Think of Barnicle's predicament. He has to come groveling to a paper he's spent most of his professional career looking down his nose at. I always thought Barnicle's best stories were obvious fabrications. I was wrong, some were plagiarized. What does that say about the Globe's editorial oversight?
We know that the Herald has significantly higher readership on the days when Howie's column appears. Barnicle is in the other days. Wonder if he'll close the gap? I rather doubt it.
My question about Barnicle is: What does he know about whom? This guy must have the goods on some powerful people. His plagerism and creative writing at the Globe were not just a few times but was systematic and common. By all that it is holy he should never have been heard from again and simply faded away into shame and oblivion. And yet- almost immediately he is on the radio after Imus (whom he routinely plagerizes from still!) Then he was at the Daily News in NY! Uhh why? Now he is at the Herald? Who does this guy know? Does he know where some bodies are buried? He is a total waste of a writer and a finger in the wind opportunist. He was so very pro war a year ago- name calling against all those who oppossed the war with glee- now he is anti war and name calling all those who support the war. The man makes me want to vomit.