House pest

By ADAM REILLY  |  September 12, 2007

Kenney doesn’t seem to have this — which is why you’ve got to wonder: what happens if he comes across a story that doesn’t fit his good-guy, bad-guy template? What if, to cite one obvious example, he stumbles on something that makes the Binghams or their allies in the tribe look bad? When I asked Walter Brooks, the editor and publisher of CapeCodToday.com, if he thought Kenney would report accordingly, his answer was immediate and unequivocal: “I know he would,” Brooks said. Given Kenney’s own understanding of his role in the casino wars, though, it’s hard to share Brooks’s optimism. Kenney is very good at what he does. But he’s right: he’s not a journalist.

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