Eagan takes on the Globe
No love lost as Boston newspaper fights for survival
An unseemly row has broken out in Boston just as the future of the Boston Globe, one of the country’s most historic big city papers, is in jeopardy, with the owners seeking wage cuts to keep the paper alive.
Just when journalists, even those working for competitors, might be expected to rally round, one of the city’s most prominent columnists, Margery Eagan of the rival Boston Herald, has stuck the knife in, accusing the Globe of being a gentleman’s club where a laissez-faire attitude has reigned for years.
The “libidinous” newsroom was dubbed ‘the Love Boat’, she claims, and “not even the guy who impregnated a cub reporter got canned”. Booze, laziness, extramarital affairs – bosses turned a blind eye to all of it, she claims.
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