Long time Globie and editorial page editor Peter Canellos is leaving his post. Why? The last big self-removal from the editorial board was Renee Loth who was sickened over her boss’s endorsement of casinos. She actually thought she worked for people who were on the level. What an education she got.
And now smack in the middle of the Globe’s endorsement of Steve Wynn’s blatant goodfella’s Everett deal in return for big advertising dollars Canellos realized he couldn’t look himself in the mirror every morning if he continued to be one of the well paid and well hidden flacks saying the manure called Wynn’s Everett Casino is actually gold. IMHO
BTW folks, once these people get their grubby hands in our state with a lucrative and powerful casino license they then become a force that politicians have to reckon with. You’s start seeing Wynn executives, their business partners, and lobbyists at every two bit function that use to be held at Anthony’s Pier 4.
Like David Cameron telling Scotland there’s no going back, Massachusetts voters need to know that after Wynn and the boys get their license there’s no going back.
P.S. How about the farce called a hearing the Gaming Commission is conducting over at the Boston Teachers Union Hall right now.
P.S. 2 The commission is made up of two former Cellucci guys with no background close to what is needed. One is a former Springfield city councillor. Then we have Jim McHugh seasoned from the mean streets of South Dakota, Bingham Dana, and the sanctimonious life of a Mass Appeals Court Judge. At least there’s a former N.J. state trooper who worked investigating the Atlantic City scene. She’s the only one I trust but then what do I know? She was a cop so the integrity thing is a coin flip if you know nothing about the person.
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JimC says
Nice catch. He has one of the best journalism jobs in the country. No small thing to leave.
Any idea how old he is? I feel like he”s been around forever, but I might be projecting.
johnk says
Globe offered to “reposition our business for the future” on August 1st.
mike_cote says
SomervilleTom says
He left because John Henry’s “new” Boston Globe is nothing more than a PR front for his baseball team.
The Boston Globe is dead.