DQM does NewsNight: Edwards and "Rockefeller"--updated!

Yesterday's dubious Globe op-ed

New in the Phoenix: the impossibility of preemptively safe journalism

4 Comments

• Michael Pahre said:

  I think that the "Clark Rockefeller" coverage was excessive in the beginning when it was a kidnapping.  There were four amber alerts around the same time, but this one got far more coverage at first, probably because the victim was a cute blond girl.

  After his identity itself came into scrutiny, however, the coverage has been more appropriate.  But the media circus covering his arrival at Logan and transport to Brighton was over-the-top -- did they really need helicopters overhead for a guy being transported in a police car?

  August 11, 2008 10:12 AM

• aging cynic said:

  Appropriate. Sadly, we haven't yet learned anything about Sandra Boss other than that her judgment and advice were valued at over $100K/MONTH by McKinsey&Co. while she was "married" to Herr Crockefeller. Her clients must be thrilled.(Clark has already disappeared from the Algonquin Club's list of officers on their website, "Clark Who?").

  August 11, 2008 6:01 PM

• Johnny Beans said:

  Sandra Boss remains an unknown entity. There should definitely be more questions in her direction since the fate of a child is at stake. But look back to California...what happened to Ms. Sohus (Linda) and has there been any thought of the possibility that she murdered her husband and then 'disappeared' to Europe? and what will everyone say when 'Mr. Rockefeller' disappears again. After all, he's not being held in a maximum security facility - only in a county jail, in the general population. And he does seem to be a master of alternate identities. Where is the much vaunted homeland 'homeland security' apparatus now? A 17 year old illegal evades detection for 20+ years ..? Give me a break!

  Good luck, Suffolk County Sheriff!

  August 13, 2008 10:55 PM

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