Mike Barnicle is a fraud and a plagiarist who had to resign from the Boston Globe in shame some ten years ago. His opinion is worth less than zero.
Mike Barnicle forced out at Boston Globe
By Howard Kurtz; Pamela Ferdin
August 20, 1998
Mike Barnicle, the Boston Globe columnist who was suspended early this month, then was asked to resign, then spared from being fired, was forced to quit today after his editors could not confirm the existence of two cancer-stricken boys he wrote about in a moving 1995 column.