As a columnist, he provides his readers with poignant must-read and must-share columns that fuse his blunt and discerning observations. a sad reminder for Mlida Arredondo: the news on TV, stories in the paper, speeches of Barack Obama and others who talk about a war that seems to have lasted so long and affected so many lives, those lost as well as those left behind. Did your son like the Marine Corps? I ask her. In June, Patricia Smith was forced to quit after admitting she had fabricated characters in four of her columns. This site uses cookies to enhance functionality and performance. When your perception is that you provide news people can trust, then you really have to have a squeaky-clean image. La Camera, if you read this rest assured, many of us will stop contributing if Barnicle is hired. RadioBoston host David Boeri? He If thats all there is, then he brings absolutely nothing to the table. Mike Barnicle on Corporal Nicholas Xiarhos and his forgotten war. 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The pugnacious writer, who has become an institution in Boston over the course of a 25-year career at the Globe, told TV station WCVB that his resignation was "the best thing for the paper.". Mike Barnicles articles and commentary have also been published in Time magazine, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, ESPN The Magazine, Grantland, and Esquire, among others. He pushed it. That is an impossible venture. The firm offers 100 years of renowned regulatory expertise, sophisticated litigation and transactional practices, and leading multidisciplinary offerings in the life sciences and financial services industries. War is a grim reality and with us still. His obligation was up in May., But he was recalled in March, Gary Sklaver added. Was his a life sentence? Its all well and good to say you need to build a new audience for tomorrow, but its not much good if you kill your station off today in the process.That said, I still think there are plenty of old-timers with a helluva lot more talent, and less baggage, than Barnicle. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. They held children on their shoulders, American flags and homemade posters in their grasp. But the big one is 9/11. Paul LaCameras point about giving Barnicle a break after 10 years is a classic non-sequitur. WebVeteran journalist Mike Barnicle has interviewed and profiled countless political and business leaders, union, government and military officials, athletes, celebrities and authors during Im of a mixed mind about this. The question is whether he could ever be talked into coming back in a commentator capacity, as opposed to the full-scale, large-staff production he had before. Unmasking Phony `Vietnam Vets' / Fakes big factor in negative A check of hospital records showed no indication of a black child dying in the month Barnicle recounted. The Barnicle bombshell comes six weeks after Globe columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign when she admitted she had fabricated all or part of four columns. Mike Barnicle has a remarkable gift?George Carlin has a remarkable gift. To a journalist, credibility is like virginity; it is only lost once.Barnicles work over the past year has been based not in reporting, which is the foundation of column-writing, but in making smart-ass comments for such atrocities as the Imus radio program, his own mail-it-in gabfest on WTKK and whatever cable chat show needs a few glib remarks during those infuriating pseudo-debate segments.Let us not attach any sort of journalistic credibility to cable televisions quest for a vast arsenal of glib talking heads to toss barbs at each other in discussion of the hot issue of the hour. Listen here: https://barnicle.969fmtalk.mobi/2008/11/10/111008-veterans-day.aspx, Barnicles View, with Mike Barnicle, Imus in the Morning, Monday-Wednesday-Friday, 6:55a & 8:55a, 8/22/08: Mike recommends the book Generation Kill by Evan Wright, Listen here: https://barnicle.969fmtalk.mobi/2008/08/22/82208-book-generation-kill.aspx, 8/18/08: A tragic story from this past week of two service men from Cape Cod killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, Listen here: https://barnicle.969fmtalk.mobi/2008/08/18/81508-nation-still-at-war.aspx. But for the past several days its been interesting to scan the landscape of different views surrounding American Sniper, the Clint Eastwood-Bradley Cooper film about the life of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who grew up in Texas and served his country thats us as in the United States of Americaduring four tours in Iraq, a war that has managed to mangle two nations, ours and theirs. By Dan Kennedy The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions. Mike Barnicle - The Daily Beast Earlier this month, Storin demanded Barnicle's resignation after discovering that he used jokes from a book by George Carlin without attribution in an August 2 column. Its good to pick the right parents. He made his money in commercial television, so now he is going to bring his Midas touch to public radio? The last time I talked to him was Christmas Day, a few days before he was killed. "That was the second component. Mike Barnicle is a veteran print and broadcast journalist recognized for his street-smart, straightforward style honed over nearly four decades in the field. Paul La Camera, general manager of WBUR Radio (90.9 FM), e-mails Media Nation about a recent report by Adam Reilly at ThePhoenix.com that he may bring former Boston Globe and sometime Boston Herald columnist Mike Barnicle to the public-radio powerhouse to do commentary: I write this as an individual with a personal history in the matter and not in any way on behalf of WBUR.