressive, ambitious reporter. It starts when the reporter picks up the phone because the source is calling him to give him all that research. He picks up the phone, that’s how most of your award winning stories start. They pick up the phone. Ninety percent of these kind of stories are spoon fed to reporters. Interesting that it’s the Globe.
Just like it was interesting how Terry Francona got harpooned in the Globe.
I think ‘ernie’ is spot on.
JimC says
The first half is really more important than the Remy stuff. Recommended.